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| May 19, 2014 | How Chattanooga reminds Code for America fellow Giselle Sperber of BK | Giselle Sperber, a Code for America fellow now working in Chattanooga, Tennessee, wrote us a letter home to the borough.
Dear Brooklyn,
It’s been four months since I left and while I miss you a lot I’ve been up to some cool stuff.
I joined ... |
| Apr 29, 2014 | Who else will charge Netflix for speedier service? | Netflix (NFLX), the high-flying streaming video and content producer, agreed on Monday to pay Verizon (VZ) fees to gain faster access to the New York company's Internet network.
The deal, whose terms weren't disclosed, is the second of its ... |
| Apr 14, 2014 | How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) | The Santa Clara Valley was some of the most valuable agricultural land in the entire world, but it was paved over to create today’s Silicon Valley. This was simply the result of bad planning and layers of leadership failure — nobody thinks ... |
| Apr 10, 2014 | Crystal Tech Fund Announces Its First 6 Investments and Opens DC Office | Today, the headquarters of Paul Singh’s Crystal Tech Fund opened in Crystal City, a neighborhood five minutes from DC. They also announced their first six portfolio companies, who will be working out of the space:
Speek: A conference callin... |
| Apr 7, 2014 | Why It’s So Hard to Bring Gigabit Internet to the US | Huge spools of fiber optic cables. Image: woodleywonderworks/Flickr
The information economy is only as strong as the infrastructure it's built on, and yet the US is falling perilously behind the rest of the world when it comes to access to ... |
| Mar 31, 2014 | Study: Venture capital flows in dense urban communities that are liberal, gay and educated | What’s makes for an innovative startup hub? Researchers have been diving into that topic for years, analyzing everything from the existence of large research institutions to the importance of risk capital.
Now, researcher Richard Florida, c... |
| Mar 15, 2014 | Hey! You! Get Off Of Our Bandwagon | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Feb 28, 2014 | Google Sets Example By Trying To Offset Perils Of SF Gentrification | While San Francisco’s gentrification issues aren’t solely caused by the tech boom, the tech industry should aim to help the communities impacted by the influx of money and people it has brought to the city. Yesterday’s donation by Google is... |
| Feb 15, 2014 | CrunchWeek: Comcast’s $45B Time Warner Cable Bid, Bye-Bye Flappy Birds, Snapchat’s Smoothie Hack | We’re at the end of a week where snow was on the ground in 49 out of the 50 states in the U.S. What better way to escape the winter blues than by virtually pulling up your chair to the TechCrunch writer roundtable for a new episode of Crunc... |
| Feb 7, 2014 | Let’s Just Forget Everything | I always think a little historical perspective is good in a fast-moving industry like tech. So when Facebook released Paper this week, I did what any decent tech journalist would do — I visited the website of the Robert C. Williams Paper Mu... |
| Jan 2, 2014 | Uber’s Denial Of Liability In Girl’s Death Raises Accident Accountability Questions | A six-year old girl named Sophia Liu was tragically killed last night when an SUV driver confirmed to be an Uber-contracted driver struck her in a San Francisco crosswalk. Uber has essentially denied liability, noting in a statement that “t... |
| Nov 22, 2013 | America has a vacant housing problem | As reports of inventory shortages keep appearing, the driver isn't entirely that investors are crowding out retail home purchasers — as Trulia (TRLA) chief economist Jed Kolko notes in an article appearing at The Atlantic, vacancy rates are... |
| Nov 20, 2013 | Apartment List is fixing the painful, time-sucking process of rental search | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Shelter is a basic human need, but it can be infu... |
| Nov 12, 2013 | Even Bill Clinton thinks people should get to keep their insurance plans | Republicans, of course, and some Democrats have criticized this point. Former Democratic party President Clinton had this to say: “I personally believe, even if it takes a change in the law, the president should honor the commitment the fed... |
| Oct 29, 2013 | Here’s how Philly tech fits into ‘the rise of the rest’ | In the 1990s, the technology business boom was largely defined by distance. Once made of academic and military research, Silicon Valley first went mainstream and became known as the incubator for Internet infrastructure for which all other ... |
| Oct 17, 2013 | Could San Francisco Automate BART Workers Threatening To Strike? | For the past week, the entire San Francisco Bay Area has been on the brink of a full-fledged train strike. The unpredictable negotiations have left commuters in limbo: it’s too risky to schedule business meetings, but there is not enough un... |
| Oct 17, 2013 | The nicer Brooklyn gets the more talent wants to work here | Richard Florida wrote an analysis of economist Michael Mandel‘s new report for Mayor Bloomberg, on The Atlantic Cities. In it, there’s a lot of comparison and contrasts between Manhattan and Brooklyn’s tech scenes, noting the fact that Broo... |
| Oct 17, 2013 | Don’t want to eat rat? Online grocer Fields is delivering safer food in China | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
China’s food system is ridden with scandals. Its ... |
| Oct 17, 2013 | Don’t want to eat rat? Online grocer Fields is delivering safer food in China | China’s food system is ridden with scandals. Its got rat meat being sold as lamb, toxins found in rice and milk, and its agricultural resources are rapidly shrinking.
