Houston Business Journal News

Commil USA LLC has secured a $3.7 million patent infringement verdict against technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO)

Shares of energy construction firm Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. were up nearly four percent in trading Friday after the company announced it had been awarded a $280 million project and would initiate a share buyback program over the next year. (OXY) (CBI)

The top chief financial officers in the Houston region were honored Friday at the fourth annual Best CFOs of the Year event presented by the Houston Business Journal.

Pelican Builders Inc. has officially opened Highland Tower, a 16-story condo building that features 92 luxury units.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP said Friday it has closed on its buy of a 50 percent stake in Petrohawk Energy Corp’s natural gas gathering and treating business in the Haynesville Shale for $921 million in cash. (KMP) (HK)

The Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metropolitan area gained 2,700 nonagricultural jobs in April to pull the unemployment rate down to 8.4 percent, the Texas Workforce Commission reported Friday.

TechRadium Inc. has been awarded a contract by the Northeast Kansas Regional Homeland Security Council to deploy its IRIS technology to the region's 23 counties.

Six local rock bands comprised of chief executive officers and employees of Houston-area businesses performed May 20 at the House of Blues in the fourth-annual Houston Business Journal Battle of the Business Bands, with OGRE taking home the top prize.

Forty of the city’s accomplished up-and-coming leaders who excel at their jobs and in the local community were honored May 20 at the second annual 40 Under 40 Awards.

Three Houston woman-owned businesses were named to the Top 50 Fastest Growing Women-led companies by the Women Presidents' Organization and American Express Open.