Canton Startup Seeks Funding for New Social Media Venture [BmoreMedia]: “Baltimore tech startup SameGrain Inc.  plans to launch its first round of financing, for $500,000, this year.” Rec center reopens as Digital Harbor Tech Center [Baltimore Sun]: “Focused on after-school programming and workforce training for city public school students, The Digital Harbor Tech Center, was built, and its [...]

A busy week in Baltimore’s tech scene this week. The Baltimore Mobile and Baltimore Social Media groups meet Tuesday night at AOL/Advertising.com and Mother’s, respectively. On Wednesday morning is another installment of D.C. TechBreakfast. Then, Thursday night, spend some time at the grand opening of the Digital Harbor Tech Center in Federal Hill before walking over to Betamore  for the return [...]

After months of planning, preparation and construction, the Digital Harbor Tech Center is opening in Federal Hill on Jan. 17. (You can RSVP for the grand opening here.) A project of the Digital Harbor Foundation, the tech center occupies the same space where the South Baltimore Rec Center was located, at the corner of Cross and [...]

TEDxBaltimore comes to Morgan State University on Jan. 25, and already several speakers have been announced, including Western High School student and robotics competitor Keimmie Booth and Digital All Systems founder Lance Lucas. What co-organizer Sarge Salman is looking for now are students to join the “media brigade,” which will be responsible for promoting TEDx [...]