Philly's Startup Scene: A New Underdog Story?
The future starts now for Philadelphia's startup community, which attempts to redefine itself and move forward by nurturing its successes and new faces.
Erie Innovation Fund rolls dice on first two investments
The local Ben Franklin Technology Partners group and the Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority have joined forces to fund CE Convergence and @Home FMS.
Reclaiming PA's Brownfields: Assessing Potential
Several organizations and partnerships have developed to make re-using dormant brownfield sites throughout PA easier and more impactful.
UPMC hiring thousands; Pittsburgh jobs picture shows steady gains
UPMC anticipates mega hiring next year, nearly 1,900 new jobs, positions that range from medical professionals to administrators, administration and IT professionals.
Secrets of Philly Startup Weekend 2.0 revealed
Startup Weekend 2.0 is coming to Philly and it's going to be bigger, faster and better with much more caffeine.
Scranton medical school researcher works to find new treatment for hospital-acquired infection
A researcher at The Commonwealth Medical College in Scranton helped discover a way to prevent a bacteria from a hospital-acquired infection from entering the human body and render it inactive it does infect a patient.
Updated cancer treatment facility coming to Pocono Medical Center
A new, high-tech cancer treatment facility is on track to open in northeast PA by next summer. The updated center under construction at the Pocono Medical Center's campus in East Stroudsburg will have 59,000 square feet of space when it's complete.
Scientists from St. Marys company and Penn State study way to make advanced battlefield armor
Pennsylvania scientists are studying a technique that's designed to put better armor on vehicles on the battlefield but could have other wide-ranging applications.
Bucknell student's remote-controlled plane captures imagery to aid creek restoration
Remote-controlled cars and airplanes were a hobby of Nick Urban's when he was a boy. This summer he built a plane that's being used to map the landscape around a creek that flows into the Susquehanna River.
Allentown cloud-computing veterans land on list of up-and-coming IT companies
At the turn of the millennium the founders of an Allentown information technology firm embraced an emerging concept called cloud computing. independenceIT was recently included on a trade publication's list of up-and-coming IT companies.