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| Mar 7, 2013 | 5 technologies that helped Obama raise $1 billion for his re-election and the Germantown native who helped | Since his 200-person data-crunching, A/B testing, social media-focused communications and technology team helped deliver President Obama reelection, those who led his strategy have taken to speaking tours to spread the gospel.
Among them is... |
| Mar 5, 2013 | Lehigh U entrepreneurship master’s part of Bethlehem-area innovation | When you have a great idea, there is no reason to wait.
That’s the motto at Lehigh University‘s Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation—the home of its master’s degree in technical entrepreneurship program, which lau... |
| Feb 27, 2013 | ‘Bring Your Own Device’ could increase digital literacy training in classrooms | How do you bring technology to classrooms in budget strapped districts? By sheer will.
That’s about what we heard from educators at this weekend’s TechCamp Education and January’s EdTech meetup before it. And in Philadelphia, to keep up wit... |
| Feb 21, 2013 | Springside Chestnut Hill Academy: private K-12 school does entrepreneurship | While some educators are still talking about how to encourage entrepreneurship among high school students, one elite Philadelphia private K-12 school has launched what it is calling the first entrepreneurship leadership program of its kind ... |
| Feb 20, 2013 | RedSnake Philly 2013 has lightning talks on Ruby and Python trends in ‘Search Church’ | Group shot taken at RedSnake by organizer Mat Schaffer.
As comes with active, two-decade-old programming languages, what is possible within the framework continues to evolve.
So the third annual RedSnake Philly event, featuring nearly a doz... |
| Feb 19, 2013 | Bootstrapping Philosophy: ‘investment is a tool, not a goal’ and 5 other reasons to self-fund your startup | Firefly cofounders meet regularly in First Round Capital’s office space in University City. From L to R: Justin Meltzer, Patrick Leahy and Dan Shipper.
In December, the trio behind Firefly, the browser screen sharing service that spun off t... |
| Feb 19, 2013 | Startup Weekend Health Philly 2 features secure mobile app for emergency health info [VIDEO] | David Bendell (right) and his In Case of Emergency team accepted first place at Startup Weekend Health.
A secure mobile app, called In Case of Emergency or mICE, took top billing at Philadelphia’s second Startup Weekend Health. Doctors, dev... |
| Feb 15, 2013 | EdTech community seeks partnership in Northeast Corridor [VIDEO] | Panelists answered questions from Co-founder of Technically Philly Brian James Kirk.
By connecting teachers, entrepreneurs and technologists, Philadelphia is pulling together the pieces of an early edtech community. And through collaboratio... |
| Feb 14, 2013 | Campus Philly: college attraction and retention nonprofit grows interest in tech jobs pipeline | If the technology community is gaining credibility as a jobs creator in Philadelphia, and the focus has turned to strengthen the pipeline between university students and employers, then Campus Philly wants to play a valuable role.
Such was ... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | PANMA: Philly’s oldest surviving web meetup group spurred the meetup revolution | Take a world of narrow niche interests and add an incredibly powerful communication tool. That’s the meetup revolution, in which people find others using the Internet and then come together in person regularly to share those interests.
In t... |
| Jan 31, 2013 | PhillyPolice.com, Project Liberty, Seed Philly: an update on January news of the recent past | As January 2013 closes, what has come and what remains from past first-months in the technology community?
A year ago, Center City tech startup incubator Seed Philly launched and is still finding its footing. Two years ago, we learned of a ... |
| Dec 10, 2012 | Bootstrapping in Philadelphia: why focusing on revenue, rather than investment, fits here [VIDEO] | When John Fazio and Chris Alfano tried to open their own video game center after dropping out of Drexel, they became increasingly frustrated with trying to raise capital the way they say their business classes had taught them, by trying to ... |
| Nov 19, 2012 | Philadelphia University welcomes design, entreprenurial spirit to industrial legacy [VIDEO] | Philadelphia University Director of Industrial Design graduate program Ted Corlett showed off a student’s project: a panel made of plyboo.
For a small, industrial arts college founded in 1884 to improve textile manufacturing, the 60 undergr... |
| Nov 12, 2012 | School of the Future: 10 years after concept, School District and Microsoft partnership prepares for new future | Administrators and educators gathered to undergo additional technology training and talk about new initiatives at a professional development day on Nov. 6.
In 2006, West Philadelphia’s School of the Future opened boldly, expecting every stu... |
| Oct 8, 2012 | EEB Hub aims to reduce commercial energy use 20% by 2020 | The newly rebranded, federally-funded, Navy Yard-based Energy Efficient Buildings Hub recently did an experiment.
Its staff had an energy audit done on Building 101 in the Navy Yard – the EEB Hub headquarters – from three different comp... |
| Oct 1, 2012 | Hydros Bottle: reusable water filtration bottle company expands, goals for social, U.S. manufacturing impact [VIDEO] | The social impact focus of Hydros Bottle, the nearly four-year-old quick-fill, water-filtering reusable bottle company from a pair of University of Pennsylvania alumni, continues to spread.
Partnered with Whole Foods for retailing, the mode... |
| Sep 26, 2012 | Comcast Internet Essentials launches year two: low-cost web-access program aims to rebound locally [VIDEO] | Reverend Robert Johnson had to cut cable and Internet from his home when he gave up his job as an office manager to become a pastor.
