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Many local companies gambling by not instituting formal plans PITTSBURGH -- When Mill Service Inc. found in late 1991 that it may have released as much as 15,000 gallons of [...]

Team with biggest network wins in battle of cable, phone interests PITTSBURGH - Last spring, telecommunications industry observers told the Business Times that the flurry of activity by local cable [...]

Too-stringent environmental laws keep old industrial plots vacant PITTSBURGH -- When the city's Urban Redevelopment Authority decided to transform an old steel mill site in South Oakland into the Pittsburgh [...]

But projections may disappoint if growth, jobs come slowly AIRPORT AREA -- In an aging, former coal-mining village west of Pittsburgh known as Midway Borough, where home mail delivery and [...]

Tied the knots TCI, Penn Access merger deal hinges on this week's hearings PITTSBURGH -- When Penn Access Corp., a local fiber-optics-based 'alternative-access' network provider, decided to merge with a [...]

Community, church groups target old properties for resurrection HILL DISTRICT -- Years ago, inside the New Granada Theatre on Centre Avenue, jazz greats such as Dizzy Gillespie and Lena Horne [...]

Producer of software that automates hotel functions suffers stock-price decline after earnings adjustment GREENSBURG -- Sulcus Computer Corp. (AMEX:SUL) two weeks ago announced it had an accounting problem that will [...]

Legent, GNC, Sulcus equities hammered by jittery Wall Street PITTSBURGH -- What's behind this big, bad, bearish stock market? It is President Bill Clinton's Whitewater woes, the Federal Reserve's two [...]

NORTH SIDE -- Entrepreneur Grant Renier, inventor of a device that continually self-inflates truck and car tires, hopes to pump up his development coffers with at least $1 million in [...]

Analysts like technology firms, especially in the health care sector PITTSBURGH -- When it comes to picking hot local stocks, analysts don't agree on much, but they all will concede [...]

Tiny software firm gets a chance to prove abilities in shipping sector ROBINSON TOWNSHIP -- International shipping software developer DXI Inc., after a six-year sales effort, has landed a contract [...]

Fledgling firm never quite got off the ground, investors recount PITTSBURGH -- By now, the top executives of computer software venture Guidance Technologies Inc. have started new lives, some in [...]

Will legal gambling breathe life into casualties of steel's decline? PITTSBURGH -- There's little doubt that riverboat gambling would bring new jobs and tax revenue to the region. And the [...]

PITTSBURGH -- Some 150 years ago, riverboat passengers would leave Pittsburgh for destinations along the Mississippi River and gamble informally to pass the time. Back then, riverboat gambling wasn't legal [...]

Recent market inroads include $10 million Cabletron deal WARRENDALE -- Local high-technology up-and-comer Fore Systems Inc., after making significant market advances last year with its high-speed voice, video and data [...]

Cable company says it still will spend $100 million on local system PITTSBURGH -- Local cable-TV operator TCI of Pittsburgh Inc. plans to move ahead with its much-touted, $100 million [...]

CANONSBURG -- Surrounded by the snow-covered woods and fields near Canonsburg, the young principals of an obscure software duplication and packaging company scramble from department to department to make everything [...]

Chinese trade begins to heat up; firms open offices, secure deals PITTSBURGH -- Irwin-based Extrude Hone Corp., a machine tool and equipment maker, has been exporting its products to the [...]

Once a star growth company, waste concern tries to recover PENN HILLS -- Nearly two years have passed since solid-waste management company Chambers Development Co. Inc. went into a dramatic [...]

Computer-systems integrator plans to use proceeds to fuel expansion ROBINSON TOWNSHIP -- Computer-systems integrator Ciscorp Inc., after several years of study and one false start, has launched an employee stock [...]

DOWNTOWN -- Is there life after Westinghouse Financial Services Inc. for the executives who worked there? Five who helped liquidate the multibillion-dollar loser ahead of schedule sure hope so. They [...]

Annual Business Times survey finds more than $500 million here PITTSBURGH -- Local companies looking for investment capital should take heart in 1994: The venture-capital pot is getting a lot [...]

'We complained,' a staffer said, until the team concept sank in STATION SQUARE -- As Anthony Bucci, president of Marc Advertising, tells it, he received little more than nods from [...]

Carnegie Group fights for new deals to replace 35 percent revenue cut PITTSBURGH -- Over the past five years or so, the U.S. Department of Defense hasmade no secret of [...]

Emprise, Transarc, Fore Systems all positioned for speedy growth PITTSBURGH -- One need only look at Legent Corp.'s striking new $40 million building overlooking the airport corridor in North Fayette [...]

