You know that feeling when you've learned to use a program on your laptop or an app on your smartphone and the new version comes out and you have to relearn it? Multiply that feeling times 100 and you'll get a sense of the economic change taking place.
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BEWARE CANADA? Report calls it a looming rival for the region’s robust food and beverage operations
Three counties in the Greater Lehigh Valley – Berks, Lehigh and Northampton – long have been valued as a mecca for food and beverage manufacturing.
NEW VENTURES: Letterpress shop replaces well-known Jim Thorpe convenience store
A new business has opened in Jim Thorpe in a location known to many in the borough.
Importer, distributor strikes deal with Brazilian chocolatier
While Lehigh Products has been importing coffee since 2006, it did not open a physical business location until nearly a decade later.
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Need immediate care? Centers now offer online scheduling
Is it a cold or the flu? A sprain or a fracture? Allergies or a sinus infection?
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The last two decades have seen a lot of change in how business operates and how consumers buy products and services.
Small businesses quick to cash in on Pokemon Go fad
The way Alex Kalogeropoulos describes it, you couldn't throw a Pokéball on Hamilton Street in Allentown without hitting someone playing the hot, new mobile phone app game, Pokémon Go.
Help from St. Luke’s just what the doctors ordered in Africa
Africa may seem like a long way for a Lehigh Valley doctor to make a house call, but in a way that's exactly what some physicians from St. Luke's University Health Network have been doing the past two years.
Using direct primary care for better health, lower costs
Each year brings greater costs and larger financial burdens for employers and employees to maintain health insurance.
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5 QUESTIONS WITH Laura J. Mertz, Populytics and Lehigh Valley Physician Hospital Organization
(Laura J. Mertz is administrator, sales, marketing and business development at Populytics Inc. in Allentown and general manager, Lehigh Valley Physician Hospital Organization Inc./Valley Preferred in South Whitehall Township.)
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