Joseph N. DiStefano reports for the Philadelphia Inquirer and his PhillyDeals column runs Wednesdays. Those columns are collected below. He also writes the PhillyDeals blog, which you can read here.
Email Joseph N. at JoeD@phillynews.com
- Convention Center to privatize some jobs
- Convention Center board wants to install digital signage
PhillyDeals: The Pennsylvania Convention Center board of directors says it sought applicants from across the United States. The firms that answered the call were all locally connected, say people familiar with the results.
- State hopes you'll drink and gamble more
- Montco out of the financial doghouse: update
- President: Christie vs Biden - or Markell?
More jobs! More money! So say the people backing Gov. Corbett's plans to turn the Pennsylvania Lottery and the State Store system over to private operators.
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Center City firm helps companies get LinkedIn
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PhillyDeals: Osage Partners of Philadelphia, Greycroft Partners of Los Angeles, and MissionOG of Devon, say they have invested $3.2 million in Center City-based PeopleLinx, a firm that helps companies give their workers' LinkedIn accounts a standard corporate look and uses LinkedIn data to boost sales.
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Harleysville bank sale pays dividends in the Philly area
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PhillyDeals: The Buffalo-based financial group that bought Harleysville National is financing big local projects.
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Surprising Swiss pay decision: What effect here?
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PhillyDeals: The Swiss are forcing all companies to vote each year on pay levels for bosses and corporate directors, and to outlaw the fat signing, merger, and severance bonuses that have lately enriched Swiss medical-supply and banking moguls.
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U.S. Antitrust Division in Phila. lost many veteran lawyers
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PhillyDeals: President Obama's first pick to head the once-fearsome Department of Justice Antitrust Division scared would-be monopolists, at least for a moment.
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Watchful eyes on Wilmington Trust veterans
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PhillyDeals: President Obama's administration prefers fines and wrist-slapping to sending bankers to prison. But the mess at Wilmington Trust Co. is unfolding a little differently.
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Senator wants bond deals probed by prosecutor
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PhillyDeals: Pennsylvania state Sen. Mike Folmer and a handful of colleagues from both parties are pushing a plan to hire a special prosecutor to investigate how the state's capital city went broke selling bonds that enriched Wall Street banks and investors, Philadelphia law firms and financial consultants, and hometown contractors at taxpayers' expense.
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Deal enables founder to turn Dell around
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PhillyDeals: The planned sale of computer company Dell Inc. to founder Michael Dell, buyout firm Silver Lake Partners, Microsoft, and other financiers marks the end of a couple of familiar periods at the busy junction of dollars and data.
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Trying to make sense of Wall St. rally
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PhillyDeals: There's a disconnect between the pessimism that bosses have been showing since the election and this winter's tax hikes and the rising stock market.
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State pension board made expensive bet on hedge funds
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PhillyDeals: It was an expensive throw of the dice: Back in 2006, the Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System (SERS) and its board, headed by ex-state Rep. Nicholas Maiale (D., Phila.), gave more than $3 billion to six private investment firms so they could use it to buy high-priced hedge fund investments, in hopes of fat profits.
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Bridesburg site touches off battle over residential vs. industrial use
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PhillyDeals: The polluted former Philadelphia Coke Co. site in Bridesburg shows the promise and challenges facing Mayor Nutter, Councilman Bobby Henon, and others who say they want to renew the city's historic but shrunken factory economy.
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