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Who wouldn’t want pizza over chicken salad? Can anyone blame De’Veon Smith formerly of the USFL Pittsburgh Maulers for wanting a slice? Well, the slice led to Smith being cut by Kirby Wilson, head coach of the USFL team in the Steel City. Smith requested pizza from a hotel worker instead of the chicken salad that was being served to him. The hotel worker told him he couldn’t and asked if that would be a problem. Smith claims that he said “yes” and walked away. Hard to believe but… Source link

Nearly two years ago, contractors for Google’s Pittsburgh operations voted to join the United Steelworkers union in a bid to secure more labor rights representation. It was an early example of a building union movement for tech workers across the spectrum. But as other hard-fought battles have been waged among blue and white collar workers alike, both sides have continued hashing out negotiations. This week, those have finally resulted in something more concrete. The contract workers… Source link

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PITTSBURGH and SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The City of Pittsburgh today announced a four-year agreement with Google Cloud to migrate its legacy IT infrastructure to Google Cloud. The agreement allows the city to not only lower its IT costs, but also improve delivery of citizen services and become the region’s leader in cloud-native software development. Under the agreement, The City of Pittsburgh Department of Innovation & Performance will transform and modernize its… Source link

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Whether walking past her murals or swiping past her Instagram, people love the Black Girl Magic Series by Pittsburgh artist and muralist Janel Young. The series celebrates natural hair and self-love among Black women. “I think it gives color to downtown Pittsburgh. People have come and taken photos in front of it and tagged me on Instagram,” said Young about her mural along Sixth Avenue and Wood Street. Despite her colorful characters earning her a fan following and… Source link

(AP) — A West Virginia news publisher has filed an antitrust suit against Google and Facebook, who together receive roughly half of all digital ad dollars in the U.S. and are facing antitrust charges from federal and state authorities. The company, HD Media, owns several papers in the state, including the Herald-Dispatch in Huntington and the Charleston Gazette-Mail. HD Media claims Google has so monopolized the online ad market that “it threatens the extinction of local newspapers… Source link

TribLIVE’s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. 51 minutes ago Monday’s Google Doodle was designed to show the duality of history and current events, pointing out similarities and differences in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the one that’s taking place today. That’s according to the doodle’s creator. She is artist, Noa Denmon, 25, a Pittsburgh native who now lives in… Source link

In their first playoff appearance since January 2003, the Browns stunned the Steelers with 28 unanswered first-quarter points on their way to a 48-37 AFC wild-card win Sunday night. Cleveland scored a defensive touchdown on the first play from scrimmage — a botched snap over the head of Ben Roethlisberger — and finished with five forced turnovers. Pittsburgh, forced to play from behind the whole way, could not come up with momentum-shifting takeaways down the stretch. The Browns’… Source link