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... »
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... »
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 ... »
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... »
A flurry of secret meetings and careful cultivation lead to Cornell University’s union with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to capture the winning bid for the city’s proposed Roosevelt Island campus. David J. Skorton, Cornell’s president, waite... »
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 ... »