Shanghai-based online grocer Fields has raised $5 million to play a small... |
| Sep 24, 2013 | Jeffrey Stockbridge took the last photo for his haunting Kensington Blues | Jeffrey Stockbridge is done making photos in Kensington for now. He actually stopped this winter. That might surprise you, if you’re a fan of his two-year-old haunting if insightful photoblog Kensington Blues.
After five years, he says he h... |
| Sep 12, 2013 | Beautiful and glaring stop and frisk data visualization from BKLYNR | For all the recent mayoral attention stop and frisk has caught in New York, a visualization as glaring as this was bound to get attention.
From the subscription-based data visualization startup BKLYNR comes this beautiful and shocking graph... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | Broadband consultant a ‘smart start’ as city explores expanding fiber network [VIDEO] | The City of Baltimore’s pursuit of a strategy for broadband fiber continues, specifically beefing up existing broadband infrastructure through an overbuild of the city’s 25-mile fiber ring.
Baltimore city CIO Chris Tonjes. Photo credit: Gre... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | Just 1/3 of 2011 D.C./Baltimore investment happened in the suburbs | Of $1.1 billion in 2011 investment in the Washington D.C. and Baltimore region, 69 percent of it, or $772 million, came within one of those two cities.
That flies in the face of the long-held perception that Northern Virginia and outlying M... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | 78% of NYC regional investment happens in urban core, leading national trend | Among $3.1 billion in 2011 venture capital investment in the New York region, nearly 78 percent, or $2.4 billion happens in the city itself.
It’s the among the largest urban investment percentages in the country, beyond just the newer citie... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | 84% of Philly 2011 VC was suburban: lowest urban rate of 11 big regions | Philadelphia’s 1990s era dot com narrative was a suburban one. While the rest of the country is experiencing an urban tech blossoming, Philadelphia has remained behind the curve, at least as recent as 2011.
Among the country’s 11 largest in... |
| Aug 30, 2013 | Roundup: News from Optimum, Tagboard, BoldIQ, Twitter, IV, and Donuts | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It turns out Seattle’s Optimum Energy gained some significant strategic investors in its latest financing round. Read on for details on that, plus funding for Tagboard and Bol... |
| Aug 20, 2013 | Head and the Hand Press founder Nic Esposito launches writers coworking | The ripples of coworking into industries far and wide have been chronicled sufficiently to date. But add the twist of commercial corridor revitalization, and the story has, in news parlance, fresh legs.
That’s where the next stage begins fo... |
| Aug 19, 2013 | How East Coast tech became an urban phenomenon [Atlantic Cities] | In the 1990s tech boom, it was all about the suburban office park. Now, cities are back.
The Atlantic Cities highlights how cities are the hubs for innovation and growing the diversity of American technology beyond the Valley, led by New Yo... |
| Aug 16, 2013 | East Coast tech startups are a downtown phenomenon [Links] | How East Coast Tech Startups Became a Downtown Phenomenon [Atlantic Cities]: “New York has risen dramatically as a venture capital center; venture capital and startup activity in greater Boston have shifted from the suburbs to urban neighbo... |
| Aug 15, 2013 | East Coast tech startups are an urban phenomenon [Atlantic Cities] | What was a suburban effort in the 1990s is looking more urban with even passing year.
