News Type: News

Is Philly on its way to tech hub status after lagging behind?

April 17, 2015

Source: UpStart Business Journal This year, Philadelphia’s technology scene is well-positioned to see an uptick in mergers and acquisitions. It’s already off to a good start. The last week in January, and just spilling into February, there was a flurry of activity. At the same time biotech company Spark Therapeutics went public with a $161 […]

Temple Ventures | Please Join Us in Sparking Technological Innovation

April 17, 2015

Details When: April 24, 2015 Where: Temple University – Serc Building 1925 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Agenda 10:00-11:00 Refreshments, Networking, and Technology Showcase Next Generation Antimicrobial Agents Dr. William Wuest Assistant Professor of Chemistry, College of Science and Technology; New Therapeutic Approach for ALS (LouGehrig’s Disease) Dr. Benjamin Blass, […]

Philadelphia health IT company adds Apple Pay

April 16, 2015

Source: Philadelphia Business Journal A Philadelphia company that processes tens of billions of dollars in health care payments each year has added Apple Pay to its payment network. InstaMed, which has offices in Center City and Newport Beach, Calif., operates an integrated health care payment network that connects more than 1,500 hospitals, more than 70,000 […]

Meet Philly’s supermaterial maker: Graphene Frontiers

April 16, 2015

Source: Technically Philly The company is mass producing graphene, a Nobel Prize-winning nanomaterial, in a “gamechanging” fashion. What’s thin, flexible, transparent, highly conductive, ten times more durable than diamond and won a Nobel Prize back in 2010? That’s right, we’re talking about graphene. Graphene Frontiers CEO Mike Patterson says that back in 2010, one square […]

Third acquisition’s the charm. Change.org now owns Versa!

April 10, 2015

Source: Venture Beat With 90M users, Change.org buys Versa to expand its petition platform Today Change.org, a rather large site for creating and promoting petitions, announced its third acquisition: Versa. Versa tried to make sense of chaotic comments on news articles with a sponsored comment tool. That tool was designed to help politicians, corporations, and […]

Milkcrate helps people wanting to live green

April 10, 2015

Source: Philly.com In those cash-strapped days when you first moved into your own place and used plastic milk crates as furniture, you might not have considered yourself part of the sustainability movement. But you were, by repurposing that crate. A few years ago, Morgan Berman decided she, too, wanted to live a greener existence. “I […]

35 New Jobs Coming to KOP-Based Greenphire

April 10, 2015

Source: Philly.com Greenphire to add 35 at new KofP HQ Flush with new investor cash, clinical-trials payment-technology provider Greenphire says it has moved to an 18,000 sq. ft. office at 630 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, from a smaller location nearby. The company employs 65, and plans to have over 100 by the end of […]

Panasonic and Neat Company are Now a Thing

April 8, 2015

Source: Business Wire Panasonic Announces New Bundled Product Offering with the Neat Company, a Leading Provider of Expense Management Software for the Small Business New hardware and software bundle delivers affordable and versatile expense management capabilities and scanning solution NEWARK, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Panasonic System Communications Company of North America, a provider of industry leading document management […]

I Spy With My Little Eye…Bryce Harper Holding a Chandler Bat on the Sports Illustrated Cover!!!

April 7, 2015

Source: The Big Lead Bryce Harper Is Very Jacked on the Sports Illustrated Baseball Preview Cover Bryce Harper and Max Scherzer adorn the cover of the Sports Illustrated baseball preview this year. More specifically, Bryce Harper’s Hulk Hogan-level left forearm graces one of the magazine’s four different regional covers — the Indians, Mariners and […]

A less frustrating customer service call? Yes please!

April 6, 2015

Source: Technically Philly This Philly startup is using live video to enhance customer service calls Livegenic aims to make calling in insurance claims much less frustrating. “Have you tried turning it off and on again?” It’s a question we’re asked in many a customer service phone call. For good reason, too: it’s a starting point. […]