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After suffering a series of personal losses, a Bucks County couple is launching a new business that they say will help others grieve — ...

The Philadelphia City Planning Commission recently tried out a new tool for stoking civic engagement. The pilot project is over. The resu ...

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“Big data” is the new black. The business school at Temple University is hosting its first ever big data conference Th ...

There are plenty of online tools that make it easy for workaday Web users to do complex things. Now a Philadelphia firm is bringin ...

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On the day before the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was in Philadelphia to address a conv ...

Paying for parking in Philly? There’s now an app for that. Parkway Corporation recently installed mobile payment technology ...

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Asking for support works better with a tug of the heartstrings.  That’s the idea behind the Philadelphia DoGooder Award ...

[audio: st20120903.mp3] Astronomers have made a “sweet” discovery some 400 light years away in a molecular cloud around a star. ...

It’s day one for crews in New Jersey removing call boxes along the Atlantic City Expressway. Officials say the boxes are the l ...

Philadelphia was snubbed in ...

[audio: st20120827.mp3] Planet Earth looks like a perfect sphere from outer space, but that can be deceivi ...

When it comes to generosity, the greater Philadelphia area is below average. That’s according to a new study from the Chroni ...