The cult of the tech startup is booming in the cities of East Coast — dominated by Manhattan, with Boston, Brooklyn and D.C. playing part, joined by Phila... |
| Aug 6, 2013 | Paul Smith: EveryBlock cofounder, Fed Hill resident on Public Good Software | Building enterprise software for nonprofits might not have been expected of one of the pioneers of the open government movement, but that’s exactly where Paul Smith finds himself now.
The 36-year-old Smith, a Frederick native and St. Mary’s... |
| Jul 25, 2013 | MD suburbs of D.C. among leading venture capital area codes | From the Atlantic Cities comes a list of the top 25 area codes for venture capital deals in the U.S. Among the top 25:
the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., at number 14, with 60 VC deals
and the Maryland suburbs of D.C., at nu... |
| Jun 21, 2013 | Washington, D.C., 10th-best location for venture capital investment | In 2012, there were 117 venture capital deals made in Washington, D.C., with $484 million going to a variety of tech startups. That’s a benefit reaching into Baltimore’s startup community.
It also makes D.C. the 10th-best location to find v... |
| Jun 19, 2013 | This map shows where venture capital dollars are flowing in the U.S. | Check out this cool map, produced by The Atlantic in partnership with the Martin Prosperity Institute, which shows where venture capital dollars flowed in 2012.
As one would expect, the East and West Coasts have the biggest pockets, led, of... |
| May 29, 2013 | Corporations learn about China before expanding, but not Oakland [EVENT] | From Mesa, Ariz. to Bridgeport, Conn., city government is striving to engage its constituents using new technology, and Philadelphia can be held up as a microcosm of the multi-tiered challenges facing mayors nationwide.
More than 26 U.S. ma... |
| May 12, 2013 | Live map of recent changes to Wikipedia articles is mesmerizing | reader comments 35 with 30 posters participating
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| Apr 6, 2013 | California Court Bans Checking Smartphone Maps While Driving | In California, drivers can now be pulled over for using their GPS while driving. Extending the state’s current ban on texting while driving, an appellate court in California v. Spriggs argued that the “distraction would be present whether t... |
| Mar 13, 2013 | North Baltimore Broadband Initiative seeks more service options from Comcast, Verizon | Several neighborhoods in North Baltimore, organized as the North Baltimore Broadband Initiative, are clamoring for more broadband Internet service options.
The Roland Park Civic League has spearheaded the initiative that started to come tog... |
| Feb 27, 2013 | There Will Be Broadband | Forgotten by the future, some communities are taking the internet into their own hands
Look outside of your window: if you see miles of farmland, chances are you have terrible internet service. That's because major telecommunications compan... |
| Feb 15, 2013 | The Atlantic picks up Philly’s crime visualization apps [LINKS] | Will the Chief Innovation Officer Transform Government? [GovTech] “[Philadelphia CIO Adel] Ebeid fields many phone calls from other municipalities curious about his job title. “I get as many as one or two a week,” he said. “I started callin... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | White Paper, Shmite Paper: We Should be Worrying About Drone-Proof Cities | While the brouhaha over the White Paper rages, Sarah Goodyear writes in The Atlantic Cities about a novel concept from one Asher J. Kohn which might, in the near future, moot the whole discussion:
"Architecture against drones is not ju... |
| Jan 30, 2013 | The Post-Kickstarter Conundrum: Delivering Companies DOA? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Picture this: two guys in a garage coding The Next Big Thing. It’s an iconic and familiar image. Now imagine their ubiquitous computer keyboards being overtaken by a colony of... |
| 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... |
| Jan 2, 2013 | Philly tech scene 2012: 5 biggest stories | It’s been a year full of meetups, demo days and coworking spot grand openings. And we’re looking forward to even more in 2013. Here are our picks for the five biggest stories of the year, in no particular order. Let us know your picks in th... |
| Dec 28, 2012 | Baltimore Tech in 2012: Technically Baltimore’s 15 takeaways from this last year | Relatively speaking, Baltimore’s early-stage technology community has been busy in 2012. Call it hype. Call it cheerleading. Call it noise. But whatever the name, it’s plain that Baltimore city’s tech ecosystem is growing at a clip previous... |
| Dec 21, 2012 | Philly’s crime data release named one of The Atlantic Cities’ ‘Best Open Data Releases of 2012’ [LINKS] | The Best Open Data Releases of 2012 [The Atlantic Cities] As The Atlantic notes, Philly released its crime data right in the nick of time to make this end-of-the-year list. Read more about Philly’s recent crime data release here.
