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| Aug 23, 2018 | What’s the latest on the KOP rail project? | In case you didn’t hear, a 4.5-mile extension of the Norristown High Speed Line (NHSL) connecting King of Prussia, Pa., with Center City and University City is in the early stages of development.
The King of Prussia Rail project is expected... |
| Jun 5, 2018 | Philly startup HeavyWater gets acquired by Florida-based Black Knight | A publicly-traded data analytics company in Jacksonville, Fla., saw value in a Philly startup called HeavyWater — makers of an artificial intelligence platform aimed at mortgage processing.
Mortgage services firm Black Knight announced Mond... |
| Feb 17, 2016 | 4 Facts Confirming Philadelphia’s Status of Hot Investment Destination |
Read on and discover this year’s findings that answer why the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is becoming a favorite for investors:
#3 on list of 52 best places to visit in 2015
The recognition hasn’t come from some unhear... |
| Jul 29, 2015 | Textizen just got acquired by GovDelivery |
Textizen, the civic tech startup from Code for America fellow Michelle Lee, has been acquired by government communications platform GovDelivery, Textizen announced this morning. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Textizen’s team is spli... |
| Jul 28, 2015 | Textizen just got acquired by GovDelivery | Textizen, the civic tech startup from Code for America fellow Michelle Lee, has been acquired by government communications platform GovDelivery, Textizen announced this morning. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Textizen’s team is split... |
| Jul 7, 2015 | Indego bike share apps are the new SEPTA apps | As soon as Philly’s bike share program, Indego, launched in April, the city released a real-time data feed of the status of each of the system’s bike docks.
Indego plans to use the data to tweak the program accordingly (like adding more bik... |
| Apr 24, 2015 | SEPTA Key payment system launches (quietly) for senior citizens | The oft–delayed SEPTA Key, the transit authority’s smartcard payment system, is live for senior citizens, Billy Penn reported. Those 65 and up can use their driver’s license with the SEPTA Key turnstiles that have been installed around the ... |
| Apr 14, 2015 | An 8-story, $25M bet that Market East becomes a tech corridor | Can the shabby stretch of Market Street from City Hall to Independence Mall become the city’s next tech corridor? A group of real estate developers thinks so.
They envision floor after floor of offices for the creative class — you know the ... |
| Dec 9, 2014 | How tech savvy are Philly’s 2015 mayoral hopefuls? We did some Googling | Between Mayor Nutter’s StartUp PHL initiative and the strides his administration has made in the open data arena, it’s clear that our current mayor has done much to champion tech in his two terms in office.
But what about Philly’s 2015 mayo... |
| Oct 7, 2014 | Councilman Jim Kenney wants to talk about ridesharing | Councilman Jim Kenney proposed a bill last week calling for hearings on legalizing ridesharing — meaning apps like Sidecar, Lyft and Uber.
The move was prompted by two state bills currently under consideration, one that would legalize rides... |
| Dec 26, 2013 | This youth program plans to install 5,000 solar panels on 20 school roofs | The Philadelphia Solar Schools Initiative plans to install 5,000 solar panels on 20 school roofs, starting in 2014, according to a release.
Students at YouthBuild Charter School will design and install the panels, investors will finance the... |
| Dec 2, 2013 | How Northeast High School tripled college-eligible test scores in 6 years | Updated: The video included in this story incorrectly spells the name of one student. Her name is actually spelled Jenny Hoang.
As one of the oldest and most diverse schools in Philadelphia, Northeast High School is used to change.
In 2010,... |
| Dec 2, 2013 | How Northeast High School tripled college-eligible test scores in 6 years | As one of the oldest and most diverse schools in Philadelphia, Northeast High School is used to change.
In 2010, the school decided to completely overhaul its Advanced Placement program with the hopes of improving student participation and ... |
| Aug 7, 2013 | Text alerts for delays and more perks with SEPTA’s 2014 upgrades | By next summer, SEPTA riders will be able to use smart cards, instead of tokens, to ride buses, trolleys and subways, according SEPTA management. That’s not the only perk that comes with the upgrades, though.
