Business Features

  • Tooth Fairy inflation: Price of a tooth nears $4

    NEW YORK – Days of finding a quarter under your pillow are long gone. The Tooth Fairy no longer leaves loose change.
    Aug. 30, 2013 - 8:26 pm

  • Italy repeals property tax in bid for stability

    ROME – Italy's government agreed Wednesday to repeal an unpopular property tax that ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi has long campaigned to abolish, a cru ...
    Aug. 28, 2013 - 4:31 pm

  • Is Coke's 127-year-old recipe the same? Not quite

    ATLANTA – Coca-Cola keeps the recipe for its 127-year-old soda inside an imposing steel vault that's bathed in red security lights. Several cameras mo ...
    Aug. 26, 2013 - 5:41 pm

  • Iraq vets join rising craft beer business

    VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Two Iraq War veterans eager to slake a growing American thirst for craft beer are setting up a brewery less than a mile from the ...
    Aug. 23, 2013 - 7:02 pm

  • TiVo refreshes product lineup with 6-tuner Roamio DVRs

    NEW YORK – TiVo Inc. wants to give TV viewers more control over what they watch on traditional channels and over the Internet as the pioneer of digita ...
    Aug. 20, 2013 - 4:45 pm

  • Workers going it alone for retirement funds

    NEW YORK – When it comes to funding their retirements, most workers say they will need to come up with the money themselves rather than rely on govern ...
    Aug. 16, 2013 - 7:18 pm

  • Digital era threatens drive-ins

    LANCASTER, Ohio – Through 80 summers, drive-in theaters have managed to remain a part of the American fabric, surviving technological advances and cha ...
    Aug. 16, 2013 - 5:03 pm

  • When a mutual fund says it doesn’t want your money

    NEW YORK – “No thanks.”That’s what a growing number of mutual fund managers are telling investors wh ...
    Aug. 7, 2013 - 5:03 pm

  • Fledgling 3-D printing industry finds home

    NEW YORK – It looks like a bakery. A warm glow emanates from the windows of big, oven-like machines, and a dusting of white powder covers everything.
    Aug. 7, 2013 - 5:02 pm

  • Eyebrow waxing and cafe lattes at the drugstore?

    At some Walgreen stores, there are health clinics staffed by nurse practitioners, cafes that sell barista-prepared coffee and Eyebrow Bars where train ...
    Aug. 7, 2013 - 4:58 pm

  • Cider hobby turns into business after layoff

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – It took losing his job at the unemployment office to move The Peoples Cider out of Jason Lummen’s kitchen and onto tap handles a ...
    Aug. 6, 2013 - 2:13 pm

  • Ambler General Store in Chemung

    Charles E. Ambler was born in Chicago in 1872, arrived in Chemung in 1906, lived therefor 47 years a ...
    Aug. 2, 2013 - 4:24 pm

  • Unions get creative to halt decline

    WASHINGTON – With union membership on the decline, labor leaders are getting more creative – and some say more desperate – to boost sagging numbers an ...
    Aug. 2, 2013 - 4:34 pm

  • Wells Fargo exec: Small businesses need guidance

    NEW YORK – When Lisa Stevens speaks about her role as head of small business banking at Wells Fargo & Co., she focuses more on how she can help her cu ...
    July 29, 2013 - 2:23 pm

  • Warm weather means early Calif. wine grape harvest

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. – There's no such thing as "normal" weather in California wine country, and vineyard operators say this year that truism could mean ...
    July 28, 2013 - 5:39 am

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