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The Google Play app store on an Android phone in 2020. (Dreamstime/TNS)

Technology

U.S. judge orders sweeping changes to Google’s Android app store

A federal judge ordered the tech giant to open Google Play to competition. Google said it would appeal the decision.

Shira Ovide, Washington Post

A ramp for people who use wheelchairs inside a building. Physical accessibility is one factor to consider in making sure a business complies with the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Small Business

What small businesses need to know about ADA violations

Gene Marks

Dennis Williams (left), Senior Vice President, Late Stage Development and Mark Stielow (right), Vice President U.S. Manufacturing and Technical Operations at Adaptimmune in the Navy Shipyard, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. After getting approval for a new type of cancer therapy (Tecelra) that uses the immune system to target cancer cells, the company is gearing up for patient orders to arrive.

Health

A Navy Yard biotech designed a first-of-its-kind therapy for rare cancer. Now, it waits for patients.

Alison McCook

Charged Lemonade from a Panera Bread store in the Queens borough of New York on Dec. 12.

Philadelphia

Panera Bread settles wrongful-death lawsuit filed by family of Penn student who died after drinking ‘Charged Lemonade’

Abraham Gutman

The owners of these tiny Shore homes are still hanging on despite increased property values and massive new-construction homes springing up all around them. (Clockwise from top left: The Brigantine home of Joanne Petrosina, the Wildwood Crest home of Mike Clark, and the Stone Harbor home of Scott and Mary Peiffer.)

Residential

Can’t get enough of tiny Shore homes? Here are more beach bungalows from Brigantine to Wildwood.

Erin McCarthy and Ariana Perez-Castells

Economy

Opinion

PennDot could keep I-95 from bigfooting Philadelphia by supporting transit

Given the urgency of fighting climate change, PennDot needs to stop widening its highways to accommodate traffic and instead get more people to ride transit.

Inga Saffron

Jay Arzu, a doctoral candidate in urban planning at the University of Pennsylania, believes PennDot should focus on improving transit instead of widening I-95. He has single-handedly resurrected a proposal to build a Roosevelt Boulevard subway, which would give motorists an alternative to the highway.

Opinion

PennDot could keep I-95 from bigfooting Philadelphia by supporting transit

Given the urgency of fighting climate change, PennDot needs to stop widening its highways to accommodate traffic and instead get more people to ride transit.

Inga Saffron

Business