Here’s a rundown of some of the... |
| Jun 7, 2013 | South Jersey middle schooler wins national Doodle Google contest [LINKS] | College grads want to get out of Boston, Fed study finds [Boston Business Journal] Brain drain, it seems, is not just a Philly problem. “Senior economist Alicia Sasser Modestino, who is with the New England Public Policy Center, authored th... |
| May 13, 2013 | Possible City wants to match uses with Philly’s 40k vacant lots | It can seem that for every new park, bar or apartment complex in Philadelphia, there’s a barbed wire-shrouded, plastic bag-laced empty lot brimming with potential.
Possible City, the Philadelphia area’s only semi-finalist in the Knight News... |
| May 8, 2013 | 2013 Philly Tech Week presented by AT&T Media Roundup | More than a week removed from the third annual Philly Tech Week presented by AT&T, we take a look at some of the coverage throughout the week (10 days if you want to get specific).
If we missed any, please let us know. Our kickoff event... |
| Apr 15, 2013 | With 10,000 jobs, will the Navy Yard stand on its own as an innovation hub? | One of the most historic employment engines of Philadelphia is back in a new way, with more people working in the Navy Yard than ever before. Part of that success is tied to a region-wide buoyant technology business community, but at least ... |
| Mar 18, 2013 | Ignite Philly 11: women and open data take center stage | Women and open data were the stars at the last week’s Ignite Philly 11, which packed Johnny Brenda‘s to over-capacity, according to the event’s organizers, as the local version of the global lightning talk event has done since 2008. (Find f... |
| Mar 12, 2013 | How $298M/year in tax delinquencies affect your property value [MAP] | Tax delinquents cheat the city and the School District out of $298 million a year, according to a recent Philadelphia Inquirer/PlanPhilly report.
Who else loses? Homeowners.
Property tax delinquencies lower the market value of a single-fami... |
| Jan 16, 2013 | Save the Roundhouse: Penn grad students’ launch social media campaign to save police HQ | From the Save the Roundhouse Facebook group, captioned: “Design by Erica Maust / Image courtesy of the Earle D. Oakes Collection, The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania”
Facebook: it’s one way to mount a historic preservatio... |
| Jan 3, 2013 | PA spent $4.84B on tax incentives annually since 2007, incl. $18M for Comcast: but some question impact | Successfully attracting and retaining business for the longterm with tax breaks has an inconsistent track record at best and, according to a report last month, could be nearly worthless at worst.
This, of course, flies in the face of what m... |
| Nov 30, 2012 | Alex Gilliam, social entrepreneur and founder of Public Workshop, on making Philly ‘the national model of how we engage youth in the design of their city’ [Q&A] | Alex Gilliam, founder of Public Workshop. Photo by Mark Stehle.
Alex Gilliam is going back to basics.
With his organization Public Workshop, the social entrepreneur aims to create opportunities for the city’s youth to get involved with the ... |
| Aug 24, 2012 | City Planning Commission launches new website, includes new features to city’s new map portal | Just in time for the launch of the city’s new zoning code, the City Planning Commission debuted a new website, PlanPhilly’s Eyes on the Street reports.
New website? New blog? New zoning code? The Planning Commission has had a healthy dose o... |
| Aug 17, 2012 | Planeto: City Planning Commission launches blog that makes zoning actually feel exciting | The city’s Planning Commission, a mayorally appointed advisory board on all things zoning and planning, just got into the blogging game, PlanPhilly’s Eyes on the Street reports.
And turns out, the team over there is pretty good at it. By th... |
| Aug 16, 2012 | Vacant housing data set not accurate says Baltimore Slumlord Watch blogger | Technically Baltimore reported last week on Elliott Plack’s map of vacant housing in Baltimore city, assembled with the help of Open Baltimore data. According to that data, there are 15,928 vacant buildings in the city.
