SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott gave an update Monday on the coronavirus efforts going on Texas. 

AUSTIN, Texas, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Luminex Corporation today announced 1(st) quarter 2020 revenues of just over $90 million, up approximately 10% over the 1(st) quarter of 2019 and approximately 8% above the top end of its previously communicated 1(st) quarter revenue guidance range of $82 to $84 million. Highlights include:

HOUSTON, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Salient Midstream & MLP Fund (the "Fund") (NYSE: SMM) provided today a summary of unaudited statement of assets and liabilities and announced Net Asset Value (NAV) as of March 31, 2020.

DALLAS, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Bottle Rocket, a leading digital consultancy announced the formal launch of its Product Growth Practice. This announcement solidifies Bottle Rocket's continued commitment to evolving its services and offerings in conjunction with client and industry demands. Over the years, Bottle Rocket has built over 450 mission-critical digital and mobile experiences for its clients. With end-customer expectations shifting almost daily, it is now more important than ever that Bottle Rocket helps their clients drive continuous product improvements in order to achieve business goals.

HOUSTON, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- BBVA USA today announced its commitment of more than $3.7 million to support organizations that are providing community support in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The funds are earmarked for a combination of community support, including a distribution of $1 million in rapid response funding.

LONGVIEW, Texas — The Longview VA clinic will remain closed Tuesday for cleaning after multiple confirmed cases of COVID-19 at the clinic.

DALLAS, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the current health crisis, Kimberly-Clark and its trusted global brands have announced a series of cash and product donations through the Kimberly-Clark Foundation to help support COVID-19 relief efforts around the world.

HOUSTON, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Meriplex, a managed IT and SD-WAN solutions provider that securely powers enterprise organizations, announces its partnership with iboss, the leading provider of cloud native Secure Access Service Edge ("SASE") to organizations and their employees secure access to the Internet on any device, from any location.

DALLAS, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The coronavirus (COVID-19) has had a significant impact on healthcare at home providers' ability to see or care for patients, and the much-publicized lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) is a very real issue, according to findings of a survey conducted by healthcare technology leader Axxess.

HOUSTON, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- As COVID-19 continues to spread and affect more Texans each day, Direct Energy has pledged an additional $100,000 to their Neighbor-to-Neighbor program to further support relief efforts for Texas customers, bringing our total commitment $600,000. Funds are distributed to 32 community action agencies across the state.

DALLAS, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) will webcast its first quarter 2020 earnings conference call on Tuesday, April 21, at 3:30 p.m. Central time. Rafael Lizardi, senior vice president and chief financial officer, and Dave Pahl, vice president and head of Investor Relations, will discuss TI's financial results and answer questions from the investor audience.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- BidPrime Inc. today announced the launch of a fully customizable email template utility that allows users of the company's proprietary software and data-mining technology for the real-time gathering of publicly sourced government bids, RFPs and specifications to configure incoming alerts in over 1,250 different style and presentation preferences.

ARLINGTON, Texas, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Agora Data is pleased to announce the release of its newest BHPH dealer focused feature, AgoraInsights.

HOUSTON, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Mattress Firm, the nation's largest specialty bedding retailer, has partnered with Protect-A-Bed, a SureFit Company to donate 10,000 pillows to healthcare professionals who are fighting on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. The company will donate 1,000 pillows per day beginning today, April 6 through April 15.

DALLAS, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce that Phillip Philbin, Jamie McDole and Michael Karson have joined the Firm's Dallas office as Partners in the Intellectual Property Group. These trial attorneys have a combined 60 years of expertise, including cases involving some of the highest profile companies in the country, and proven ability to deliver successful outcomes for clients seeking to protect high-value IP assets.

DALLAS, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- OutMatch, a talent intelligence platform that helps companies hire and develop great employees, today announced the launch of its free development assessment to help organizations understand how effectively their leaders can navigate through a crisis and to identify areas where they need supplemental development and training.

DALLAS, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sixty percent of pet owners are female, 75% have a household net worth greater than $220,000, and 77% are 50 years of age or older, according to a new study by Infogroup.

DALLAS, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The coronavirus has taken many lives and affected almost everyone across the globe. Many people have been laid off and some fear that their jobs will not return. The U.S. economy has nearly ground to a halt and politicians do not agree on the next best steps. We are in unprecedented global whitewater, where even the experts are operating on sparse data, note authors and executive coaches Gail M. McDonald and Marilyn Bushey.

DALLAS, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Gimborn USA, a subsidiary of H. von H Gimborn GmbH headquartered in Germany, built up the US team. Gimborn is launching functional pet treats this summer.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leading provider of silicon, software and solutions for a smarter, more connected world, announced today that due to the emerging public health impact of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, pandemic, the location of its 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (Annual Meeting) has been changed. The Annual Meeting will be held in a virtual meeting format only via live webcast available at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/SLAB2020. As previously announced, the Annual Meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, at 9:00 a.m. Central Time. To be admitted to the Annual Meeting and to ask questions, stockholders must enter the control number found on their proxy card, voting instruction form or notice previously received.

SCURRY, Texas, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Treehouse, an Addiction Campuses mental and behavioral health treatment facility is now providing Telehealth for Texas residents with substance use disorder. At a time when many people are restricted from travel and social distancing is the new normal, Telehealth enables patients to readily access a psychologist or therapist in real-time from the privacy of their own home.

HOUSTON, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- McDermott International, Inc. today announced it successfully achieved substantial completion of Entergy Louisiana, LLC's Lake Charles Power Station, a combined-cycle gas power station in Lake Charles, Louisiana. This milestone means the plant has now been turned over to the owner and can begin commercial operations.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- SparkCognition, a leading industrial AI company, has joined a group of businesses to produce face shields and prototype ventilators using industrial 3D printers, which will be donated to COVID-19 ATX Exchange, an initiative started by Dell Medical School at UT Austin to connect community needs with solutions. This initiative comes as a response to a national shortage threat of medical equipment meant to treat patients diagnosed with COVID-19 and protect healthcare workers. Additionally, the company has donated a significant amount of its compute resources to Folding@Home (F@h), a crowdsourcing project to research COVID-19, with the goal to discover the virus's vulnerabilities.

DALLAS, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:J) was selected by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to provide agency-wide cybersecurity support services for its 18,000-person workforce. A critical component of the U.S. economy, the USPTO serves as the issuing authority for all U.S. intellectual property rights for patents and trademarks - fostering innovation, competitiveness and job growth across the nation. Additionally, USPTO is a member of the five largest IP offices in the world (the IP5), which together hold at least 80% of the world's patent applications.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its ARIES(®) SARS-CoV-2 Assay for rapid detection of the virus that causes COVID-19. The assay runs on the ARIES(®) System, an FDA-cleared, sample-to-answer, automated, on-demand molecular diagnostic platform. The system is capable of running up to 144 tests per day, requiring no specialty training and minimal human interaction.