The progress of innovation in manufacturing and the availability of investment capital have created an environment that’s primed for merger and acquisition activity in 2020.

Lancaster County’s Stoudts Brewing Co., which served as one of the early pioneers in the microbrewery renaissance in the U.S., will cease operations in a few months.

The Globe-News Wire website reported the telecom cloud market is predicted to reach $55.3 billion by 2026. Cloud infrastructure and information technology (IT) advances are credited with boosting the market, the report said.

After working in the corporate world for many years, one Easton resident is banking on his love barbering to carry him in his new role as the owner of The Keystone Barbershop. Nathan Storck is planning to open his new business in mid-March in downtown Easton.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared Olympus Corporation of the Americas to sell a revised version of a medical device used to examine a patient’s internal organs. Olympus revised the device, called a duodenoscope, after it was linked to outbreaks of a potentially deadly bacteria.

PennEast Pipeline Co. LLC of Wyomissing is seeking federal approval to build a natural gas pipeline between Pennsylvania and New Jersey in two phases.

A retired executive with PSECU, the credit union of Pennsylvania state employees, is one of four finalists for the nationwide CU Hero of the Year Award from the Credit Union National Association.

City Center Investment Corp. of Allentown and Lafayette’s Dyer Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship said they launched The Real Estate Lab, a program to teach downtown Allentown residents about real estate investing, with the goal of helping them become successful.

Allentown had 486 new businesses open in the city in 2019, an increase of 19% from 2018, said Mayor Ray O’Connell during his annual State of the City address.

The vice president of the Pennsylvania Association of Nurse Anesthetists (PANA) will step down to become the association’s first director of government relations.