Big money came into companies like MICROS Systems and OrderUp. The controversial parking app Haystack came and went, angering regulators elsewhere along the way.
Those are some of the most talked-about stories in Baltimore in 2014, and Technical.ly’s reporters in Baltimore, Washington, Delaware, Philadelphia and Brooklyn, and Technical.ly cofounder Christopher Wink, break it down in this month’s Technical.ly Podcast.
Also, hear from Betamore education director Michele Farquharson on what’s going on at the Federal Hill incubator and what she thought was the biggest story in Baltimore’s tech scene.
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And, while we’re looking back, here are the top five stories you were sharing from Technical.ly Baltimore this year:
- This Ad.com civic hacker is renovating a Baltimore vacant [PHOTOS]: Shea Frederick, then of Advertising.com (now with Under Armour) built BaltimoreVacants.org to track the city’s vacant homes. He then put his money where his mouth was and rehabbed one of his own.
- AOL/Ad.com is moving to Natty Boh Tower: Speaking of the AOL property, officials there announced plans this year to move from their longtime home at Under Armour’s Tide Point complex across the harbor to Brewer’s Hill.
- A tale of two tech scenes: Baltimore and Charleston, SC: In a guest post, Sarah Jones of Refresh Baltimore writes about what Charm City has in common with the tech scene Fast Company dubbed “Silicon Harbor.”
- These Hopkins students are vying for $10M prize in wearable health tech: The students took a break from classes to perfect a wearable, neck pillow-like device to measure health data from home. Their startup, Aegle, was in the inaugural class of DreamIt Health Baltimore companies.
- Johns Hopkins to create ‘an incubator for technology in the arts’: Thomas Dolby, the musician best known for blinding us with science, was tasked by Hopkins this year with creating what a dean at the school called a “Silicon Valley for the arts” at the university’s Homewood campus.
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