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Startups See Boom in Hiring and with New Office Space

NYConvergence

There is no recession in New York’s startup scene. According to The New York Post, Foursquare, Seamless, Etsy, Ideeli and ZocDoc are hiring so many people that they need more office space. They are looking for more than just software engineers. Ideeli,... »

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NBC Prepares Its #SuperBowl Playbook #Giants

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NBC producer Fred Gaudelli started planning for Super Bowl XLVI in the summer of 2010. He recently took his crew to film an Indiana high school football team, the Fisher Tigers, as they ran through the offensive and defensive playbooks of the New Engla... »

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TiqIQ Raises $1.7 Million in Funding

NYConvergence

TiqIQ, the NY-based aggregator for live event ticketing, announced it has received $1.7 million in funding led by Contour Venture Partners with Inovia Capital participating. CEO Jesse Lawrence told BetaBeat that TiqIQ is the no. 1 aggregator in terms o... »

Welcome the “Boffice,” Where Freelancers Drink and Work

NYConvergence

Thirteen.org‘s Metrofocus blog took a look at a new trend, bars that offer WiFi and are home to freelance workers. NY has more than 100,000 freelancers who look for a place to work to get out of the house. The blog acknowledges that freelancers tend to... »

Nurse Net App Created By and For Nurses

NYConvergence

Robert Freeman, a registered nurse on staff at Beth Israel Hospital, created Nurse Net, a free app that gathers medical news from the top nursing websites. “Health care is always changing and the standards of care are always evolving,” Freeman told the... »

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ToutApp Aims to Make Email More Efficient

NYConvergence

ToutApp is an email time saver. Created by NYer Tawheed Kader got the idea working at hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, where his email was so overwhelming it distracted him from work. ToutApp is a web-based application that lets users reply to messag... »

The QWERTY Little Secret of Gov. Agencies

NYConvergence

NY city agencies still uses typewriters. Its typewriter contract, issued five years ago at a cost of $320,000, will soon run out. The Department of Administrative Services put out a request for bids to replace the aging fleet of 1,172 electronic typewr... »

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Startups See Boom in Hiring and with New Office Space

NYConvergence

There is no recession in New York’s startup scene. According to The New York Post, Foursquare, Seamless, Etsy, Ideeli and ZocDoc are hiring so many people that they need more office space. They are looking for more than just software engineers. Ideeli,... »

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