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| Sep 10, 2014 | Our takeaways from last night’s Start. Stay. Grow. Summit | First there was the Center City building boom. Then the urbanist foundation of a young professional creative class. Now talent retention efforts in Philadelphia need to turn to specific sectors.
This is a damn cool place to stay after colle... |
| Jun 30, 2014 | Virtual reality meetup; Indy Hall BBQ [Events Roundup] | Philadelphia now has its own virtual reality meetup. Indy Hall has its Fourth of July BBQ.
And then there’s this: Want to build your own razorbot? That’s a robot that can battle in the ring. Hackerspace Hive76 is teaching a class in August,... |
| Feb 17, 2014 | Philly Codefest // Hive76 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art [EVENTS] | Here’s to one week without snow.
This week: Philly celebrates Code Across America, Hive76 takes to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and technologists try to solve accessibility problems.
Philly Codefest: Part of Code Across America 2014, this... |
| Apr 19, 2013 | VisitPhilly.com launches local guide for these 14 neighborhoods | The Greater Philadelphia Tourism and Marketing Corporation (GPTMC) wants you to venture out of your neighborhood, and it’s hoping Instagram photos, Foursquare check-ins and GPTMC’s blog, Uwishunu, can entice you.
Philly Tech Week events in ... |
| Mar 26, 2013 | Announcing 7 Philly Tech Week 2013 micro-grant recipients | In an effort to help groups in the community host great events they might not otherwise be able to during this year’s Philly Tech Week 2013 presented by AT&T, Technically Philly posted a call for submissions for modest micro-grants in l... |
| Jun 15, 2012 | CityControllers releases WatchDog App for Android, claims National Award of Excellence [LINKS] | Controller iPhone app wins prize [Daily News] From a press release announcing the release of the app for Android: “The National Association of Government Communicators recently honored the Controller’s Office with an Award of Excellence for... |
| Apr 27, 2012 | Philly Tech Week 2012 coverage [LINKS] | It’s the tail-end of the second annual Philly Tech Week presented by AT&T, so why not take a look at some of the wider coverage of 10 days celebrating innovation, creativity and craft in the region? If we missed any, please let us know.... |
| Jan 27, 2012 | InterDigital stocks tumble after soaring after acquisition talk [Links] | A look at Cipher Prime’s ‘Splice’ [Inquirer] — Geekadelphia’s Eric Smith pens a column
New Jersey man turns campaign stint into software success [Inquier] — “Together they spent 20-hour days devising a social-media tool – a “game-changer,” ... |
| Jan 20, 2012 | New location for NextFab Studios, computer center in Frankford [Links] | Soapy: an even better anti-SOPA browser plugin [boingboing] — From West Philly’s Griffin Boyce
NextFab Studio is expanding from University City to a second location on Washington Avenue in South Philadelphia, NakedPhilly reports.
Mayor Nutt... |
| Nov 25, 2011 | AppsLabs founder Sashi Reddi seeking young engineers for software testing roles [LINKS] | AppLabs founder Reddi back on startup scene in Phila. [Philadelphia Business Journal]
Urban Outfitters Losing Investors With Failing Fashions [Bloomberg]
Geek of the Week: Adam Schmidt of Drink Philly & Nation [Geekadelphia] — We told y... |
| Nov 11, 2011 | FactCheck.org launches spoof site to combat lies in politics [LINKS] | Bentley Systems buys 2 software companies [Philadelphia Business Journal] — Bentley “has bought an English software company and an Australian software company for sums it did not disclose.”
Aweber announces enhanced web form integration for... |
| Jun 24, 2011 | Why the Chamber of Commerce opposes three recent City Council measures: Links [VIDEO] | New technology to fight Medicare, Medicaid fraud announced in Philly [Inquirer]
Statement from the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce [Chamber blog] — The group is not pleased with trifecta of City Council measures, including a real e... |
| Apr 29, 2011 | The 2011 Philly Tech Week calendar: Friday | Excited, Philadelphia? Tonight we celebrate Philadelphia’s technology community at our Signature Event, where there will be an open bar, delicious food and a keynote from Rich Negrin, Managing Director of the City Of Philadelphia, about the... |
| Apr 28, 2011 | The 2011 Philly Tech Week calendar: Thursday | With only three full days left to go of the inaugural Philly Tech Week, if you’re not already up and at ’em for the second day of Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, we’re expecting you to hit your third wind at about 12:00 p.m., just... |
| Apr 26, 2011 | The 2011 Philly Tech Week calendar: Tuesday | Kicked off yesterday, Philly Tech Week features a pair of events about the cloud, including one for nonprofits, the future of music technology, the much hyped Printer Smash, the second installment of Switch Philly and plenty more.
