GovTech Biz
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The city recently launched the first phase of an online permitting portal, reflecting a larger, nationwide gov tech trend. An official leading that effort tells what the city has learned so far. -
The company, one of the few publicly traded gov tech suppliers, reports revenue growth and gains from AI and an acquisition in its latest financials. More such deals seem almost certain as Via vies for more market share.
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The world’s biggest sporting event, set for the U.S., Canada and Mexico, is months away, and that means gov tech suppliers are preparing to make sure everyone stays safe. Drones are a main area of concern.
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Various transit agencies in the New York City area will partner with nine startups on the focus areas of accessibility, revenue generation and curb space management as part of the Transit Tech Lab.
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With cannabis legalization spreading, the Massachusetts-based company is billing its mobile, all-purpose impairment app as an answer to a growing need for a validated test to keep stoned drivers in check.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has spent $1 million on a system for crisis alerts, and owes $600,000 more. But after some failures, including unneeded lockdowns and lights falling from ceilings, it wants its money back.
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According to reports, the FCC will fine wireless carrier giants AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile $200 million for selling customers’ location data to third parties without the phone users' consent.
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Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that scrapes images from social media, has sold access to this information to companies and branches of law enforcement. That client list numbering over 2,900 was just hacked.
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The Pittsburgh company is adding new features and more granular results to its software for analyzing pavement damage, with plans to move into larger cities and smaller counties in the future.
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Municipal employees in Fremont, Calif., can now hop on a self-driving shuttle to get from a train station to city offices. The company running the service, Pony.ai, just got a huge cash infusion from Toyota.
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The company has created software to help fleet managers, including school districts and municipal agencies, plan when and how to charge their electric vehicles, to make sure they hit their marks at the lowest price.
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Nextdoor says its new app makes its existing tools for public agencies accessible from mobile phones, and adds the ability to send geo-targeted alerts or communicate with the public from the field.
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Local 911 departments tend to use technology that, while old, is comfortable and familiar. But a trio of Florida counties seems to represent part of an emerging movement toward next-generation 911 and the cloud.
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A new gov tech company in Atlanta aims to sell aquatic drones to government agencies for the dual purposes of cleaning up waste and pollution as well as logging real-time water quality data.
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The nation’s largest provider of public safety software and technology has netted a massive contract, about a year after integrating with CAD-to-CAD and evidence management systems from other companies.
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With its most recent financial filings, Tyler Technologies has officially hit a major milestone: For the first time, it has topped $1 billion in annual revenue. Here's a look at the company's past 20 years.
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From climate change to housing affordability, water use and evolving transportation infrastructure, the company is staring down a barrel at looming global challenges it hopes to answer with data and AI.
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After trying Internet voting for overseas voters, West Virginia is expanding the option to those with physical disabilities. But MIT researchers now say they’ve found worrying flaws in the app the state has been using.
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Canadian company First Responder Technologies seeks to give schools, places of worship and other institutions an inexpensive and accurate method of identifying deadly weapons before tragedy strikes.
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NIC, one of the largest vendors of digital services for government, says new features in Gov2Go allow citizens to apply for and receive a passport in as few as three days.
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The company, now called Be Heard, has launched a blockchain-based solution for verifying users' identities it thinks could help with things like municipal IDs. The twist: All information is stored on a person's device.
