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Ben Franklin’s Board Honors Innovator & Scholar

June 30, 2014

Benjamin Franklin once said that an educator should be a scholar, teacher and citizen. In his life and career, Dr. Joseph Bordogna has fulfilled the patriot Franklin’s vision, of innovation with social purpose, with most admirable results. On June 23rd, the Board of Directors of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Ben Franklin) […]

June 24, 2014

News Networks | Thomas Bailey | June 24, 2014 With Pfizer’s attempted takeover of AstraZeneca, Merck & Co.’s continued downsizing, and the recent acquisition of Cephalon Inc., the Philadelphia region’s pharmaceutical sector is going through some big changes. As the rate of drug discovery slows and the cost of research and development rises, more and more […]

PeopleLinx gets ‘LinkedOut,’ reworks product

June 17, 2014

Philadelphia Business Journal | Lauren Hertzler | Jun 17, 2014, 2:28pm EDT Startup PeopleLinx learned in March it would get the boot from using LinkedIn’s application programming interface. PeopleLinx is one of many companies recently cut off from using the LinkedInAPI tool for hiring, marketing or sales purposes. (Hence the #LinkedOut hashtags we’ve beenseeing on Twitter.) But it didn’t deter the […]

The Cutting Edge – Graphene Frontiers

June 10, 2014

Philadelphia Inquirer | Diane Mastrull | June 10, 2014 In a University City laboratory, Mike Patterson recently shared his thoughts on the potential impact of the business he has helped launch. In doing so, the CEO of Graphene Frontiers demonstrated an unapologetic inability to understate. “This is changing-the-world stuff,” Patterson said. At the core of […]

Biomeme Expands from NextFab Incubator

May 27, 2014

Joseph N. DiStefano | May 27, 2014 | Philadelphia Inquirer Biomeme Expands from NextFab Incubator Biomeme, a four-person start-up operating out of Evan Malone’s NextFab cool-tools members’ workshop on Washington Ave., has raised $1.9 million in funding for its DNA analysis-on-your-smartphone development project, partly from NextFab itself, Malone tells me. The firm has also been […]