After the... |
| Apr 25, 2011 | The 2011 Philly Tech Week calendar: Monday | The big week is finally here. We start off Philly Tech week with a bang with the unveiling of OpenDataPhilly.org, the first ever Philly Content Strategy Meetup, A Junto about shelter and technology and First Round Capital Open Office Hours.... |
| Feb 25, 2011 | Pittsburgh is the best place to live in the U.S. and other Links | It’s official: Pittsburgh is best place to live in U.S. (it even beats Honolulu) [Daily Mail] — Philly isn’t even in the Top 10 of U.S. cities, being beaten by D.C., Chicago, Atlanta and, yes, Detroit.
Changing Skyline: What does GlaxoSmith... |
| Feb 10, 2011 | Hive76: “If we knew what we were doing, we wouldn’t be hackers. We’d be engineers” | The walls of the Hive76 headquarters are lined with part bins containing all types of electronic doodads from circuit boards to transistors in a kind of organized chaos that bespeaks the organization’s DIY cyberpunk attitude.
“If we knew wh... |
| Feb 9, 2011 | Startup Roundup: TicketLeap takes a plunge | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Dec 6, 2010 | Event Highlights: December 6th – 13th, 2010 | The funny thing about the upcoming holidays is that all of Philadelphia tries to pack in their events in first few weeks of December leaving us with a jam packed events calendar. Luckily, we comb through all of the tech listings to pluck ou... |
| Oct 18, 2010 | Event Highlights: October 18th – 24th, 2010 | Thank the Great Oswalt, it’s Monday in Philadelphia; and you know what that means: three can’t-miss technology events.
For the record, we would have listed the Philly Startup Leaders Entrepreneurs Unplugged event this week, but it has been ... |
| Aug 2, 2010 | Event Highlights: August 1 – August 6, 2010 | If you can manage to pry yourself away from the gut-wrenching saga that is the 2010 Phillies, this is a great week to be out and about in the tech scene.
This week stretch your creative muscles at the Guitar Effects Study Group on Monday, l... |
| Apr 5, 2010 | Event Highlights for April 5th – 11th, 2010 | Update: Edited Hive76 event.
I hope you left next weekend open, Philadelphia, because our event calendar should give you plenty to do this Saturday.
First, you can head to the hometown of our very Brian James Kirk for BarCamp Harrisburg 2. ... |
| Jan 18, 2010 | Event Highlights for January 18-24, 2010 | You’ve spent the last two weeks getting back in the swing of things, and you’re hoping to close out January as a strong first month. Jump on a couple events this week as the year continues to open up.
On Monday, stretch those learning muscl... |
| Jan 4, 2010 | Event Highlights for January 4 – 10, 2010 | Updated: Added Technically Philly’s Wednesday meetup.
Still recovering from those weekend hangovers? We feel you. There’s not much going on this week, so rest up, friends. It’ll be time to get back in gear soon enough.
Monday, Hive76’s Jack... |
| Dec 4, 2009 | Friday Q&A: Far McKon of hacker space Hive76 | After moving into a new, larger studio down the hall from its original location in the Poplar neighborhood, DIY hacker space Hive 76 is celebrating.
“We had a good year. We were nonexistant to a big space and now we have a huge crew of peop... |
| Nov 13, 2009 | Links: Google acquisition with Wharton ties, CoTweet trying paid services and More | DEFINITE READS
Gawker’s Valleywag blog profiles Omar Hamoui, who founded AdMob, the mobile advertising company Google recently purchased for $750 million, while at Wharton. H/T Philly Tech News
The Philadelphia Business Journal’s Peter Key ... |