Joseph N. DiStefano writes business stories for the Inquirer, including the PhillyDeals column on Wednesdays, as well as the blog at www.philly.com/phillydeals.
Email Joseph N. at JoeD@phillynews.com
PhillyDeals: There's nothing like crusading politicians who want to boost taxes on drinkers and smokers to unite Philadelphia bar owners against City Hall.
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PhillyDeals: How do you blame a city for lying to taxpayers and bond buyers about its sad financial shape - without also blaming its mayor, or its finance officers, or any of the paid lawyers, bankers, and advisers who helped tell the lies?
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Corbett to give away $350M from program he knocked
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PhillyDeals: Gov. Corbett plans to give $350 million more to factory owners, developers, colleges, and museums later this year through a grant program against which he campaigned.
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Apartment rents rise here, sink in D.C.
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PhillyDeals: Apartment rents are going up in metropolitan Philadelphia, even as they fall in the Washington area. How'd that happen?
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Little lights are a big deal
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PhillyDeals: Light-emitting diodes - LEDs - have been a technology of the future long enough that shares of companies that specialize in the energy-frugal, digital-friendly, but costly-to-make lamps have already soared to dizzying levels and cratered back into the real world.
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Montco fires private investment-pickers
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PhillyDeals: Montgomery County has pulled a lever out of the big machine that keeps the investment industry profitable even when clients lose money.
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Why the Convention Center is a privatization target
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PhillyDeals: Hotel managers' complaints that not enough shows are booked after 2014 have put pressure on the center to do something.
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Convention Center management request stirs interest of local firms
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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.
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Lotteries, liquor sales to push Pa. ahead?
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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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