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- Comcast reports jump in profit, revenues
- Urban Outfitters loses two votes on governance issues
PhillyInc: Under some pressure by investors are Checkpoint Systems and – to a lesser degree – Comcast.
- Urban Outfitters loses two votes on governance issues
PhillyInc: For the first time in recent memory, there is some optimism among businesses and consumers. One possible concern and a big one: Debt problems in Europe.
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USA Technologies faces another proxy fight
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PhillyInc: The Malvern provider of cashless-payment systems for vending machines is facing a battle for control of its nine-member board.
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Urban Outfitters faces shareholder vote on board diversity
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PhillyInc: The Philadelphia retail chain is facing resolutions about board diversity, its "plurality vote" and having directors face election each year.
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Sticking to the retirement plan may be working after all
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PhillyInc: Those who stayed the course through the highs and lows of the market, including the 2008 crash, have found that there is reason for optimism.
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SEER Interactive is Phila.’s only Inner City 100 firm
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SEER Interactive is the lone Philadelphia company to make the 2012 Inner City 100 list of the fastest-growing companies in — where else? — the inner city. For the last 14 years, the nonprofit Initiative for a Competitive Inner City has highlighted the entrepreneurial activity that goes on in U.S. cities. And for about just as long, I’ve wondered why more Philadelphia firms don’t pop up on it.
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At the Navy Yard’s Network Operations Center
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PhillyInc: A top Navy Yard executive said the opening of the center is a big step in smartening the grid the Navy built to demonstrate what might be possible in large, regional power grids.
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Confident and uncertain? Both are possible
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PhillyInc: In a survey, CEOs of small companies said they've learned how to make their businesses more productive with fewer employees. That doesn't bode well for the job market.
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A big week for sales
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Philly Inc: Philadelphia companies proved to be very attractive this week with several of them being acquired. What was behind it? Each company had something buyers wanted, and some have been for sale for some time.
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Sunoco finally makes its last sale
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PhillyInc: With Sunoco’s annual shareholders meeting being held in the buyer’s home state of Texas last week, maybe it should’ve been blindingly obvious that Sunoco’s final deal was near.
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Healthways acquires Wayne’s Ascentia
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PhillyInc: The 11-year-old software company and its 23 employees develop physician-directed health management tools. It emerged out of Renaissance Medical Management.
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Corporate earnings in region doing well
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PhillyInc: Among 20 companies reporting results in the last two days, revenue in the most-recent quarter was up an average 6.5%, while profit – excluding AstraZeneca's miserable period – moved higher by 5.7%.
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