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Inquirer Business Update: Report: Phila. manufacturing weak, but showing optimism
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The Philadelphia region's manufacturing sector showed continued weakness this month but also showed a glimmer of optimism, according to a monthly report released this morning by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve.
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The Inc. 500 list is always fun to read even if a Philadelphia-area company rarely lands near the top.
Each year, the magazine seeks out the fastest-growing companies in the United States by revenues. It’s a celebration of unbridled entrepreneurial activity, where growth rates of 2,000 percent are commonplace. Starting last year, Inc. expanded its list to a dizzying 5,000 companies, perhaps to assuage all of the areas that are not Silicon Valley and Boston, which dominate the list every year.
Demand for engineers and other tech pros is holding up better than expected in the recession, if pay levels are an indicator, says Yoh Services LLC of Philadelphia after surveying 9,000 hiring managers.
Today's Inquirer
Comcast Corp. says an experimental method for managing the Internet could slow speeds for all heavy online users for 10 to 20 minutes. The company said it's doing so to satisfy an FCC order.
The partnership leaps over Fox Chase, which pondered expanding into the state.
The battle for cancer patients in Delaware is heating up.
Two months after Fox Chase Cancer Center said it was considering a second campus in northern Delaware, its biggest rival, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, announced its first foothold in the state.
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