(TNS) — There’s a new $1-billion-a-year company in Dallas-Fort Worth. Plano software firm Tyler Technologies closed out 2019 with $1.086 billion in revenue, a 16% jump from the previous year. Its customers are schools, cities and counties, and the federal government. Tyler’s ascent was the subject of a Dallas Morning News story last summer when it ranked 71st among Dallas-Fort Worth’s largest public companies. Its executives predicted then that the 5,500-employee company would break the $1...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] DALLAS — XPO Logistics Inc. will lay off 304 workers at an AllianceTexas distribution center in April, according to a notice filed with the Texas Workforce Commission. An XPO customer is taking over the distribution center operations and is interviewing displaced workers for jobs with it, said a letter from Richard Valitutto, XPO’s senior vice president and general counsel. The customer is DJO, an orthopedic device maker that...

At a press conference in Washington this morning, Sen. Chuck Schumer continued his crusade against Facebook billionaire Eduardo Saverin, who moved to Singapore and reduced his tax bill on the value of his shares. Schumer accused Saverin, who renounced his U.S. citizenship last year, of giving up his American passport for the sole purpose of avoiding taxes. “We’re not going to let him get away with it,” Schumer said. “Saverin has turned his back on the country that welcomed him, kept him safe,...

Much is made of women's lack of engagement in basic investing, including investing for retirement. Reasons given range from a lack of confidence to a congenital fear of risk to a simple lack of information—when women gather, they apparently don't talk about their financial futures. But here's a reason that may be too simple to get much attention: It could be that women invest less than men because they don't have as much money. A new report from the Employment Benefits Research Institute...

The good news coming out of this year's "New Retirement Mindscape City Pulse Index," an annual survey conducted by Ameriprise Financial Services, is that women are more confident about their retirement prospects: two thirds of affluent women consider themselves confident or somewhat confident about being comfortable in retirement. The bad news, said Suzanna de Baca, vice president of wealth strategies at Ameriprise, is that women "shouldn't be feeling this good." In the survey of 10,000...