Money
Brian Roberts Plays Roller Coaster Tycoon
Comcast is poised to buy out the Blackstone Group’s half of the stake in Universal Orlando, which includes The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The […]
Who Wants to Volunteer to Pay More Taxes?
On your PA tax form next year, there will be a line where you can fess up to all your Internet and Delaware shopping and […]
City Hall to Crack Down on Philly Businesses
Warning notices have gone out to businesses with out-of-date licenses, and Mayor Nutter announced that the city will be going after those who are operating […]
Academy of Natural Sciences Merges With Drexel
In what the Scoop can only assume is an attempt to avoid Orchestra-style bankruptcy, the Academy of Natural Sciences will merge with Drexel University. Now, […]
What Philly CEOs earn
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ranked the average salaries of CEOs across the nation and Philly didn’t come out looking so sharp. Chief executive […]
Lawsuit Filed Against Philly Trader
In a story involving P. Diddy, stacks of money on a man’s lap, a “virtual” office and even a Mercedes dealership in Cherry Hill, an […]
Are You Positive You Didn’t Win the Lottery?
The Scoop always thought there were two kinds of people in this world—suckers who play the lottery and those who don’t. But it seems like […]
What Philly’s Richest Are Doing With Their Money
A Berwyn money management company has surveyed the region’s wealthiest people to find out how they’re investing their money. Turns out, the rich are playing […]
Convention Center Fail
A manufacturing defect has rendered the fancy lights on the exterior of the expanded Convention Center not so fancy. A Center spokeswoman says the company […]
Amoroso’s Announces Layoffs
Things aren’t sounding good for the Scoop’s favorite local breadmaker. Get the details on Foobooz.
Feel-Good Budget Deals Are A Joke
It is a sad truth that America has been transformed from a tough-as-nails powerhouse into a nation that prefers to bury its head in the […]
Care to Donate to an M. Night Shyamalan Scholarship?
Three creative types—who the Scoop assumes have never come close to creating anything like The Sixth Sense—have launched a website accepting donations to help send […]
CNN Puts Brian Roberts at #6 on Highest-Paid CEOs List
CNN Money’s list of the Top 20 highest-paid CEOs has Brian Roberts at #6, with a total haul of $28.2 million in 2010; that’s an […]
We All Make Money Mistakes
After 30 years of couch sessions with her clients—and after dealing with some financial losses of her own—Wynnewood-based psychologist Maggie Baker realized one thing: We’re […]
Tastykake Exclusive: How We Lost a Philadelphia Icon
Less than a year after the move to the promised land of the Navy Yard, Tasty Baking has been sold off to a Georgia-based baking […]