But the Baltimore Sl... |
| Jun 19, 2012 | City Licenses and Inspections department to launch web app this summer, another dubbed ‘License to Inspect’ to follow | For those of you keeping track of city-sanctioned, good government web apps, you may have noticed a prominent one that still hasn’t landed.
Last fall, a public-private partnership was set to launch ‘License to Inspect,’ a robust search tool... |
| May 31, 2012 | How to learn more about the City’s new “Front Door” vacant property policy and tools | Last week, the City made a limited collection of its vacant property inventory available online as a step forward in the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority’s “Front Door” plan to streamline vacant property policy. PRA promises a simpler p... |
| May 11, 2012 | UPenn, Academy of Natural Sciences win $2M in grants from the National Science Foundation [LINKS] | Two Phila. institutions, $2M in science grants [Philadelphia Business Journal] “The University of Pennsylvania and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will each get grants from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Rep. Cha... |
| 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.... |
| Mar 30, 2012 | Philly has 9th most social media savvy City Hall [Links] | The 10 most social media savvy City Halls in America [PR Daily] Philadelphia ranks 9th, tied with Long Beach, CA. “A new study from the University of Illinois at Chicago ranked the 75 largest cities in America by their government’s social m... |
| Mar 23, 2012 | Philadelphia one of only two major U.S. cities with chief innovation officer [LINKS] | The Dawn of the Municipal Chief Innovation Officer [Atlantic Cities] “There are, by our count, just two major cities in the U.S. that currently have someone sitting in this role, and they’ve both settled in within the past six months. Adel ... |
| Mar 2, 2012 | Phila. police now have 24-hour real-time surveillance center [LINKS] | Grocery shopping at SEPTA stations? [Eyes on the Street: Plan Philly] — “Peapod, an online shopping service linked up with Giant, is now offering commuters the opportunity to browse virtual supermarket store shelves on a SEPTA station billb... |
| Feb 3, 2012 | PA Tech Awards deadline extended to tonight at midnight; Vote [Links] | Organizers tell us that the deadline for nominations for the PA Tech Awards, which we covered last month, has been extended to midnight tonight. Vote Philly!
Spot the most defibrillators in Philly, win $10K! [SciStarter — An interview with ... |
| Feb 3, 2012 | Saskia Thompson: “I’m not a data geek, I’m a city geek” says City of Philadelphia property data chief [Q&A] | It’s not about the data. It’s about the city.
Saskia Thompson
So says Saskia Thompson, who later this month will celebrate one year in her role as the executive director of the newly created City of Philadelphia Office of Property Data.
Her... |
| 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,” ... |
| Dec 9, 2011 | Drexel, Penn, Swarthmore college presidents among nation’s best paid [LINKS] | Phila. Sustainability Workshop tries to reinvent the high school [Inquirer]
Entrepreneurs Flock to last month’s Rutgers Entrepreneurship Conference [Philly Tech News]
Internet Access and the New Digital Divide [New York Times]
How the Inter... |
| Dec 2, 2011 | AJ Daulerio named Gawker editor [LINKS] | What does Philadelphia spend? [PhillyDeals: Inquirer]
A to-do list for city commissioners [Philly Clout: Daily News]
Rob Stuart, 49, Phila. activist [Inquirer] — We sadly missed this, but the Center City activist, famed for lobbying for cre... |
| 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... |
| Oct 14, 2011 | Devnuts hacker wants entrepreneurship to bring jobs back: Links | Steve Jobs. Our economy. My suggestion. [John Fazio blog] — The co-founder of Northern Liberties hackerspace Devnuts writes about wanting to create smaller businesses to localize wealth.
Who Are The Philadelphia Region’s Most Committed Smal... |
| Sep 29, 2011 | Eyes on the Street: new PlanPhilly blog on design, development and the built environment of Philadelphia launches | PlanPhilly, the built environment news site, has launched Eyes on the Street, a blog to serve as an extension of its coverage and aimed at offering shorter and more accessible coverage for casual readers.
