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>Federal prosecutors said the suspects targeted companies including Alcoa Inc, Allegheny Technologies Inc, United States Steel Corp, Toshiba Corp unit Westinghouse Electric Co, the U.S. subsidiary of SolarWorld AG, and a steel workers' union.

These are all Pittsburgh-based companies. Why?

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There is still a lot of manufacturing based tech companies in PGH, something China is competing with.