Pittsburgh ranked 13th in the global Emerging Ecosystem featured in Startup Genome’s 2022 Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER) released at London Tech Week last week. Startup Genome is a policy...
Read More
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced Monday that it will partner with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to launch and host the 2022 Global Clean Energy Action Forum in Pittsburgh on Sept. 21-2...
Read More
Jennifer Berrier, state Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) secretary, recently visited Fortyx80, which provides opportunities for nontraditional job seekers to acquire the skills needed to enter the...
Read More
The Senate State Government Committee recently held a hearing on Senate Bill 1140, legislation that would make small, diverse, and veteran-owned businesses more competitive regarding how the state awa...
Read More
Gov. Tom Wolf recently signed Act 24 of 2022, establishing a competitive process to accept sale proposals for the 20.2-acre SCI Pittsburgh property. The former prison facility is located on the sho...
Read More
The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency announced Monday it is accepting bids for the purchase of $4.5 million in mixed-use development tax credits. The tax credits will benefit the state in two w...
Read More
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) will partner with Longfellow Real Estate partners to develop a new 455,000-square-foot life sciences research, development, and manufacturing facility, the organi...
Read More
The Frontier Group of Companies (FGC), a North American real estate and brownfield redevelopment company, announced Wednesday it had acquired two retired Energy Harbor coal-fired plants, including one...
Read More
Butler Health System and Excela Health recently agreed to combine into a new health system serving western Pennsylvania. The new health system will support five hospitals, employ more than 1,000 ph...
Read More
On Friday, Cranberry Township-based Westinghouse announced it had expanded its agreements with Energoatom, the state-owned nuclear utility of Ukraine. Westinghouse said the new agreement allows it...
Read More
U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) hosted U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, as well as business, government, and student representatives from Chester County, for a tour and roundtable at Vishay...
Read More
On Thursday, Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) Secretary Jennifer Berrier visited the Philadelphia OIC, a workforce development and job-training center. The Philadelphia Region Hospitality and E...
Read More
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) recently invited Pittston-based Renewable Energy Aggregators (REA), a developer of renewable energy for electric vehicle (EV) charging in...
Read More
Bowery Farming recently opened its largest, most technologically advanced, and sustainable commercial smart farm in Bethlehem. The company -- the largest vertical farming company in the United Sta...
Read More
The Penn State Behrend campus in Erie will hold the annual Innovation and Emerging Plastics Technologies Conference on June 8 and 9. “The conference will focus on some of the trends we’re seein...
Read More
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently granted Pittsburgh-based Noveome Biotherapeutics the Rare Pediatric Disease Designation (RPDD) and Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) for its ST266 drug...
Read More
The Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) recently awarded Apprentice Training for the Electrical Industry (ATEI) $296,936 through the state’s Pre-Apprentice and Apprenticeship Gra...
Read More
Pittsburgh International Airport and CNX Resources Corp., a gas development, production, midstream, and technology company, have entered the next phase of their partnership to reduce carbon emissions....
Read More
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities have approved a proposal by Fulton Financial Corp. to acquire Prudential Bancorp, the holding company...
Read More
The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s board of directors recently approved $150,000 to be distributed to five companies in loans with warrants. Each company will rec...
Read More