http://www.philly.com/r?19=960&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2F Business headlines from Philly.com. en-us Mon, 28 May 2012 17:00:40 GMT 2012-05-28T17:00:40Z en-us http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=332264&44=154204125&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2Ftechnology%2F20120528_Ocean_City_NJ_bridge_is_a_massive_marvel_of_concrete.html Along with the usual water ice, greasy pizza, and tubes of sunscreen, the unofficial first weekend of summer was marked by a new arrival this year at the Jersey Shore: 175,000 cubic yards of concrete. It didn’t arrive all at once, of course, but the concrete — the Route 52 causeway bridge — is now a finished product and represents a major feat of engineering. The bridge stretches more than two miles from Somers Point on the mainland to the barrier island of Ocean City, able to accommodate 40,000 cars a day. Mon, 28 May 2012 17:00:40 GMT 7476ab31582089cb8a44e19f0418a282 2012-05-28T17:00:40Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165801&44=154944205&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2F20120528_ap_oilrisesabove91ongreecevoteoptimism.html Oil rose above $91 a barrel Monday in Asia as Greek polls suggested pro-austerity parties might win elections next month, raising the likelihood the country will stay in the euro common currency. Mon, 28 May 2012 10:18:55 GMT 4dfa865db006aa56ebd7dca83ec84753 2012-05-28T10:18:55Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165801&44=154240685&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2F20120528_Philly_Inc__Could_this_be_that_better_summer_.html As the unofficial start of summer, Memorial Day weekend is usually a hopeful time, with people looking forward to vacations, no school, and a slower tempo in the office. Mon, 28 May 2012 09:58:09 GMT 3f6b855cfb11324edd625b6dd35533fc 2012-05-28T09:58:09Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165801&44=154310335&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2F20120528_Business_People_in_the_News.html Philadelphia-based myCIO Wealth Partners L.L.C. hired Bruce J. Fenster as a senior manager. He had been executive director and a personal financial services practice leader of Ernst & Young and a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Sun, 27 May 2012 23:41:37 GMT 47fd8b686f8f52be018ecab0d0e78404 2012-05-27T23:41:37Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165801&44=154306435&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2F20120528_On_the_Boards.html Professional Women’s Roundtable, a Philadelphia nonprofit networking and professional organization, has named the following members to its board:•Ashley E. Anders, president of Ashley Anders Consulting Inc., is chair, alliance relations. •Peg Calvario, president of Peg Calvario L.L.C., is co-chair, membership committee. Sun, 27 May 2012 23:40:52 GMT 2c39a9d8fa424df1ad974b0d97969cbe 2012-05-27T23:40:52Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165801&44=154242285&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2F20120528_A_Wyndmoor_entrepreneur_bulldozes_into_playtime_cleanup.html Take 17 years’ experience as an often-harried personal assistant to celebrities, combine it with the growing unwillingness of your typical 8-year-old to pick up his Legos, and what do you get Sun, 27 May 2012 23:39:24 GMT 3a663f3f11e8885adf526f35f928ebb2 2012-05-27T23:39:24Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165801&44=154158005&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2F20120527_Planning_new_life_for_the__lsquo_Lower_Schuylkill_rsquo_.html Sun, 27 May 2012 16:09:41 GMT b7cd52bb94f94db5009073182a627274 2012-05-27T16:09:41Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167961&44=154425215&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2Fhomepage%2F20120526_ap_spainslenderbankiasaysitwontneedmoreaid.html The president of troubled Bankia tried Saturday to calm fears about the future of the bank, saying Spain's second largest mortgage lender will emerge as a solid financial entity after it receives (EURO)19 billion ($23.8 billion) in state aid in the country's biggest ever bank bailout. Sun, 27 May 2012 15:08:21 GMT f43676dcae070f8beb6c34e2c3d6e06b 2012-05-27T15:08:21Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167961&44=154749975&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2Fhomepage%2F20120527_ap_watchingdissidentsisaboomingbusinessinchina.html Every workday at 7:20 a.m., colleagues pick up Yao Lifa from his second-floor apartment and drive him to the elementary school where he taught for years. Sun, 27 May 2012 15:08:08 GMT 4a52753bf0f7a14192e6e698e8492324 2012-05-27T15:08:08Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165801&44=153765165&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2F20120527_Tina_Fey__the_arts__and_big_dreams.html Tina Fey was Frenchie, I was Rizzo. But the real star of our sold-out performances of Grease in high school was the Upper Darby School District — a place where kids like us from humble homes were taught not just English and algebra, but how to dream big, think big, and make big things happen. Sun, 27 May 2012 14:07:10 GMT fca71c6264325f01e8d44d4a6ce72af6 2012-05-27T14:07:10Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165801&44=154704975&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2F20120527_ap_senatorasksairlinestodropseatfeeforkids.html Sen. Charles Schumer is urging airlines to allow families with young children to sit together without paying extra. Sun, 27 May 2012 12:56:05 GMT e9af192017882f319b7d5621c1fd5b85 2012-05-27T12:56:05Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165801&44=154237935&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2F20120527_Ramping_up_to_use_natural_gas_as_a_motor_fuel.html