Communications
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As Liberty Property Trust Acquires Lot, Speculation On Third Comcast Tower Mounts
The momentum toward a possible third Comcast tower in Philadelphia quickened this week as Malvern-based Liberty Property Trust accumulated yet another property on the block near Comcast’s other two towers. This one, the fifth purchased within the block surrounded by 19th, Arch, Cherry and 20th streets, is a 10,720-square-foot surface parking lot at 19th and…
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DuckDuckGo Pushes For Internet Privacy, Open Source Code
Recent research shows that concern over online privacy is trending up, and the fast-rising Paoli search engine DuckDuckGo is riding that wave while also fueling a shift toward open source software. Network World recently highlighted DuckDuckGo’s milestone achievement of attaining 9 million searches per day and being included in the Firefox and Safari browsers as well as the small company’s…
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Chester County’s Liberty Property Trust Acquisition Hints at Third Comcast Tower
Real estate watchers are more tuned into the speculation about a third Comcast tower in downtown Philly this week after Malvern-based land developer Liberty Property Trust aired the first real evidence to support such a claim. The two partners have acknowledged they bought property diagonally across from the under-construction Comcast Innovation and Technology Center, according to a…
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Wayne Ad Exec Stars In Aetna Appeal To LGBT Couples
A local ad executive is promoting a new corporate message — but this time from the other side of the camera. Viamark Philadelphia owner Stephen Facenda and his 18-year partner Todd Babish, vice president of client services, star in a targeted TV campaign by Aetna marketing the health care provider’s “Be Proud. Be Well.” message to lesbian,…
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Year-Long Transition Leads To The End Of New Era
Two dozen New Era Tickets employees could be phoning a friend for help with a new job before their phones go dead April 28. The Exton call center has reached the end of its era, having been merged into California-based ticketing service Paciolan by parent company Comcast-Spectacor. “Paciolan is transiting its call centers from Exton to Comcast…
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Better Alerts Offers Medical Alert App For Seniors
Better Alerts from West Conshohocken is offering a new app that it says can revolutionize the medical alert industry. The Better Alerts app works in conjunction with a smartphone and smartwatch technology to directly communicate with seniors and their designated contacts and emergency services. The app offers users and caregivers medication reminders, instant texts and…
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New Bentley Acquisition To Aid In Asset Performance Modeling
Bentley Systems, the Exton software company that has built its business on helping governments and utility companies sustain their built infrastructure, is now embarking on a strategy to help those clients predict the future of their buildings, bridges and utilities too. Bentley recently acquired C3global and its Amulet software in order to add asset performance modeling…
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Berwyn Firm TE Connectivity Connecting Wearable Computers To The Future
A Berwyn company is making a bet that the technology we carry around in our pockets and on our wrists will soon be worn right within our clothes, and as a result, TE Connectivity Ltd. is racing to develop the little pieces that will help these next-generation technologies break out of the box and into the…
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Coffee Break: PBJ On Why Every Entrepreneur Should Learn Photoshop
Savvy new media engagement has never been more important for your business than it is today. On social media, web, apps etc. successful image management is key to developing your identity. That’s why Philadelphia Business Journal has published a short guide to developing a working knoweldge with the premiere image editing software. Although a bit…
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Coffee Break: Facebook To Scale Back Unpaid Advertising Exposure
The Wall Street Journal reported last week on new changes to Facebook’s advertising policy that may effect thousands of small businesses in Chester County that depend on the platform to reach customers. “…As of mid-January, the social network will intensify its efforts to filter out unpaid promotional material in user news feeds that businesses have posted…
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The Next Firefox Version To Include DuckDuckGo
Softonic International is reporting great news about the growing Chester County search engine DuckDuckGo and for people concerned with online privacy. Mozilla plans to integrate DuckDuckGo into the next version of Firefox. DuckDuckGo, as this site has reported, is a search engine that doesn’t collect any personal information. Writer Jonathan Riggell reports Mozilla is following…
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Sting Of Chinese Censorship May Not Stop DuckDuckGo From Overtaking Bing
While the official explanation for China’s ban on the up-and-coming DuckDuckGo search engine born in Paoli isn’t forthcoming from Beijing, the communist country’s reputation for aggressive protectionism and widely orchestrated censorship precedes it. Nevertheless, other new developments like its deal with Apple and pervasive concerns about online privacy could propel DuckDuckGo past Bing in the battle…
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Rapid Expansion Follows CTDI Presence In Upstate New York
The dirt had barely settled on the $11.4 million construction of one of its newest operations centers when West Chester-headquartered Communications Test Design Inc. announced last week it would add on even more space to its lease in upstate New York’s Glenville Business and Technology Park, the Times Union reported. CTDI, a communications services provider…
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Digital First Media Puts Local Newspapers On The Market
In putting several local newspapers, including the Daily Local News, Chester County’s home town paper, on the market for a possible sale, owner Digital First Media is checking in on its return for investments to keep pace with the news business’ transformation from print to digital. “The companies that will succeed are those which have meaningful…
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Cable Professionals Form Society Of Broadband Experts
The Exton-based Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) is helping international cable system operators prepare for new technologies. SCTE has formed a new group – the International Society of Broadband Experts (ISBE) – to provide a single, unified source of training materials and certification resources to cable engineering and operations professionals around the world. ISBE will be…
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Prepay Nation Makes Inc. Magazine’s Top 500 List
Prepay Nation of Berwyn has grown more than a stunning 3,637 percent since the start of 2011 – meteoric growth which has earned it a place on Inc. magazine’s annual Inc. 500 list of the nation’s fastest-growing companies. The company provides cross-border micro value and prepaid prepaid mobile airtime. Inc. placed Prepay Nation 97th overall…
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Nutrition411.Com Joins HMP Communications Holdings
HMP Communications Holdings, an innovative Malvern based health care communications company, has just acquired Nutrition411.com, a vibrant news source and online clinical resource center designed for healthcare professionals who integrate diet and nutrition into patient consultations. If you are a health care professional looking to recommend Gwyneth Paltrow’s elimination diet, find a diet for gallstones,…
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Berwyn’s Prepay Nation Partners With Cellcom Liberia
Prepay Nation of Berwyn has partnered with Cellcom Liberia to help the hundreds of thousands of Liberian expatriates who support their loved ones back home provide the financial assistance of mobile airtime. With more than 500,000 Liberian emigrants in the U.S.A., Germany, Italy, Holland and UK, the partnership is likely to be lucrative for both…
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