An epic day for Boston’s tech community, from TechJam to BostInno in the Seaport
Thursday will go down as one of the best examples of all that is right in the Boston tech and innovation community and made clear that the momentum that everyone in the "Innovation Economy" has been...
View ArticleWith Open Budget, Mayor Walsh opens up more City of Boston data, makes it...
The City of Boston and Mayor Martin Walsh are once again trying to leverage technology and the trend of open data by making the city's yearly budget more easily digestible and searchable with the...
View ArticleMayor Walsh: not all innovation is good for Boston
When Mayor Martin J. Walsh spoke recently about the promise of the tech sector for shaping the future of Boston, he used the word “innovation” 16 times during the 20-minute talk (according to my notes,...
View ArticleMayor Walsh issues statement about parking apps the day of Haystack’s Boston...
Haystack, an app that allows users to hand off parking spaces that they occupy for a $3 fee, planned its launch today in Boston despite the fact that the City of Boston is none too pleased that the...
View ArticleUnder heat from the City of Boston, Haystack throws a grand ol’ startup party
The City of Boston's stated stance against pay-to-park mobile apps didn't stop Haystack, and some notable local politicians, from celebrating the "launch" of the app in Boston (which doesn't actually...
View ArticleIs this week’s parking app pilot decision a test of Mayor Walsh’s bullish...
Last week, Mayor Martin J. Walsh came out and expressed his opposition to parking app Haystack's launch in Boston. In his statement, the mayor said, "The Boston Transportation Department (“BTD”)...
View ArticleBoston City Council submits ordinance to put an end to parking apps, like...
Earlier today, in a Boston City Council meeting that also tackled possible regulations for Uber, an ordinance was submitted by Boston City Councilor Frank Baker prohibiting, without permission from the...
View ArticleGovernor Patrick, Mayor Walsh officially make Wednesday ‘Tech Gives Back Day’
City of Boston Mayor Martin Walsh has issued a proclamation making Wednesday "Tech Gives Back Day" in the city. Last week, Governor Deval Patrick, also proclaimed that September 10, will be Tech Gives...
View ArticleTicketZen chosen by City of Boston to be official mobile parking ticket...
The City of Boston has selected TicketZen, a mobile app created at Terrible Labs in Boston, to help process the payment of parking tickets on mobile devices running Android and Apple's iOS operating...
View ArticleSurprise! Google’s Eric Schmidt will keynote next week’s MassChallenge Awards
This morning, MassChallenge announced that it has added another "surprise" keynote speaker to the already impressive list of speakers for next week's MassChallenge awards. Read More
View ArticleBoston’s first ever chief digital officer is a millennial, of course
Lauren Lockwood, Boston's first ever chief digital officer, is a Vassar and Harvard Business School graduate who spent startup time at Hourly Nerd and did a consulting stint at Morgan Stanley. Those...
View ArticleMayor Walsh speaks with startups about how to brand Boston
Mayor Martin Walsh welcomed members of Boston's startup community to City Hall Thursday afternoon for a meet-and-greet in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week. The group included CEOs, venture...
View Article#TellBeta: Help us give thanks for Boston’s startup scene
Last week, when Mayor Martin Walsh spoke with leaders within Boston's startup community about his goals for 2015, a clear theme emerged: He needs to do more to promote Boston as a place where...
View ArticleBoston’s first ‘Housing Innovation Lab’ gets $1.35 million to rethink...
The City of Boston will receive $1.35 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies to fund the development of a Housing Innovation Lab, and take an affordable housing project from proposal to reality, the...
View ArticleAfter trial period, City of Boston extends TicketZen partnership
After testing parking ticket payment app TicketZen for a three month pilot period, the City of Boston has decided to extend its contract with the Terrible Labs-founded mobile app for another year. Read...
View ArticleI just used the City of Boston’s new parking app, ParkBoston
In his first State of the City address last night, Mayor Martin Walsh announced that the City of Boston is launching a new parking program that allows users to pay for metered parking spaces through a...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs like the sound of Boston ‘startup czar’
Boston’s tech types aren’t exactly sure what a “startup czar” does. But they’re pretty sure they like the idea. Local entrepreneurs welcomed the announcement by Mayor Martin J. Walsh in his State of...
View ArticleThe City of Boston’s ‘SnowCOP’ is the brains behind the plows
In his pre-storm press conference yesterday, Mayor Martin J. Walsh promised that technology would play a role in keeping Boston's streets clean and safe. Today, the city has provided a video glimpse of...
View ArticleCity of Boston’s ‘Snow Stats’ tracker displays snow, plows in your neighborhood
For all those stranded at home because of the weather, the City of Boston has given you a way to kill time. A brand new website called SnowStats is a virtual scoreboard hoisted by the city to track the...
View ArticleBoston partners with Google’s Waze app to improve traffic flow in the city
Mayor Martin Walsh made yet another move that shows just how far the city of Boston is willing to go in its quest to improve its citizens' lives by using new technologies and data collected by Internet...
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