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‘For profit, for good’: How ‘Junto 2013’ rallied local business leaders
“This is a business retreat, but maybe not the business retreat most people would imagine,” said ...
12 years ago
ListenCHOP partners with VC fund to funnel revenue back into research
Commercializing research from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is nothing new. One of its biggest hits is a rotavirus v ...
12 years ago
Can a hackathon make it easier to get around town?
Thirty-plus coders and a handful of local transportation agencies say, yes, it can. It’s the third year SEPTA is asking loca ...
12 years ago
ListenHow a new robot in Phoenixville dispenses meds to area nursing homes
A Baltimore company is expanding into the Philadelphia area, using robots to supply medications to nursing homes and long-term care facil ...
12 years ago
ListenPhiladelphia Zoo nets $6M grant from William Penn Foundation
There’s a bunch of other stuff, too, but a $6 million grant will partially fund “an overhead passageway allowing the Zoo̵ ...
12 years ago
Are these the 15 nerdiest places in Philly?
Nerds, geeks, dorks: Help us out here. A lifelong Philadelphian, Chris ...
12 years ago
With new job title, William Penn Foundation seeks new leader
After an abrupt split with ...
12 years ago
Eight ‘green innovators’ square off at Greenfest Philly
From wool dryer balls to a company that builds ...
12 years ago
Nutter welcomes Brand.com to new HQ in Center City Philadelphia
Want to look good online? That’s what Brand.com promises. On Thursday, Philadelphia ...
12 years ago
Could ‘connected vehicle technology’ have prevented this South Jersey school bus crash?
In February 2012 in Chesterfield, N.J., a school bus was T-boned by a speeding dump truck. The crash killed an 11-year-old girl. ...
12 years ago
With Philly as test market — and tech toys in hand — NRG aims for electric ‘engagement’
An electricity company is using Philadelphia as a launch pad for a new service. NRG Residential Solutions is not unique in ch ...
12 years ago
Philadelphia bioethics meeting tackles implanted memories and other thorny issues
Consider, for example, the implications of a fake memory. ...
12 years ago
2013 Philly Geek Award Winners #PHLGeekAwards
And the 2013 Geek of the Year award goes to… Dan Ueda, coach of th ...
12 years ago
On Snakey’s trail in Swarthmore, but we couldn’t find the 7-foot boa constrictor either
We’re here in Swarthmore, Pa., on the trail of a 7-foot-long boa constrictor that goes by the name ‘Snakey.’ He& ...
12 years ago
Hey, grown-ups: There’s no such thing as a ‘birthday week’
“Friday is my birthday!” a 20-something friend announced on Facebook on a recent Monday morning. “That means Tuesday, W ...
12 years ago