Business & Economy

By ANYA SOSTEK
Monday, November 20, 2006
Clay Carlino works on a pirate ship. With cannons that shoot smoke. Surrounded by a moat. Inside a warehouse in an industrial park.

The ship is where Carlino captains a team that designs toys and games for Davison Design & Development, which designs products both for individual inventors and for corporations.

Another group of employees who work on infant products have their desks inside a 26-foot by 16-foot crib, under what might be the largest baby mobile in the world _ they're checking with the Guinness Book of World Records.

By PIA SARKAR
Monday, November 20, 2006
Retailers expect to see more stuffing in their stockings this holiday season, although not quite as much of an increase as last year.

While industry groups measure sales differently, all seem to point to moderate growth in November and December.

By David Milstead
Sunday, November 19, 2006
E.W. Scripps is among a group of more than 150 newspapers from seven companies that have struck a wide-reaching alliance with Internet giant Yahoo.

The first step in the partnership, announced this morning, is designed to bolster classified advertising sales, with local help-wanted ads becoming part of Yahoo's HotJobs site.

By ALLISON BRUCE
Friday, November 17, 2006
In an unassuming building in Simi Valley, Calif., David Stearn can look out his office window at a street lined with mature trees and hills in the distance.

By CHRIS BRAWLEY MORGAN
Friday, November 17, 2006
Letter writers and party givers nationwide send out stacks of Whitney English stationery and invitations.

Whitney English herself, however, is much too busy to do the same.

By LIZ BENTSON
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Clint Eastwood, Pamela Anderson, Ann-Margaret and Drew Carey put in an appearance two years ago. Last year Morgan Fairchild, Gene Simmons of rock group Kiss and Don Cornelius of "Soul Train" fame showed up.

By MICHAEL TAYLOR
Friday, November 17, 2006
The future of driving, if Honda has anything to say about it, came to a California race track recently in the form of a dark red sedan that is slated to be the first fuel cell car on the planet to come off a production line.

By BRIAN HYSLOP
Thursday, November 16, 2006
There are Christmas cards to send your mother, your son, even your postal carrier. You know all those will be appreciated.

But sending a card to a business associate could blow up in your face.

"The card-sending season is full of potential etiquette pitfalls," said Marc Wagenheim, product-development director for Hallmark Business Expressions, a subsidiary of Hallmark Cards devoted to business-oriented greeting cards.

By JANET FORGRIEVE
Thursday, November 16, 2006
For shoppers at Lowry Town Center in Denver, Squeeze Fresh Smoothies is just the citrus-colored shake shop on the corner.

But there's more to it.

By MIKE MEYERS and SUSAN FEYDER
Sunday, November 19, 2006
US Airways' surprise $8 billion hostile offer Wednesday for bankrupt Delta Air Lines Inc. could be the opening salvo in a barrage of new industry consolidation.

Delta responded by saying it remains intent on emerging from bankruptcy next year as a standalone company; management emphasized that until February, it alone has authority to file a plan with the court detailing how it would operate as a solvent airline.