Visit the blog at EyesOnTheStreet.c... |
| Sep 19, 2011 | City of Philadelphia IT consolidation: a status report as new CIO Adel Ebeid settles in | Rich Negrin has dreamt of this day.
At least that’s what the city’s Managing Director told 250 city IT staff last month before introducing Adel Ebeid as the city’s first ever Chief Innovation Officer and their new boss.
The Softer Side of A... |
| Sep 16, 2011 | What is a Startup Leader?: Links | $1M each for 2 Phila.-area economic development groups [PhillyInc: Inquirer] — BFTP and PIDC
How Philadelphia is failing to proceed on taxes owed [PlanPhilly]
What is a Startup Leader? [Thinking with Brian] — Perspective from Brian Glick ah... |
| Sep 12, 2011 | License to Inspect: two years later, City of Philadelphia L&I API will drive PlanPhilly transparency app | If the deadlines of today are worth more than the deadlines of the past, the City of Philadelphia is due to release before the end of the year the first, most comprehensive agency data API framework in its history. It will power an online t... |
| Aug 12, 2011 | Nutter announces ‘flash mob’ response with curfew, gets Chamber support: Links | Mayor Nutter announces “flash mob” response, changes weekend curfew to 9pm in targeted enforcement areas [City of Philadelphia]
Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce supports Mayor’s initiative to stop mob violence [Chamber of Commerce] ... |
| Aug 12, 2011 | Nutter announces ‘flash mob’ response with curfew, gets Chamber support: Links | Mayor Nutter announces “flash mob” response, changes weekend curfew to 9pm in targeted enforcement areas [City of Philadelphia]
Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce supports Mayor’s initiative to stop mob violence [Chamber of Commerce] ... |
| Jun 13, 2011 | Naked Philly outed as OCF Realty, to launch real estate tool | According to folks at OCF Realty, real estate technology hasn’t changed much in recent years: clients give agents a set of criteria and the real estate agents use a program (typically Trend) to return a set of listings.
Founded in 2008, the... |
| May 13, 2011 | Penn’s new billionaires, @FakeAPStylebook from South Philly and more Links | DEFINITE READS
Fake out: Twitter group writes the book on its grammar spoof [Inquirer] — South Philly resident RJ White is a contributor to the @FakeAPStylebook that is now publishing a book
Study asks well-to-do Philadelphians how they’re ... |
| May 4, 2011 | First of dozens of city computer centers opens in Center City | This article is part of Broadband2035, a series in partnership with PlanPhilly funded by an award from J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism to explore broadband issues to impact Philadelphia’s developing comprehensive plan.
Last ... |
| Apr 22, 2011 | Two Penn alumni are U.S. Presidential hopefuls: Links | Two Penn alumni to choose from for President? [Philly Tech News] — Notes Wharton grad Donald Trump and Penn alumnus Jon Huntsman are both said to be U.S. President hopefuls
Now Pitching for Philadelphia… The Philliebot! [PC Mag] — Get more ... |
| Mar 11, 2011 | Philly doctors work to allow young cancer survivors be parents when they’re older: Links | DEFINITE READS
Science will bust out all over in April [Inquirer] — It’s a very unfortunate headline, but a good profile of Science Festival from the Franklin Institute happening in April, some events from which are cross listed with Philly... |
| Mar 2, 2011 | Philadelphia 2035: city-wide comprehensive plan website launches | City planners released yesterday, as PlanPhilly reported, the draft of Philadelphia’s first city-wide comprehensive plan since 1960.
In an email from Planning Commission Alan Urek:
[Yesterday], the new Philadelphia2035: The Comprehensive Pl... |
| Feb 25, 2011 | Jim Kenney, City Councilman, on Philly 311 today, tomorrow and what is holding it back | Councilman Jim Kenney wants another memo sent out.
