Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News: Business

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If you travel, your high speed Internet access account may have just gotten more useful. This morning five major cable companies - Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable - announced a joint partnership to enable free access at local Wi-Fi hotspots for customers of any participating provider.

Many people dream of opening their own business. But some would-be entrepreneurs are finding that state licensing requirements are so arduous that it would take years and thousands of dollars before they ever would be able to hang out a shingle.

They were 12 hairy years in Sherman Barton’s life. The Burlington County resident worked in military intelligence for the U.S. Army in Germany and Italy from 1972 to 1984, getting shot three separate times while hunting terrorists, he said.

Not everyone has a knack for turning trash into treasure. Enter Kay Kling, who sees a pile of debris in much the same way a sculptor sees a slab of marble:

I don’t know what I’d do without my iPhone, which is kind of funny when you consider that I put off accepting one until three years after it debuted in 2007.

Couples retiring this year can expect their medical bills throughout retirement to cost 4 percent more than those who retired a year ago, according to an annual projection released this month by Fidelity Investments.

Europe’s a puzzle. People over there stopped having babies — but they don’t like immigrants, either. Who do they think will staff their nursing homes? Or pay for them?

Like the fabled Japanese soldiers who stayed in foxholes in remote South Pacific islands years after the end of World War II because they didn’t know the conflict was over, opponents of the move of the Barnes Foundation to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway battle on.

Chrysler is recalling nearly 87,000 Jeep Wranglers in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere due to a risk of fires.