NorthStar Solutions Group, an IT consulting firm near Reading, provides services like building databases, redesigning websites and strengthening the security of computer systems. It's been ranked as one of the fastest-growing companies in America.
The new One Green World Cafe is run by students from the U.S. and abroad. It also features fairly traded coffee, internationally inspired pastries and reclaimed discarded furniture.
Synapse Marketing Solutions offers a range of services like printing, website design and applications for mobile devices. Inc. magazine recently ranked the Lancaster company No. 396 on its list of the 500 fastest growing businesses in America.
Telepole Manufacturing specializes in telescoping flagpoles, which have sections that slide up until the pole is the correct height. Its sales are up dramatically after releasing a sturdier product.
A Connecticut manufacturer of high-tech equipment for the electrical power, chemical and oil and gas industries is moving its headquarters to southwestern Pennsylvania.
Kurt Hinds of alternative-energy company Kur Technologies has a prototype for a 21-pound generator with a 12-volt battery. It includes an LED light, three standard electrical outlets and two outlets comparable to a car's cigarette lighter.
Right before Labor Day the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission released a free mobile application called TRIP Talk, which uses a mobile device's GPS signal to announce obstacles coming up on the road, from congestion to construction to car accidents.
Each week fantasy football managers decide which players of their players should be benched. A team of entrepreneurs from State College turned that choice into game called Matchup Huddle, based on fantasy managers' advice on which players to start.
A researcher at The Commonwealth Medical College in Scranton helped discover a way to prevent a bacteria from a hospital-acquired infection from entering the human body and render it inactive it does infect a patient.
Remote-controlled cars and airplanes were a hobby of Nick Urban's when he was a boy. This summer he built a plane that's being used to map the landscape around a creek that flows into the Susquehanna River.