The Rise of the New Baltimoreans [Next American City]: “Baltimore has seen its population shrink by 33 percent since its peak in the 1950s. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has a plan to halt the contraction in part by boosting the city’s immigrant population.”
Oculis Labs reaches 10,000 user milestone [Baltimore Sun]: “[T]he company surpassed 10,000 users of its related PrivateEye software. Their software gets loaded onto laptops and helps prevent ‘over the shoulder’ eavesdropping.”

The Impending Series A Fiscal Cliff and You! [Wall Street Journal]: “The emergence in the last half dozen years of microVC (or seed) funds, as well as an uptick in web-focused angel investors, have yielded a sharp rise in the number of seed-funded companies over that period. … Many will not have performed well enough to garner that next round of venture funding, called a “Series A” round.”
The Onion’s TED Talk Spoof [The Atlantic]: “Featuring a spiky-haired, self-proclaimed ‘visionary,’ it’s as much an indictment of a certain kind of entrepreneur as a skewering of the ubiquitous conference brand.”
Morgan State University begins construction of $72 million-dollar business school [Baltimore Sun]: “The 140,000-square-foot Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management will include a lecture hall and classrooms, as well as hotel rooms and a large kitchen for hospitality classes.”
Why People Really Love Technology [The Atlantic]: An interview with Intel researcher Genevieve Bell.