Posh NY metro area town Great Neck, Long Island, (followed by Park Slope in Brooklyn and the Upper East Side), are most likely to play host to cheating spouses, according to an ashleymadison.com survey reported in the NY Post. Noel Biderman, CEO of As... »
Mayor Bloomberg and NYU announced a deal today, which will place a new engineering school, the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), in Brooklyn. This is the second engineering school announced in NY’s recent tech-campus boom, the first being ... »
It was not too long ago that entrepreneurs found it extremely difficult to receive funding in NY. Today, the NY tech community booms with innovation. Steven Rosenbaum, CEO of Magnify.net and the NYCEDC’s Entrepreneur at Large, states in Forbes that th... »
By 2037, CornellNYC Tech is predicted to command over 2 million square feet of space on Roosevelt Island. The state-of-the-art campus is scheduled to begin construction in 2014, with the completion of the first building in 2017. Andrew Winters, foundin... »
Laundromats in NY have been offering pick-up and delivery services for quite some time. However, until now, there has never been a central hub for customers to choose which laundromat they want to do business with. According to BetaBeat, a few dozen st... »
Over the years AT&T has gotten a lot of flak from NYers about dropped calls and other quality issues with its wireless network both in Manhattan and in the outer boroughs. To fight the perception that it is indifferent to NYers needs, AT&T today launch... »
While NY has recently taken a major initiative in investing in higher education — most notably, its partnership with Cornell Universtiy.and Israel Technion Institute of Technology partnership to create an applied sciences campus on Roosevelt Island — q... »
Recognizing an evolving tech and social media sector, the Bloomberg administration has been embracing technology in a multitude of ways, at least according to Mayor Bloomberg’s web page. Some examples given on the site include: Mayor Bloomberg celebrat... »
According to Inside Higher Ed, when 18 universities responded to Mayor Bloomberg’s competition for a state-of-the-art applied science center, it was the largest number ever of higher ed institutions simultaneously considering stretching their infrastru... »
When NY City Council members visited Israel earlier this month, the conversation was mostly about the technology cooperation between Cornell and Israel’s Technion for the applied science campus to be built on Roosevelt Island, but the topic of Iran als... »
Today NY-based Barnes & Noble has launched a new and more affordable Nook Tablet, to better compete with Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Until this launch, the current version of the Nook available at B&N stores cost $50 more. This new version will have smaller ... »
At the same press conference yesterday at Tumblr’s HQ, where Mayor Bloomberg discussed NYCGov’s website initiatives, he also announced the appointment of Daniel P. Huttenlocher as the founding dean of the city’s new Cornell’s applied science campus on ... »
Forget about Wall Street. The tech sector is creating a new boom in NY real estate, as these new employees need places to live. Areas like DUMBO, Williamsburg, Chelsea and the Flatiron area are the neighborhoods tech employees flock to, according to Do... »
Stanford University withdrew its bid for NYs applied sciences and engineering campus because the city continually changed the terms of the offer, according to The Stanford Daily, rebutting media reports that the university was unprepared for the city’s... »
While Silicon Valley has long been known as the hub of entrepreneurialism and technological innovation, NY has too risen in prominence — it has become a city with boundless possibilities when creativity and innovation collide. The Bloomberg administrat... »
