Why I Won’t Be Using BetaPunch for User Testing [Danielle Morrill's blog]: “So, I won’t be using BetaPunch. They’re rude, don’t respect my privacy, and clearly don’t want me to be their customer anyway.”

The InvestMaryland Challenge, the state’s inaugural business plan competition doling out three, $100,000 prizes of investment funding, drew 259 entries of in-state and national businesses, according to MDBizNews.

Politico says there’s “no denying that Maryland’s lawmakers have expended considerable political capital to transform their state into a home base primed and ready for any cyberwar.” For years, a delegation of congressional representatives from Maryland, led by Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski, reports Politico, “has [long] steered hundreds of millions of dollars in federal cyberaid”: [...]

Three more companies are now the recipients of money from the state InvestMaryland fund, an $84 million pot earmarked specifically for “early-, mid- and late-stage growth companies.” Rockville-based Maxtena, Bambeco, in the Fairfield area south of the Inner Harbor, and PathSensors, in the University of Maryland BioPark, received a total of $1.1 million. Maxtena ($560,000) [...]