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Hack for Change: 10 projects from Baltimore’s National Day of Civic Hacking...
Make meaningful technical additions to a crowded world of such solutions. That was the task of about 60 civic hackers gathered at AOL/Ad.com in Tide Point for the Hack for Change hackathon. The event...
View ArticleBaltimore-based technology company acquisitions you should know
Popular perception would have us believe that Baltimore, fair city of Natty Boh drinkers and Ravens fans, is known only for its ability to serve as a mean backdrop for a former HBO series and a current...
View ArticleWith data, Baltimore city should fix problems before they even occur: Heather...
Unearthing city government data buried on tired mainframe computers could prove beneficial in two big ways: It would give Baltimore’s residents a better window into how City Hall works, while also...
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Baltimore Foundery: downtown makerspace officially opens doors to public...
While the Baltimore Foundery has been holding closed classes for members of its Meetup group since April, the city’s newest makerspace on South Central Avenue, as of July 1, is officially open. As its...
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Councilman Brandon Scott: Baltimore open data has ‘a long way to go’ [Q&A]
Brandon Scott, the 29-year-old, first-term City Council member whose 2nd district includes parts of Canton and Parkside, wants the city to “stop fighting positive change.” “Here in Baltimore, we’re...
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Computers for Guns: more than 50 guns traded in for laptops at West Baltimore...
An AP-15 rifle was the second gun collected by a SWAT officer of the Baltimore Police Department during Saturday’s Computers for Guns event in West Baltimore. By 3:45 p.m., nearly an hour into the...
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Is Baltimore benefiting from Maryland’s cybersecurity industry?
“We are at war in cyberspace,” said Barbara Mikulski, addressing a crowd gathered in downtown Baltimore last October. The war cry from the compact Mikulski, all four feet, 11 inches of her, might serve...
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Nick Mosby: crime data ‘foundation’ for Enough is Enough peace rallies [Q&A]
This Friday night will be the 19th Friday in a row that Nick Mosby has walked the streets of West Baltimore. The 34-year-old freshman city councilman for the 7th District, Mosby started what he calls...
View ArticleSourcefire ‘changed how people talk about cybersecurity’: founder Martin...
Martin Roesch founded Sourcefire in the living room of his Carroll County home in 1998. Last month, the Columbia-based cybersecurity firm for which he now serves as CTO announced it was being acquired...
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Designer of Gado digitization robot to open Silicon Valley office [VIDEO]
Gado, the robot that has scanned more than 100,000 old photographs inside the archives of the Afro-American newspaper, is heading west. The San Francisco Bay Area, to be precise, where Gado designer...
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Broadband consultant a ‘smart start’ as city explores expanding fiber network...
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...
View Article‘Going all-in on startups seems narrow’: Figure 53′s Chris Ashworth
Chris Ashworth is the founder of software company Figure 53 — and one of several people behind Made with ♥ in Baltimore — but he is not a startup owner. Mind you, he doesn’t dislike startups, or even...
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Searching for Baltimore’s hub of innovation
There’s construction happening at 873 W. Baltimore St., the large-scale kind where the hums of big motors mix with commands shouted by workers wearing reflective traffic vests with dust-caked beards...
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Baltimore city’s 3 big goals for $2M buildout of city’s 54-mile fiber ring
A $2 million overbuild to Baltimore city’s 54-mile-long fiber ring will not only strengthen the city’s public safety radio system, but also be the first major step in possibly extending broadband...
View ArticleMD focuses on startups ‘because of phenomenal growth’: Dominick Murray
Dominick Murray, the secretary for the state’s Department of Business and Economic Development, started working for Martin O’Malley in 2002 and has been working for the former mayor of Baltimore ever...
View ArticleParking Panda, Groove Commerce among list of 15 best startups to work for
Parking Panda and Groove Commerce, based in Federal Hill and near Little Italy respectively, were named to a list of the 15 best startups to work for in the U.S. View the full list. The list was...
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‘Political leadership’ is Baltimore’s biggest obstacle [Warnock survey]
Across demographic and age groups, residents of Baltimore cite the city’s political leadership as the single biggest obstacle to Baltimore becoming a world-class city. It’s one of many findings to come...
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10 beautiful Baltimore photos from this drone-flying married couple [PHOTOS]
In the beginning, the drones constructed by Terry and Belinda Kilby fired spray-and-pray-style from the skies above Baltimore. Belinda navigates and photographs with the help of a monitor on the...
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Big Change in Baltimore ‘has to start from the grassroots up’ [EVENT]
Arlando Jones was the son of a father he never knew and a mother whose year of death he’s unsure of. His Aunt Kim acted as a surrogate parent, though her heroin addiction proved her a poor substitute....
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Now you can buy beer with Bitcoins at Fells Point bar Bad Decisions
The virtual currency Bitcoin has already been used to buy pizza, a Tesla Model S and narcotics via the Silk Road online drug market. Add beer to the list. At Bad Decisions bar in Fells Point, patrons...
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