PPL Electric Utilities is upping its social media strategy with a new app that allows its customers to engage in friendly competition over energy consumption on Facebook.
Ben Franklin TechVentures, one of Pennsylvania's first technology incubators, continues to rack up awards and attract fledgling companies.
At more than $71 million, iPipeline of Exton has racked up the 8th largest venture capital investment in the country for the first quarter of 2012.
Twenty-five teams from five schools gathered recently at the eCenter@LindenPointe, a new Hermitage business incubator, for the 2012 Northwest Pennsylvania College Elevator Pitch Competition.
Separation Design Group in Waynesburg, a research and product development firm, was one of 18 companies honored as "beacons of promise and models of excellence in high technology" with a 2012 Tibbetts Award from the Small Business Administration.
Arkansas-based J.B. Hunt Transport Services has put down roots in Harrisburg with a new, green facility and the promise of about 30 new jobs.
In a juicy new business locate for the Lehigh Valley, Ocean Spray, the multi-billion-dollar beverage giant, is building a new, $110 million bottling plant on 44 acres in Upper Macungie Township, bringing with it 165 jobs.
Patrick Clasen, Justin Lawyer and Timothy Marks were Lehigh University undergrads, aquarium hobbyists and tinkerers when they had their first big idea. Today, the three are principals of EcoTech Marine in Bethlehem.
After 12 years in Wisconsin, Northwoods Paper Converting's first expansion is up and running in East Stroudsburg, PA.
Education Management Solutions (EMS) in Exton is a fast-growing provider of software and audio-video devices used for training, evaluation and documentation by medical and nursing schools and others.