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It's that special time of year: cupids flit through the air, teddy bears grip bright red hearts demanding "Be Mine," lonely people wax cynical about card company cash grabs, and chocolate boxes morph into brightly shrink-wrapped, anatomically inaccurate hearts. That's right — it's time for Valentine's Day . read more - Business News

If you're a parent , you're likely to understand that taking your kids shopping for new clothes is a Herculean feat. Beyond the horrors of dragging sleepy, hungry, or otherwise uncooperative little ones around a cavernous shopping hub, there's the matter of the schlep to the mall — and that's not even taking the dressing room's particular challenges into account. read more - Business News

To see the full "Mad Money" Recap, please click here. ... Click to view a price quote on TSM. Click to research the Electronics industry. read more - Business News

The following commentary comes from an independent investor or market observer as part of TheStreet's guest contributor program, which is separate from the company's news coverage. By Frank Holmes NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- As Americans ponder the merits of Obama vs. read more - Business News

The following commentary comes from an independent investor or market observer as part of TheStreet's guest contributor program, which is separate from the company's news coverage. NEW YORK (TheStreet) --President Obama's 2013 budget projects a fiscal year 2012 deficit (that's the the year ending in September) at $1.3 trillion -- up from less than $1 trillion a month ago. read more - Business News

How many scenes and acts will there be for this Greek play? Answer: more than Wagner's Ring Cycle. That said, stocks rallied modestly on the news of another "deal". The current deal will be dissected many times before the EU will really know what's in it probably. The citizens of Athens won't like anything being done by the politicians or their EU overlords. read more - Business News

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Timing is either everything or nothing apparently. Maybe it depends on when you consider the notion. On Monday the market got back to its winning ways, reclaiming most of Friday's losses and putting the bears back on the run once more. read more - Business News

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The markets surged Monday as Apple topped $500. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 72.81, or 0.57%, to 12,874.04. The S&P gained 9.13, or 0.68%, to 1351.77. The Nasdaq jumped 27.51, or 0.95%. to 2931.39. Karen Finerman said on CNBC's "Fast Money" TV that she didn't regret selling some Apple shares last week. read more - Business News

In an abrupt about-face, House GOP leaders announced Monday that they are willing to extend the two percentage point cut in the payroll tax through the end of the year and add the approximately $100 billion cost to the nation's $15 trillion-plus debt. read more - Business News

ROARING RALLY: In anticipation of the spring home-selling season, the Standard & Poor's homebuilders index has surged 60 percent in four months. read more - Business News

Invalid Argument is a new show on ReadWriteWeb featuring developers, designers and pixel-pushers of all kinds. It's a chance to discuss the tech news of the moment amongst people who know what they're talking about. At RWW, the best part of our job is talking to the people who create the tech that makes the news. But why keep all the fun for ourselves when we can share it with everyone? read more - Business News

Catching up to Chrome is just part of the Firefox roadmap for 2012. Mozilla's Asa Dotzler has updated the strategy and roadmap for desktop Firefox in 2012. While the Mozilla folks have several original ideas and goals, there's a lot in the first half of the 2012 roadmap that looks very familiar to Chrome users as well. read more - Business News

Last week, after VMware introduced businesses to the idea of an automated cloud service portal called vCloud Integration Manager (vCIM) that could give private cloud consumers a way to become public cloud providers, the question was: How many small-to-medium enterprises would jump on board? read more - Business News

Hewlett-Packard's latest servers hit all the buzzwords, including automation, power savings, density and low heat, all with faster computing. Their real potential, however, may lie in persuading companies to keep buying office computers and not head for cloud computing. - Business News

Instead of giving those same old, tired, faux-patriotic stump speeches that glorify American virtues and accentuate American exceptionalism, our politicians need to adopt a broader, more internationalist view. read more - Business News

A chocolate shortage is probably the last thing you want to hear about today. Valentine's Day is tomorrow -- you may just want to focus... read more - Business News

Toy Fair -- the game and toy industry's annual expo -- is here once again, so I thought I'd take another look at what businesses can learn from classic toys. read more - Business News

The leaders of autocratic states in the age of technology and social media who won't open their societies are Humpty Dumpty. Once technology and social media upturn a society, all the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the old society back together again. read more - Business News

Paul Volcker has two words for the people who say the new banking-sector rule that bears his name is going to wreak havoc on the... read more - Business News

The Cincinnati Organizing Committee for the 2012 World Choir Games on Monday announced seven new sponsors. - Business News

WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials say a New Jersey company has been legally barred from making and selling a variety of dental products due to... read more - Business News

By Kate Holton and Mark Hosenball LONDON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch will face hostile and angry staff when he arrives in Britain this... read more - Business News

If an industry creates a product that is both dangerous and addictive and, ultimately, so unpleasurable that 85% of its customers want to quit, shouldn't society ban it? The cigarette cannot disappear quickly enough. read more - Business News

JUMPING BEANS: The price of soybeans rose because of speculation that global supplies will become tighter as demand grows more robust. A government report indicates that U.S. read more - Business News

Major business events and economic events scheduled for Tuesday: WASHINGTON -- Commerce Department releases retail sales data for January, 8:30 a.m. read more - Business News

Shares of Jive Software Inc., which makes Facebook-style social networks for businesses, rose Monday after an article in Barron's gave an upbeat view of the freshly public company. read more - Business News

The governor's office says Wisconsin's exports have improved over the last year by several billion dollars. read more - Business News

WASHINGTON -- House GOP leaders announced Monday they were putting forward a "backup plan" that would extend the payroll tax cut for ten months, while... read more - Business News

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Pittsburgh is in the top 25 in the United States for workers who take public transit, according to an analysis by On Numbers of U.S. Census Bureau data. The region has 5.78 percent of its workforce traveling via mass transit, enough to make it No. 24 on the list. read more - Business News