With help from Sun Capital, Horizon buys Atlanta, central N.J. firms

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Horizon Services, the expansion-minded, Stanton, Del.-based home plumbing, heating, and air-conditioning service, said it has acquired two... Read more

Philly start-up targets 'Wild West' of online advertising

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Amino, a Philadelphia company headed by two veteran software-company founders, is recruiting dozens of engineers and managers to build a system... Read more

MetLife buying Philly's Logan Circle bond house for $250M

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MetLife, the New York-based life insurance and investment company that is reorganizing in the face of tighter financial regulation... Read more

China investor slams SEC; Schorsch CFO convicted; Magerman cancels; Liberty falls

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It was quite a week for some of the investor fights we’ve been following. Lawyers for Shaohua “Michael” Yin have urged the... Read more

S&P threatens to cut Pa. credit rating

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S&P Global Ratings threatened Thursday to cut Pennsylvania’s AA- general-obligation bond rating a notch, which would likely drive... Read more

QVC, Home Shopping Network to merge in $2B deal

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In a bold bid to become more relevant, West Chester-based TV-shopping network QVC will merge with the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Home Shopping... Read more

Pennsylvania is shrinking. And Philly's not growing much

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Despite all the new pipelines to export natural gas, all of Philly’s many new start-up spaces and high-rise towers, and all the new... Read more

Hyperlocal elegy: Why Steve Strahs is ending CitizensCall.net

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With the recent sale of the Bucks and Burlington County dailies to NewMedia Investment Group (GateHouse) and Digital First Media’s... Read more