Barriers give way to innovation in cable, cellular, long-distance PITTSBURGH -- If you thought you couldn't keep up with the changes in the local telecommunications industry this year, just wait [...]

Company will spend $10 million for tech edge over Bell Atlantic STRIP DISTRICT -- In a first for the cellular telephone industry in Pennsylvania, McCaw Cellular Communications Inc./Cellular One is [...]

Software developer's buyout binge continues with California company NORTH FAYETTE TOWNSHIP -- Computer software developer Legent Corp. has agreed to acquire TeamOne Systems Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., in exchange for [...]

Optical-laser maker takes on competition, severs distributor deal SAXONBURG -- If there's one thing U.S. companies doing business in Japan are advised to avoid, it is upsetting the 'wa.' That [...]

GREEN TREE -- Greater Pittsburgh's already heated long-distance telephone service market just got hotter with the arrival of another small provider intent on grabbing business customers. Three-year-old Commonwealth Long Distance [...]

Wanted: technically skilled sales people for small to midsize firms WARRENDALE -- Only a few months before John Lawton joined Fore Systems Inc. as human-resources manager last April, the computer-network [...]

Startup also finds new top exec in ex-C.R. Bard manager Mody TURTLE CREEK -- Medical-equipment startup Cardiac Telecom Corp. has hired a new chief executive, completed its clinical demonstrations and [...]

Survey: they believe pact means higher sales, more jobs for area PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh City Council voted to officially oppose the federal legislation that would ratify the North American Free [...]

MOUNT LEBANON -- Cash-hungry Biocontrol Technology Inc. hopes to raise about $12 million by selling 3 million new shares of common stock to the public. And the company is not [...]

High Tech Council aims to attract environmental companies to group PITTSBURGH -- When it comes to environmental services, Pennsylvania has found itself ranked third nationwide -- behind Texas and California [...]

Navy contractor only local firm selected so far by Clinton program CHESWICK -- A defense-conversion project aimed at breathing new life into Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s electro-mechanical division has been given [...]

Local TCI rivals have their own plans for system upgrades, mergers PITTSBURGH -- The principals of Green Tree-based cable-television operator Star Cable Associates reacted much like everyone else to the [...]

OAKDALE -- If someone in 1946 had asked the salesmen of Best Feeds & Farm Supplies Inc. whether they thought the company had a good chance of becoming a multimillion-dollar [...]

While spinoffs likely or necessary, not everyone expects Bell to sell Bell Atlantic Corp.'s multibillion-dollar plan to merge with cable-television giant Tele-Communications Inc. could change the face of the entire [...]

But former U.S. attorney still attracted to public sector DOWNTOWN -- The walls of former U.S. Attorney Thomas Corbett Jr.'s new office at Thorp, Reed & Armstrong are decorated by [...]

To help sell it, marketing pacts inked with giants of storage niche BRIDGEVILLE -- Emprise Technologies, the new venture of local high-tech icon Glen Chatfield, has introduced a software package [...]

Shipping interests scramble to buy and satisfy new federal tariff rules ROBINSON TOWNSHIP -- The founders of international-shipping software firm DXI Inc. know all too well what it's like waiting [...]

Health agencies are stunned by revenue cuts, heaps of paperwork PITTSBURGH -- For more than two years, the state legislature battled fiercely in the name of workers' compensation reform, exchaning [...]

Companies tell harrowing tales of losses suffered at hands of workers WARRENDALE -- David Schroeder thought it was odd when a $700,000 contract his computer software company had counted on [...]

Commerce, World Trade Center turn to dealmaking to spur results PITTSBURGH -- When Cleveland-based Roberts Steel decided to explore the possibility of exporting, it turned to the U.S. Department of [...]

O'Hara loop will boost capacity of Bell competitor by 25 percent DOWNTOWN -- Telecom upstart Penn Access Corp., showing it knows how to use its new owner's deep pockets, is [...]

O'HARA TOWNSHIP -- Roughly seven months after receiving a $5 million venture capital infusion, high-speed computer systems developer Fore Systems Inc. has more than tripled both its staff and quarterly [...]

Local entrepreneur John Connelly among those most likely to benefit HARRISBURG -- Barely 21 months ago, the state House of Representatives defeated a riverboat gambling bill by the not-so-close vote [...]

PITTSBURGH -- In March, the Clinton administration said it had an extra $472 million to spend on technology and manufacturing development across the country. Now local economic-development agencies are making [...]

Daxus chief plans future of production-automation concern based on software, entry to new segments DOWNTOWN -- Three years ago, systems integrator Daxus Corp. counted on work in heavy manufacturing industries [...]