In the 1990s, natural gas was promoted as the motor fuel of the future. Utilities opened refueling stations and government agencies traded in their dirty diesel trucks for vehicles fueled with clean compressed natural gas (CNG).The Lower Merion School District committed itself in a big way. It converted half its fleet of 113 buses to natural gas. The U.S. Department of Energy, which subsidized the conversion, called it "Pennsylvania’s primary success story for alternative fuels." It recently took delivery of nine new CNG buses. But some early adopters of natural-gas vehicles took an exit off the highway to the future. Sun, 27 May 2012 09:49:23 GMT 25d0612493176a873aa631fe2e8e97c4 2012-05-27T09:49:23Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165801&44=154632695&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2F20120527_Shore_real_estate_transactions.html Stay in touch down the Shore: Visit philly.com on your smartphone's Web browser for up-to- date weather and special holiday coverage. Sun, 27 May 2012 07:39:18 GMT 5af3d4ee611f28eab44d71e5c6c47696 2012-05-27T07:39:18Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165801&44=154230045&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2F20120527_Wegmans_completes_last_wing_of_Pottsville_distribution_center.html POTTSVILLE, Pa. — It’s a sprawling warehouse nearly one million square feet, with 103 loading docks for tractor-trailers to be filled with groceries that will eventually make their way to Wegmans supermarkets. Sun, 27 May 2012 07:16:52 GMT ac3268ef9895ac22578a98bf7791bfcd 2012-05-27T07:16:52Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165801&44=154613835&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2F20120527_Consumer_12_0__Facebook_rsquo_s_worth_is_known__in_more_than_just_cash.html What do Oc­cu­py Wall Street and Facebook’s high-pro­file stock splat have in com­mon? Both look a lot dif­fer­ent depending on where you sit — wheth­er, as the occupiers might put it, you’re in the 1 per­cent or the 99 per­cent.To the 1 percenters who bought in ear­ly and cashed out when Facebook shares went pub­lic at $38, all is good. They took a risk and made bazillions. To their less-hap­py breth­ren — such as the Wall Street in­vest­ment bankers who ap­par­ent­ly got greedy in pricing the stock, or the bro­ker­age executives dealing with investors burned when the NASDAQ went kablooie on opening day — this was a curve­ball when they expected an easy pitch to hit. Stuff happens; they’ll let the lawyers sort it out. To the 99 percenters, the stock splat was most­ly soap op­era, with one ex­cep­tion: Small "mom and pop" investors, usu­al­ly shut out of hot IPOs, were lured in un­usu­al numbers to Facebook’s offering. In­stead of the first-day "pop" in share prices that lucky 1 percenters can usu­al­ly count on, mom and pop got popped in the gut. It’s a shame that Mark Zuckerberg’s en­thu­si­asm for letting Facebook members into the game didn’t in­clude, say, a dis­count tick­et. Still, those are the risks of playing in the big leagues. Sun, 27 May 2012 07:15:55 GMT da9ba1273efab50106ee354bf2f60bd8 2012-05-27T07:15:55Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=332264&44=154265425&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2Ftechnology%2F20120527_Web_Wealth_By_Reid_Kanaley.html Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering, or IPO, started out as a cultural phenomenon and ended the week as another black eye for Wall Street. That may or may not make things hard for new IPOs. Sun, 27 May 2012 01:34:45 GMT bf410b372c1d69709a23786ade3a80e4 2012-05-27T01:34:45Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165801&44=152677315&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2F20120527_Haven__The_Walzer_home_in_Northeast_Philadelphia.html Michael Gerard Walzer has taken that old saying “A man’s home is his castle” to heart, quite literally transforming his home into one. From the outside, the circa-mid-1930s, three-story fieldstone-and-wood structure looks like any other in his Northwood neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia. But step beyond the curtain that separates the foyer from the living room, and the look and feel of a medieval castle (complete with two thrones) is immediately apparent. Sun, 27 May 2012 01:28:22 GMT 40e3db72578ba5866f3a39d8624ba559 2012-05-27T01:28:22Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165801&44=152331185&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2F20120527_On_the_House__Economic_recovery_remains_elusive.html Economic recovery is just around the corner. How often in the last four years have we read a report touting that eventuality, and the “bottoming out” of prices that the housing industry has been hoping for? Sun, 27 May 2012 01:27:51 GMT 9a53aee78195178046eae0a4e78fea76 2012-05-27T01:27:51Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167961&44=154313485&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2Fhomepage%2F20120526_For_Shore_merchants__the_make-it-or-break-it_season_begins.html Jersey Shore businesses are opening for a critical summer season with high hopes - and high stakes. Sat, 26 May 2012 20:29:20 GMT 58781275eeba4fcb142eedf25a430e49 2012-05-26T20:29:20Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=165801&44=154262015&32=3796&7=195352&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness%2F20120526_Siemens_plant_workers_detail_harassment_claims.html Welder Solomon Daniels had just grabbed his work clothes from his locker at the Siemens plant near Trenton when, he said, he saw the noose out of the corner of his eye, swinging from the shower curtain rod. Sat, 26 May 2012 15:11:57 GMT a1f448fd107af57ecd29b35d14a8340d 2012-05-26T15:11:57Z