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Splice for iPad: download the latest from Old City game developer Cipher Prime

Lose the mouse and get up close and personal with the iPad version of Splice from Old City game developer Cipher Prime. Following Splice’s success, Cipher Prime launched Splice: Tree of Life for iPad...

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Made in America Festival: use this mobile app to navigate through the...

This weekend’s Budweiser Made in America Festival is bound to be a bit crazy, with an additional estimated 50,000 people crowding the Parkway daily. So here’s an insider’s guide, courtesy of the...

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Wharton Entrepreneurship: check out Wharton’s new blog for entrepreneurs

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business has got a fresh new look for its entrepreneurship offerings and a new blog to boot. What was once Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs is now...

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SimsUShare: visualize your building on fire with this iPad app to be better...

What if you could visualize a fire before it happened? Firefighters could potentially develop more accurate response strategies, building managers could more effectively test their emergency exit...

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‘Still Got a Crush on Obama’: watch the latest viral video from Philly.com’s...

Viral video songwriter Leah Kauffman has taken up the Obama reelection effort. Kauffman, an executive producer at Philly.com and founder of local music site Phrequency.com, is back at it with a second...

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Pa. online sales tax: Corbett expects to collect $48 million from new tax but...

Governor Tom Corbett expects to collect $43 million from a new online sales tax. Photo credit: Christine Baker, The Patriot-News. Governor Tom Corbett hopes to collect tens of millions of dollars...

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Community Investment Index: use this web app to visualize community...

A regional planning organization launched a web app to visualize where government and nonprofit dollars are going in Philly and its suburbs, Next American City reports. Use the web app here. Here’s...

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Shareabouts: OpenPlans offers free installation of crowdsourced mapping tool...

Calling all Philly orgs: how could a crowdsourced map help you? Think fast and you might get it. OpenPlans, the New York City-based open data nonprofit, is giving away free installations of...

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Lean Startup Machine: co-organizer leads effort to bring conference to...

Attendees at Wednesday night’s Lean Startup Machine preview event at City Tap House in University City. When it comes to cultivating a city’s startup culture, some think that you’ve got to let...

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The Kickstarter Handbook: local author Don Steinberg on how to be a...

If you’re looking to raise a boatload of money on Kickstarter, Don Steinberg‘s got some tips for you. In his latest work, published by Old City’s Quirk Books, Steinberg spoke with dozens of people...

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Dorm Room Fund: $500k pilot investment for 25 Philly college startups from...

Early-stage First Round Capital has announced this morning the launch of its Dorm Room Fund, a $500,000 pilot investment fund run by and for college student entrepreneurs that will make small...

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tapCLIQ: mobile advertising platform in Project Liberty Digital Incubator...

An example of tapCLIQ’s product via its website. tweeted:. The company also applied for the Knight News Challenge in the Mobile category, asking for $1.2 – $2 million to fund its efforts. According to...

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Arcweb: new consulting firm on IT product from PSL, Vuzit cofounder Chris Cera

It’s a services shop to help product firms. Chris Cera, Vuzit co-founder and founding member of Philly Startup Leaders, has been quietly working on a new venture out of Indy Hall for a little over a...

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PleaseFixPhilly.com: NakedPhilly, OCF Realty’s Ori Feibush creates blog in...

Developer and blogger Ori Feibush created a new blog in response to the city’s rumored legal action against him for cleaning a vacant lot he did not own. Developer and blogger Ori Feibush has figured...

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DonorsChoose: donate to these Philadelphia School District projects

Teachers in the budget-troubled Philadelphia School District often have to buy supplies for their students, but with DonorsChoose, they can ask for some help. The Philadelphia Daily News highlighted...

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Alteva: telephony provider opens new headquarters on Independence Mall

Deputy Mayor Alan Greenberger (left) with David Cuthbert, President and Chief Operations Officer of WVT Communications Group, which owns Alteva, at the grand opening of Alteva’s new national...

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Is SEPTA F*cked? transit-delays tracking website from Ardmore developer...

The task of tracking all regional transit lines and judging just how f*cked is SEPTA at a given moment, system wide, by determining how many trains are delayed, is a new a web application from...

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Open Office Hours: meet the Philly startup scene and hold your own office hours

Always wanted to hang out with a certain Philly entrepreneur but didn’t really know how to swing it? Check out the new Philly startups group on Open Office Hours, a site that uses informal meetings to...

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ParkMobile: use this mobile app to pay for parking in 11 lots around the city

Here’s to making city parking a bit more painless. Philly’s Parkway Corporation recently started using ParkMobile, a mobile payment app that alerts you when your meter has almost run out, Newsworks...

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ITWorks: get an intern, impact at-risk young technologist with NPower PA program

Help a student get real-life job experience with NPower PA‘s ITWorks intern program. ITWorks is a 16-week technology training program for disadvantaged young adults. Read more about the program and...

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