http://www.post-gazette.com/businessnews/ All Business, Auto News en-us Copyright 2012, post-gazette.com. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 08:39:33 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208530-28.stm?cmpid=business.xml After riding among a caravan of bright blue bikes up Oakland's O'Hara Street Thursday, University of Pittsburgh senior Micah Toll said he wasn't surprised by the attention from onlookers. Especially considering that they were gliding up the inclined roadway at about 15 mph without pedaling. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 08:25:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208524-28.stm?cmpid=business.xml A commercial made for the Doritos "Crash the Super Bowl" contest has won $1 million for its creator -- but it wasn't the one made by a Saxonburg native. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:10:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208529-28-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml LOS ANGELES Mirabelle Vargas, 29, winds her way through the open-air stalls in downtown Los Angeles' bustling Santee Alley, hunting for Victoria's Secret underwear. Or at least undies with a tag that says Victoria's Secret. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:10:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208525-28.stm?cmpid=business.xml Sarris Candies' landmark retail candy store in Canonsburg will remain closed for about a month after last week's fire, but candy orders and deliveries to outside sellers continue uninterrupted. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:09:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208527-28.stm?cmpid=business.xml Also in today's headlines: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208631-96-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml Stephen Wolfram, a 52-year-old scientist, software designer and entrepreneur, tends to go his own way -- often with noteworthy results. He published his first physics paper at 15, earned his Ph.D. from Caltech at 20 and two years later won a MacArthur prize. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208545-298.stm?cmpid=business.xml Downtown-based Education Management Corp. has argued in court filings that a 2011 policy change by the Department of Education proves that EDMC didn't previously break rules for compensating college recruiters. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 22:14:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208489-100.stm?cmpid=business.xml Sarris Candies' landmark retail store in Canonsburg will remain closed for about a month after last week's fire, but candy orders and deliveries to outside sellers continue uninterrupted. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 17:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208488-100.stm?cmpid=business.xml C. Fred Fetterolf, a longtime civic leader who was the retired president of Alcoa, died Sunday from complications due to a stroke. He was 83. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:53:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208018-28.stm?cmpid=business.xml Joining a research consortium can benefit large and small companies, especially in areas in which a business believes it is at a competitive disadvantage. A research consortium is a cooperative arrangement among groups or institutions to conduct research into a particular science or technology that is of interest to all the parties. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208460-96-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml Lots of people love their cellphones. Facebook, so far, is not a big fan. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208461-96-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml PARIS -- European activists who participated in American Internet protests last month learned that there was political power to be harnessed on the Web. Now they are putting that knowledge to use in an effort to defeat new global rules for intellectual property. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208462-96-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml BERLIN -- As Wall Street prepares for a record, multibillion-dollar initial stock sale from Facebook, the social networking site, a meeting with the potential to shape the economics of the deal was set to take place Monday in Vienna. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1207944-348.stm?cmpid=business.xml Chris Bell, 25, was named to Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 list, along with more famous names like LeBron James and actor Jonah Hill, Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck and actress Chloe Moretz. The Carnegie Mellon graduate describes himself as a game artist with formal training in game and graphic design. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208007-96-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A Teaneck, N.J., shoemaker has joined with a California technology company to create a shoe that uses GPS technology to record where a wearer walks -- and send alerts to caregivers if someone dealing with Alzheimer's disease or dementia wanders away and gets lost. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208008-28-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml Ever drop your tablet or cell phone and end up surprised that the glass didn't break? TechMan, who tended to drop so many things that his mom often called him "doppich" (Pennsylvania Dutch for "clumsy"), has wondered about cell phone toughness. The answer is Gorilla Glass, developed especially for mobile electronics. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208025-28-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208027-318-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml People on the move Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208032-28.stm?cmpid=business.xml The railroad industry is picking up steam again, after losing ground decades ago to the nation's trucking industry. And Pittsburgh's expertise and history in the business -- Andrew Carnegie and the city's other industrialists needed good ways to move their steel a century ago -- has put the region on track to benefit from rail's resurgence. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208033-28.stm?cmpid=business.xml J.C. Penney is reinventing its retail stores with a fresh look and a new marketing strategy it calls "fair and square pricing." Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208034-28-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml The rampant discourse over the nation's economic future took a back seat to some more important forecasts recently as fractious factions faced off over who had the superior groundhog on Groundhog Day. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208349-185-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml North Windham, Vt. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208350-185-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml TESTED 2011 Mazda RX-8 Grand Touring Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208351-185-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml WHEN Japanese cars and trucks began arriving in the United States in earnest during the 1970s, they were widely seen as disposable. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12035/1208181-28-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml The monthly unemployment report contained undeniably good news Friday, but with bad statistics dappled in like dandelions in a lawn. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment was down to 8.3 percent for January from 8.5 percent in December, the lowest it has been since February 2009. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 16:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12035/1208184-84.stm?cmpid=business.xml WASHINGTON -- Veterans who want to work as police officers and firefighters could get some help from the White House if Congress signs on to $5 billion in funding to spur the hiring of emergency responders. President Barack Obama on Friday offered a glimpse of some of the spending priorities he intends to lay out in his Feb. 13 budget address. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 11:44:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12035/1208051-28-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml A health advocacy group is questioning Pennsylvania's early designs for its public health insurance exchange, the statewide insurance policy clearinghouse mandated as part of the federal government's 2010 health care overhaul. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12035/1208053-28-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml ST. LOUIS -- For anyone who loves a good steak, a juicy burger or a nice Sunday roast, these are anxious times. Prices for beef, which have been climbing for months, hit a record high in December -- an average of $5 a pound -- and analysts predict they could climb 5 to 8 percent higher this year. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12035/1208054-28.stm?cmpid=business.xml Also in today's headlines: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12035/1208058-53.stm?cmpid=business.xml For the former Allegheny County morgue, it no longer will be about corpses but habeas corpus. The county plans to convert the historic 110-year-old building, once a place for autopsies and tragic endings, into offices for its law department. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12035/1208212-96-0.stm?cmpid=business.xml BRUSSELS -- European governments, supported by the top justice official in the European Union, are pressing Google to halt coming changes to its privacy policies while they investigate the implications for personal data protection. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500