Retail and Business

Best Buy Co. Inc. founder and Chairman Richard Schulze is stepping down after he failed to tell the board that former CEO Brian Dunn had violated company policy by having “an extremely close personal relationship” …

Yahoo Inc. CEO Scott Thompson ended his term at the company after it was revealed that he padded his resume, embellishing a college degree, CNNMoney reported.

Thompson had been in the top job for only …

RDG Planning & Design and Mason City received the Public Improvement Project award for the design of the Federal Avenue Streetscape and Plaza in Mason City from Main Street Iowa during its 2012 award ceremony. …

ISU Economists Ken Stone and Georgeanne Artz …

Iowa received a grade of C+ in “overall business friendliness” in a nationwide survey of more than 6,000 small business owners. The state was rated high in business-friendly regulations but was weighed down by low …

In March, home prices rose for the first time since last July, due to a tighter housing inventory, Reuters reported.

Data analysis firm CoreLogic Inc.’s home price index gained 0.6 percent from February but was …

Iowa State University assistant professor Tom Schrier is conducting a multiyear study that explores how new attractions influence attendance rates at amusement parks and theme parks.

During the study’s first two years he has collected …

The non-manufacturing sector continued to grow in April, but at a slower rate than in March, with a widely followed index dropping 2.5 points to 53.5, according to numbers released today by the Institute for …

The Iowa Leading Indicators Index recorded a positive change of 0.2 percent in March, rising to 104.9, the Iowa Department of Revenue said Wednesday. The six-month annualized change in the index was positive (0.9 percent) …

A rise in card use helped MasterCard Inc. post a 21 percent increase in first-quarter profits, The Wall Street Journal reported. 

The company reported that its revenues climbed 17 percent to $1.76 billion, beating analysts’ …