Will robot... |
| Dec 21, 2012 | Local photogs drop Instagram // Best open data release of 2012 // Mindgrub’s Catapult giving site makes Bill Gates’ list [Links] | Baltimore photographers drop Instagram amid concerns that photos could appear in ads [Baltimore Sun]: “The changes go into effect in mid-January, the most contentious point being Instagram’s ability to sell users’ photos without informing o... |
| Nov 20, 2012 | GiveCorps: crowdfunding meets charitable giving at this Charles Village-based startup | At 49, Jamie McDonald describes herself as “not your typical, 25-year-old entrepreneur,” although she feels “about 20-something.”
McDonald is the co-founder of GiveCorps, the Charles Village-based startup that uses the crowdfunding model of... |
| Sep 14, 2012 | ‘Know that your water tastes better because of Christine Knapp’: EEB Hub manager leaves for Water Department [LINKS] | Christine Knapp, Manager of Public and Client Relations for the Energy Efficient Buildings Hub (EEB Hub), leaves for the Water Department: In an email, Knapp wrote that she was leaving EEB Hub to become the Water Department’s Director of St... |
| 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... |
| Jun 12, 2012 | Philadelphia is a “Thinking Region,” says new Knowledge in Cities study | Philadelphia is a “Thinking Region” with “high knowledge about arts, humanities, IT and commerce and low knowledge about manufacturing,” according to a new study called “Knowledge in Cities” (behind a paywall) published in the May issue of ... |
| 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 25, 2012 | Fred Wilson: we invested in DuckDuckGo for the ‘Internet anarchists’ [LINKS] | DuckDuckGo Cooks Google’s Goose: Analyst [CNBC] “Weinberg is founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo, the itty bitty, Valley Forge, Pa.-based search engine that is becoming the business and finance search tool of choice. That, by the way, rewrites en... |
| Apr 2, 2012 | Александр Лебедев подал в суд на ЦБ, Шувалов и олигархи, как повысили тарифы на газ, финансы и религии, европейский пузырь недвижимости | Александр Лебедев, владелец Национального резервного банка:
Проверка – она всем проверка (вниманию в том числе участников проверки ЦБ)
В Национальном резервном банке продолжается самая масштабная проверка ЦБ РФ за всю историю этого могучего... |
| 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 ... |
| Dec 19, 2011 | Silicon Island: What Cornell’s New York City Tech Campus Will Look Like [Images] | New York City refers to its tech scene as “Silicon Alley,” but now it’s getting a giant new Cornell tech campus… on an island, between Manhattan and Queens. I’m going to leave the naming issue for the locals and share some images from the n... |
| Mapa: Brasil se destaca na criação de startups, mas investimento decepciona | As cidades brasileiras ganham destaque mundial quando o assunto é criação de startups, mas desaparecem para o fim da lista quando o assunto é investimento, tanto o vindo de anjo, quanto o vindo dos fundos de venture capital. Ao menos é isso... |
| Brasileiros estão na final de concurso do ‘melhor aplicativo urbano do mundo’ | Os brasileiros da Colab, app social que quer fomentar a cidadania, estão na final do prêmio AppMyCity! que pretende eleger o “melhor aplicativo urbano do mundo”. Inicialmente, não havia brasileiros entre os três finalistas, mas o Colab subs... |
| Even Bill Clinton thinks people should get to keep their insurance plans | In a new interview with OZY, former President Bill Clinton says there are three problems with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, one of which could be fixed by changing the law.
That big problem is that hundreds of thousands of... |