“It was rough on my 15 year old daughter being in the house without Internet and cable,” he said. “Sometime... |
| Sep 26, 2012 | The Reckoner!: year-old quirky ‘Thunderdome for decision-making’ [VIDEO] | Nearly a year old, quirky, online debate forum The Reckoner! crossed the 300,000 total unique visitors mark this month. And that’s with founder Dan Koch seeing it as a side project since he joined Old City mobile development shop appRenaiss... |
| Sep 25, 2012 | Philly one of 10 U.S. cities with most fastest growing businesses: why this and other city rankings matter | Photo by Brian James Kirk.
If city-ranking lists are among the least challenging of editorial outputs often built on suspect metrics, they do purport to do something really well: convey perception with about as much in-born virality as can ... |
| Sep 24, 2012 | ‘Spoiled’ app to avoid wasted food wins Lean Startup Machine Philly 2 honors | The NightBliss team posed for a photo before their presentation.
The second local iteration of Lean Startup Machine, the buzzy paid workshop and methodology that has entrepreneurs launch a business in just a three-day period, was held at Ca... |
| Sep 20, 2012 | Temple Entrepreneurship Open House features PHmHEALTH | In its ongoing effort to cast light on its years-long blossoming of startup preparation, Temple University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute in the Fox School of Business held its 2012 Entrepreneurship Open House Wednesday.
More t... |
| Jun 26, 2012 | The Philadelphia Building: RJMetrics, Eight Eleven, Zivtech start web business community at 1315 Walnut Street [VIDEO] | In recent years, coworking conversations have been typically driven by communities of independent workers sharing a single office, and, in Philadelphia, they have most often taken place in more affordable neighborhoods outside of Center Cit... |
| Jun 20, 2012 | N3rd Street: tech business corridor from Old City to Northern Liberties | A stretch of North Third Street in Philadelphia is on its way to acquiring a new moniker: N3rd Street.
In recent years, the corridor from roughly Market Street in Old City through Northern Liberties has been gradually filling with nerd-cent... |
| Jun 15, 2012 | Network of Women in Computer Technology hosts 31st annual conference | The following is a report done in partnership with Temple University’s Philadelphia Neighborhoods program, the capstone class for the Temple’s Department of Journalism.
With the number of women in America earning doctoral degrees in compute... |
| May 4, 2012 | For talented, dedicated and hilarious local online comedy scene, where’s the audience? | It’s a total run time of 11:11 of pure black-and-white video, sitting in the center of a black page on an interactive flash website.
“I’m wrapped up in the custody battle over our dog Wrango. I mean, I don’t know who should get [Wrango] bec... |
| Mar 28, 2012 | Media Bureau Network: founder Ben Barnett sells Northern Liberties HQ | For some, it’s hard to say goodbye to the 12,000 square feet of memories on 3rd and Brown Street in Northern Liberties.
After 13 years in its brick layered and artistically decorated home, digital media agency Media Bureau Network is moving... |
| Feb 27, 2012 | Meet the Roberto Clemente Middle School robotics club in Hunting Park | At Roberto Clemente Middle School in Hunting Park, 4 p.m. may be after school, but for the student members of the robotics club, it is the beginning of learning new and exciting technology.
Every Tuesday and Thursday, 5th through 8th grader... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Robotics reaches Philadelphia students at all levels | The following is a report done in partnership with Temple University’s Philadelphia Neighborhoods Program, the capstone class for the Temple Journalism Department.
Without raising the alarm of an artificial intelligence-fueled planet takeov... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | PyStar Philly offers Python training for women, part of female tech scene | The following is a report done in partnership with Temple University’s Philadelphia Neighborhoods Program, the capstone class for the Temple Journalism Department.
A perception exists that computer programming is dominated by males, though ... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | PredictiveEdge launches Proactive Parenting Network, new tool for child-safe browsing | The following is a report done in partnership with Temple University’s Philadelphia Neighborhoods Program, the capstone class for the Temple Journalism Department.
Hanging from one of the cabinets of PredictiveEdge CEO Bill Thompson’s desk ... |
| Jun 15, 2011 | Alexandre Scialom takes top prizes at Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan, NFTE sends winner to the White House | The following is a report done in partnership with Temple University’s Philadelphia Neighborhoods Program, the capstone class for the Temple Journalism Department.
theCourseBook, billed by its founder as “Yelp for adult education” won Thurs... |
| Jun 8, 2011 | Augmented Reality by PhillyHistory.org and Azavea launches on iPhone, Android | The following is a report done in partnership with Temple University’s Philadelphia Neighborhoods Program, the capstone class for the Temple Journalism Department.
In February 2010, the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digita... |
| Sep 21, 2010 | A male dominated field? One woman’s take | This story is completed in partnership with Temple University’s journalism capstone class Philadelphia Neighborhoods. Students Tracy Galloway and Maria Zankey will cover technology issues through December.
Nancy Massey says she’s from “the ... |
| Aug 31, 2009 | TNT: The state of hyperlocal online news in Philadelphia | Sarah Lockard should take more walks.
Earlier this summer, the Wayne native was on a long stroll when she decided she should contact Internet craft supply marketplace Etsy about working with AroundMainLine.com, the online magazine startup s... |
