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Before signing a long-term lease, entrepreneur Musa Ato likes to test the market for his high-end men's apparel with pop-up stores. He tried it first downtown with his League of Rebels shop and is now doing the same at a new North Austin...

Tesla Inc. may partner with restaurants and convenience-store chains in hopes of building Supercharger stations for its electric cars that look more like conventional gas stations, with upscale food, drinks, bathrooms and lounge areas. Appearing Sept....

CodeNext is Austin's far-reaching update to land-use and development codes — but how the changes will play out on a block-to-block level is sometimes lost in heated discussions about affordability, gentrification and construction roadblocks. Just like...

Days after Donald Trump’s surprise election victory, President Barack Obama privately pulled aside Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a conference in Peru, where he asked the young billionaire to take the threat of fake news and misinformation on the...

Target Corp. will raise its minimum hourly wage to $11 in October and has pledged to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour by the end of 2020. Target (NYSE: TGT), which announced earlier this month that it would hire 100,000 seasonal workers for the...

Auto-insurance comparison startup The Zebra set the year's record for single venture-capital round total funding with $40 million, led by Accel Partners. As usual, tech dominates the roundup — but another food company made the list.
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Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed Kent Sullivan, a partner at Jackson Walker LLP, as Texas' new commissioner of insurance. Sullivan is leaving Jackson Walker, which he joined in 2015, to take on the role. He served as co-chairman of the law firm’s...

Austin's real gross domestic product — the value of all the goods and services that come out of the five-county area — grew from $119.9 billion in 2015 to $125.8 billion last year. That was an increase of 4.9 percent. That was second in the nation for...

Austin hotels crowd the top of a list of the best financial performers in the state. But industry consultancy Source Strategies Inc. thinks there's still plenty of room to grow in the Texas capital.
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The company has experience with a wide range of construction projects, from beer breweries to office towers to corporate plazas. Now it's got some fresh new digs in the Alamo City.
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