[IMAGE]	 	[IMAGE]	[IMAGE]	


             [IMAGE] [IMAGE]   [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Upgrades  [IMAGE] DownGrades  [IMAGE] Coverage Initiated  [IMAGE] Coverage Reiterated  [IMAGE] Stock Splits  [IMAGE] Buybacks  [IMAGE] Dividends  [IMAGE] Pos Pre-Announce  [IMAGE] Neg Pre-Announce  [IMAGE] Pos Surprises  [IMAGE] Neg Surprises  [IMAGE] Earnings Revisions  [IMAGE] IPO - Lockup Periods  [IMAGE] IPO - Latest Pricing  [IMAGE] IPO - Quite Periods  [IMAGE] IPO - Postponements  [IMAGE] IPO - Withdrawals  [IMAGE] IPO - Latest Filings     [IMAGE]   [IMAGE]   [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]  [IMAGE] Unsubscribe  [IMAGE] Update  my Membership / Profile  [IMAGE] Forgot  Username / Password  [IMAGE] Add  / Edit Alerts  [IMAGE] View  My Alerts   [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE]   [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]    [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] 	  As requested, your News Alert for TXN  follows from EquityAlert.com.     Vortex Partners Appoints Semiconductor and Wireless Industry Leader, John Scarisbrick as Venture Partner   DALLAS, Oct 29, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Vortex Partners, an early stage Venture Capital firm that focuses on telecom and technology investing, today announced John Scarisbrick has joined the firm as a Venture Partner. Most recently, Mr. Scarisbrick was Senior Vice President at Texas Instruments, responsible for TI's Application Specific Processor (ASP) business which included the Company's Digital Signal Processor (DSP), Wireless, Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Scalable Processor ARChitecture (SPARC), and Broadband businesses worldwide from 1996 to 2000. Under Mr. Scarisbrick's leadership, TI grew the ASP business from $2.5 billion to $5.2 billion in annual revenues. Earlier in his career, Mr. Scarisbrick also led the team that created TI's current leading business, the DSP, growing it to breakeven, then profitability and then the first $100M in annual revenues. Prior to running the ASP business, Mr. Scarisbrick was President of Texas Instruments Europe. Mr. Scarisbrick currently serves on the Boards of ARM Holdings in Cambridge, England, the leading global microprocessor architecture Intellectual Property Company.   "While at TI, John managed our DSP-based businesses that focused on many of the same markets as our TI Ventures program, said Madison Pedigo, Manager, TI Ventures. John made significant contributions to TI's venture capital program, and we look forward to working with him and the other Vortex Partners as we continue to focus on exciting new markets for TI DSPs."   "We are extremely excited to bring on John Scarisbrick as our first Venture Partner; John combines superb and proven skills of leadership and management with the insight to identify and market disruptive technologies like the DSP," said Victor Liu, General Partner of Vortex. "We are certain that John will add immediate value to our firm, to our portfolio companies and to the Venture Industry in general."   About Vortex Partners, LP   Vortex Partners is an early stage Venture Capital firm based in Dallas, Texas. Vortex is currently investing from their Vortex Corporate Development Fund, a $50M fund that focuses on being the first institutional capital on startup opportunities that build upon disruptive technologies.   For more information, call (214) 849-9806 or visit www.vortexpartners.com .   MAKE YOUR OPINION COUNT -  Click Here                http://tbutton.prnewswire.com/prn/11690X66819926  SOURCE Vortex Partners, LP   CONTACT:          Chris O'Neill of Vortex Partners, LP, +1-214-849-9817, or                   coneill@vortexpartners.com  URL:              http://www.vortexpartners.com  http://www.prnewswire.com  Copyright (C) 2001 PR Newswire.  All rights reserved.  -0-   KEYWORD:          Texas INDUSTRY KEYWORD: CPR                   TLS SUBJECT CODE:     PER    [IMAGE]    ***IMPORTANT NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER REGARDING THIS COURTESY EMAIL***   At your request, as a subscriber to our service, this email alert is being sent to you as a courtesy and is for information purposes only. We are a financial news re-distributor. We are not an investment advisory and do not purport to tell or suggest which companies you should monitor or which securities you should purchase or sell.   In addition to the information regarding the company you are monitoring (the "Monitored Company"), this email contains advertisements describing products, services or companies for which we receive fees from the advertising companies. In the case of Cybertrader, distribution of this advertisement forms a component of a content exchange agreement with RealTimeTraders.com, Inc. We reserve the right to sell all or part of these shares at anytime, either before, during or after the advertisement period.   In addition, not withstanding our policy of prohibiting employees from buying or selling securities of an advertising company for a period of 20 days following dissemination of the advertisement, we may not be able to effectively monitor our employees to ensure compliance with the same. Consequently, there may be sales and/or purchases of such securities by our employees prior to, during and immediately following the dissemination of the advertisement.   Please note that (1) this email may not contain the full text of the press release issued by, or the research or other reports regarding, the Monitored Company; and (2) the text of the advertisement, the press release and/or reports were obtained from third party sources and were not written, generated or edited by us; accordingly, we make no representations or give any assurance as to the accuracy or completeness, nor have we conducted any independent investigations of, the disclosures regarding the subject matter of such releases and reports.   Please note that links to the advertising company and/or Monitored Company are provided for your convenience. We assume no obligation for the content of such sites.   All information contained herein should be independently verified by you with the advertising company or with Monitored Company or any other sources you prefer.   [THIS IS ONLY A SUMMARY OF, AND IS QUALIFIED IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REFERENCE TO, THE "EQUITYALERT SUBSCRIBER AGREEMENT AND DISCLAIMER." PLEASE VISIT http://www.equityalert.com/home/disclaim.asp  FOR ACCESS TO OUR COMPLETE DISCLAIMER]        	  [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE]   [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE]  [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Stock  Quote [IMAGE]   [IMAGE] Stock  Chart [IMAGE]   [IMAGE] Covered  Calls  [IMAGE]   [IMAGE] Company  Profile [IMAGE]   [IMAGE] [IMAGE]  [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE]   [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Option  Details  [IMAGE]   [IMAGE] Black  - Scholes [IMAGE]     [IMAGE]  Power Option PLUS Logo    [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE]    [IMAGE]