Women innovators will compete in the second Great Dames Remarkable Ideas Competition, hoping to secure $25,000 in seed money and services. Last year, 41 women from seven states competed, and a Delaware woman was selected. This year’s theme is health and wellness. The contest is split into three events: DEDO Director Bernice Whaley will help initiate…
Hagley Museum & Library now has the world’s largest private collection of patent models, second only to the Smithsonian Institution. Approximately 100 of the patent models are on display in the Copeland Room at the Hagley Library. These one-of-a-kind models range from an apparatus for drying cloth and a variety of gears to a brass…
NEW YORK (AP) — The government wants to make it easier for you to buy and use cable boxes from companies other than your cable provider. This could help companies like TiVo, Roku and Apple deliver a cable feed, too, as part of their video recorders or streaming-TV devices. Introducing competition could also help lower…
Newark, Del. — Main Street Movies 5 will open a five-screen, state-of-the-art movie theater with reserved, reclining seats and refreshments from local vendors at the Newark Shopping Center in August. The new theater will replace the shuttered Newark Cinema Center, which operated from the early 1960’s through Oct. 2015. Main Street Movies 5 has signed…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com has turned over the media company to a nonprofit institute in the hope that a new business model will help them survive the digital age and stanch years of layoffs and losses. Local philanthropist H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest, who bought the…
By Christi Milligan The year 2016 may signal the reign of mobile advertising, but experts say the real star of the new year is the simple nuts and bolts of any marketing strategy: Know your brand and know your audience. And while digital is breaking records when it comes to ad dollars, marketing professionals suggest…
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A Delaware filmmaking duo’s film has been chosen to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Wilmington filmmakers JJ Garvine and Tai Parquet’s documentary “Film Hawk” will debut at the festival in Park City, Utah on Jan. 24. Garvine and Parquet will attend a directors-only brunch with festival founder Robert Redford, but…
ab+c Creative Intelligence celebrated its new Center City office with a ribbon cutting and cocktail party. ab+c is the largest marketing agency in Delaware and is making a huge commitment to Philadelphia, taking over a whole floor at 1429 Walnut Street, which will serve as its Philly headquarters. Guests at the party included local business people and…
By Christi Milligan As Delaware advances its position toward the forefront of tech and entrepreneurial activity, Wilmington will play host to Delaware Innovation Week, an ambitious celebration of technology that promises 22 events in nine days, beginning Nov. 13. Organized by Technical.ly Delaware and presented by 1313 Innovation, the event is modeled after top tech…
Hagley Museum presents a new exhibit “Driving Desire: Automobile Advertising and the American Dream” which examines the psychology behind a truly American symbol. The exhibit documents the rise of the first car ads from 1912 to the era of “Mad Men” marketing — and invites visitors to question their relationships with their vehicles. It focuses…