Just about from the start, for almost two and a half years, Kenney says he’s been requesting a monitor that would let him listen into randomized Philly 311 calls.
“I don’t want to get someo... |
| 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... |
| Dec 25, 2010 | Fifth more college graduates will stay today than in 2004: Links | Shout Out: New Campus Philly Study Reveals That More Students Are Staying In The Region After Graduation [uwishunu] — “From an April-May survey of 4,600 students, 48
% 
of 
nonâ€native
 Philadelphian college students
 reported â€... |
| Oct 29, 2010 | Links: Four new female heads of regional Fortune 500 firms and more | Venmo Wants Its Users to Trust Each Other [New York Times] — The Rittenhouse-based mobile payment service gets the treatment from the Bits blog.
How a new transportation bill could help solve Philadelphia’s transit woes [PlanPhilly] — Mr. N... |
| Oct 22, 2010 | Links: Naval Yard is having a great year, saving NFL players and more | DEFINITE READS
PhillyInc: Ongoing sea change at the Navy Yard [Inquirer] — The Naval Yard is rockin’, so can we get the Broad Street Line extended there?
U.S. Drilling Companies Get Moment in Spotlight [Wall Street Journal] — “Two PA drilli... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | The complete Switch livestream now available | If you didn’t get the chance to make it to Switch, we have posted the complete event video on SwitchPhilly.com or you can watch it after the jump.
The live stream was brought to you by First Round Capital.
http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/... |
| Sep 28, 2010 | 10 coolest (mostly interactive) online maps of Philadelphia | We love maps.
For hundreds of years, they have helped us better understand our world. That understanding has grown wildly with time and technology, but, still, maps help.
In a place as inwardly focused, we have plenty of maps in Philadelphi... |
| Jul 16, 2010 | Links: Pittsburgh seeks middle tech, 8bit sequencing magic on video and more | DEFINITE READS
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports on that city vying for ‘middle-market’ technology firms, while some chase investment on the west coast and others fail. H/T Philly Tech News
The Inquirer reports on the oenophile vending ma... |
| Jun 14, 2010 | Science Center takes on Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority this week | The University City Science Center is trying to fend off efforts from the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to take control of undeveloped property on Market Street between 38th and 39th Street.
The Science Center is a non-profit that is... |
| May 5, 2010 | Shop Talk: The Planning Collective wants to make Philly beautiful | Updated: clarified city’s role
In the city’s never-ending battle between bicyclists, pedestrians and automobiles, The Planning Collective wants to offer a reason for truce.
As Philebrity posted yesterday, The Planning Collective isn’t some ... |
| Apr 6, 2010 | Brownstoner, Brooklyn real estate blog, launches in Philly | Something about “rowhouser” didn’t sound right to Jonathan Butler.
So today, the founder of popular Brooklyn real estate, renovation and restaurant blog Brownstoner, launches a Philadelphia edition under the same brand. That expansion, Butl... |
| Mar 26, 2010 | Links: Allan Frank gives budget hearing, Philebrity’s Joey Sweeney on flash mobs and More | DEFINITE READS
The Daily News reports on city Chief Technology Officer Allan Frank‘s Tuesday budget hearing before City Council and his push to move the municipal government forward in areas like paperless time sheets.
PlanPhilly has a piec... |
| Jul 24, 2009 | Friday Tech Links: Domelights has been taken down for now, reshaping Philly and More | In which we link out to the tech news from Philly and elsewhere (when it matters) that slips through the cracks and make it way fun. See others here.
It was often a place for trivial discussions of various, loosely-tethered topics from the ... |
| Jul 10, 2009 | Friday Tech Links: Mount Airy teen hacker in WSJ, Digital Philadelphia summit video and More | In which we link out to the tech news from Philly and elsewhere (when it matters) that slips through the cracks and make it way fun. See others here.
Ari Weinstein is the youngest Mount Airy-based hacker we’ve featured on Technically Philly... |