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Quepasa Corp. Buys myYearbook.com

A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? $100 million. And that’s exactly how much New Hope’s myYearbook.com is getting for becoming part of […]

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Borders Closes Remaining Stores

Borders Group Inc. has been closing stores recently. Today it is reported that Borders has decided to close its remaining 399 stores—including the 20 or […]

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Outlet Stores at the Jersey Shore Get New Owners

Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc. has spent $199.3 million to become the new owners of the Walk in Atlantic City and other outlet centers in […]

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Former Chester County Broker Charged With Fraud

John C. Lucidi Jr. used to work at Global Mortgage and Challenge Financial Investment Corp.—both companies in West Chester—when he allegedly helped friends and family […]

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Vote to Help Save the Music in Philly

VH1’s Save the Music has partnered with Energizer to hold a contest for a grant to restore instrumental music in a local school. Voting has […]

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Cigna is Moving to Connecticut

Cigna has announced that it’s moving its headquarters to Bloomfield, Connecticut to get $50 million in tax breaks and job-training grants. The move will also […]

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The FCC has Served Comcast Over the Tennis Channel

A lawyer for the Federal Communications Commission has accused Comcast of treating the Tennis Channel unfairly. Comcast has denied the attempts of Tennis Channel’s owners […]

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Girl Sues Father for Flipping the Bird

In 2008, a local man was cutoff in traffic on the Walt Whitman Bridge. That man, Thomas Timko, flipped the other driver the bird. That […]

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Pennsylvania Universities Raise Tuition and Technology Fees

The state’s budget dilemmas—especially relative to education—have been well documented. Now, in response to the final budget, which was officially passed by the House Wednesday […]

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Phillies and Citizens Bank Launch “Phans Feeding Families” Initiative

The Phillies have been in a giving mood this month. The 2011 Phillies Phestival was the best in the 22-year history of the event. Then, […]

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Bucks County High-Roller Sprays London Club with $192,000 Bottle of Champagne

Don Johnson, the Bensalem man who won over $15 million at Atlantic City casinos earlier this year, has been partying in London. He recently sprayed […]

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Wharton’s Coursekit Leaves for New York City

Three UPenn students created Coursekit, intended to challenge Blackboard as the go-to for universities and professors wishing to conduct scholastic activities online, and have since […]

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Barnes Reaches $200 Million Goal

The Barnes Foundation has raised $200 million in funds for its new location on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. In 2009, the foundation was struggling financially […]

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Millionaire Tom Knox Will Not Run For Mayor

Tom Knox, a former health care executive, announced that he will not run against Mayor Michael Nutter in November’s election. Knox also switched his party […]

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Philly Bridge Tolls Increase

Starting Friday, the Delaware River Port Authority will charge an extra dollar for drivers to return to Pennsylvania from New Jersey. Drivers crossing the Benjamin […]