Four businesses in Dauphin and Cumberland counties were awarded more than $300,000 through the state’s Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) tax credit program this month.
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Roofers improve social media ads with Lancaster software company
A Leola-based roofing equipment company set out to build an app that would improve its social media outreach, but found that roofers weren’t the only businesses that needed help with this form of advertising.
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Workforce plan expects growth in health care, construction jobs; decline in manufacturing
From now until Jan. 21, state officials are accepting comments for Gov. Tom Wolf’s federally mandated four-year workforce development plan, which seeks to coordinate the efforts of the state's educational institutions, economic development programs and employers of the region’s major industries to create a pathway to optimal employment.
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Philadelphia Eagles partner with Lebanon County-based IT services company
Lebanon County-based software and technology company Candoris signed a three-year partnership with the Philadelphia Eagles to improve the football team’s IT infrastructure.
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D&H Distributing kicks off new era in 101st year
D&H Distributing, a major provider of small-to-medium-sized business, education and consumer technologies in North America, and one of the largest privately-owned companies in the nation, formally opened its new headquarters in Lower Paxton Township Wednesday. The 101-year-old business, founded in Williamsport and headquartered on Seventh Street in Harrisburg for the past 67 years, is now ...
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D&H Distributing opens ‘Google of the East’ in Lower Paxton
Having a bright red, one-story, playground-quality corkscrew slide in your office doesn’t automatically qualify you as a progressive, forward-thinking workplace, but let’s be honest, it doesn’t hurt. That is one of the first things you’ll see if you walk into the building at 100 Tech Drive in Lower Paxton Township. Formerly home to Amp Inc., ...
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Lawn care app’s popularity in Harrisburg growing like a weed
Green River Landscape in Mechanicsburg serves more 40 residential customers in Lehigh County, and more across the state, a number that would be nearly impossible to manage alongside the company’s other clients if it wasn’t for the help of a California-based phone application.
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Double-edged sword: Digital technology can help businesses – except when it doesn’t
A pair of chainwide cash register crashes at Target Corp. in June, right around the heavy-sales Father’s Day weekend, may have cost the national retailer $50 million to $100 million in lost sales, according to some analysts. The problems — one of which the company blamed on a “technology glitch,” while another was traced to a tech center run by NCR Corp. — were quickly corrected, but they also point to a deeper issue, said some local experts: Technology has helped to boost business productivity, but it’s also exposed companies to a host of challenges.
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Harrisburg University hires director for new center designed to support startups
Harrisburg University has hired an executive director for its new Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
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