Media & Technology

Facebook is changing its policies in order to stop users from setting up private sales of guns, which would also affect the popular photo sharing site Instagram, which Facebook owns.

Wells Fargo and Bank of America are working on integrating Apple Pay in their ATMs

Social networking site, Facebook, announced earlier this week that they are in the process of adding new features to their popular ‘like’ button.

Techinical.ly Philly and Comcast yesterday launched the national “Tomorrow Tour” at the Quorum at the University City Science Center.

When Gerry Lenfest, with one stroke of his pen, gave away $100 million of his personal fortune I was privileged to be present, listening, a few steps away from the podium.

Earlier today, City Controller Alan Butkovitz announced as part of his ongoing efforts to explore how technology can be utilized to improve government functions, the idea of drone usage in order to inspect dangerous buildings in neighborhoods across the city of Philadelphia.

Philadelphia received some much deserved love from the Huffington Post last week, landing the the number five spot of places that techies should consider moving to this year.

On Tuesday morning, Comcast Business unveiled WiFi Pro, a Wifi solution that includes cloud-based controls, marketing tools and other technological capabilities.

So far, nearly 300,000 people have registered with Federal Aviation Administration after the agency required drone owners to make themselves known.

Facebook announced last Monday that its messaging platform, WhatsApp, will no longer charge a fee and will instead be free for all users of the popular social networking site to use.

On Monday, New York City’s largest Spanish-language newspaper El Diaro laid off 13 of its employees, six of which belonged to its editorial team.

Earlier this month, Philadelphia based tech company Anexinet announced that it had acquired another area tech company, ListenLogic

Councilman William Greenlee wants to do something about the young users of the popular electric scooter balance board, nicknamed the hoverboard.

Syfy announced yesterday the introduction of Syfy labs as its first ever innovation lab focused on creating multiple platform content and experiences for up and coming platforms.

A week later, the formation of the Institute of Journalism in New Media is still sending ripples through the Philadelphia journalism community

The move is an effort to broaden their multicultural and digital footprint, says company.

A lot of people that Marlon Millner sees entering the Philadelphia Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) don’t have the basic skills needed to thrive in the technological job market of today.

Through the service, GrubHub says restaurants will have access to low cost delivery options that they offer.

Guess what, Philly? We finally have our own set of emojis.

And how does she maintain Mayor Kenney’s famous Twitter presence?

Pedro Ramos joined the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com owner H. F. (Gerry) Lenfest and publisher Terry Egger in announcing the formation of the Institute for Journalism in New Media Tuesday morning.

Comcast and Technical.ly Philly, today announced the Tomorrow Tour, a multi-city event series that will bring together entrepreneurs and technology

A Philadelphia tech firm, Connectify, has developed a free app that will allow smartphone users to combine their Wi-Fi, mobile data and Bluetooth connections create a very strong amplified signal.

The City of Philadelphia released a video as part of its continuing effort to educate Philadelphians on open data.