Vince Talbert, right, at Startup Grind Vince Talbert has deep roots in Baltimore. He grew up in Reisterstown, attended Franklin High School in Baltimore County and studied finance and economics at Towson. So when venture capitalists made offers to Talbert and his team at Bill Me Later in a bid to get the online credit […]

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The accelerator, founded by Ross Berkowitz in 2010, is part of a global social entrepreneurship network started in Israel called PresenTense.

Vince Talbert, right, at Tuesday evening’s Startup Grind. Vince Talbert — vice president of merchant marketing at PayPal and co-founder of online payment platform Bill Me Later, which was acquired by eBay in 2008 — is now spending more time among Baltimore techies within this city’s startup scene. He’s investing and popping up at events, like September’s Startup Weekend. […]

Tuesday evening, more than 90 community members and organization representatives convened over pizza and beer at First Round Capital in University City to brainstormed to plan exciting ideas and events for the third annual Philly Tech Week. Attendees were split into small groups and faced with the task of filling in the following call for […]

For six months, software engineer and Baltimore resident Greg Gershman has been working for the White House as part of the inaugural class of 18 Presidential Innovation Fellows. In August, Technically Baltimore reported on the fellowship, which tasked those recruited with coming up with ways to make the federal government more streamlined and easier to […]

It’s the community meeting gone mobile. Mayor Michael Nutter has launched an investigation into the voting problems that were widely reported in Philly during last November’s presidential election, according to a release, and the city is showing its reach by allowing citizens to submit feedback through an online form, text message or phone. Aside from those […]

Mindgrub creative lead Alex Hachey at the Baltimore Mobile Meetup. Mindgrub Technologies, the Catonsville-based innovation agency that started a new gaming division this year, has released its latest game. Escape from Detention is a collaboration with students participating with the Howard County Library’s HiTech, the library’s new STEM digital media lab, who helped with the game’s design […]

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Get online ads to stop following you with startup DuckDuckGo‘s latest project: FixTracking.com, a how-to guide to keeping your Internet browsing private. The Paoli-based search engine, which promises never to track your searches, launched the site in honor of Data Privacy Day (Jan. 28). The DuckDuckGo team has been outspoken about internet privacy infringements, like how […]