June 2012
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Reinvent Green Hackathon →
Find out more about the City’s Reinvent Green Hackathon taking place this weekend!
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We are excited to announce — for the very first time — the categories for the Reinvent Green Hackathon:
- Popular Choice App*, sponsored by Google
- Best App for City Crowdsourcing, sponsored by 10gen
- Best App for Recycling, sponsored by I2BF Global Ventures
- Best App for…
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The New York Commute
Source: 2006-2010 American Community Survey
It’s no surprise that most commuters in New York City get to work by public transit, with our famously extensive subway and bus system. When compared to the nation, the difference is striking: about 55 percent of commuters in the City use public transportation, compared to just 4.9 percent nationally. That’s because across the United States, an...
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Cornell Hires Deborah Estrin as First NYC Tech...
Cornell University today announced the hiring of Deborah L. Estrin as a Professor of Computer Science, and the first professor for CornellNYC Tech. She is the Founding Director of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), funded by the NSF, and a professor of computer science at the University of California Los Angeles.
Estrin is a pioneer in networked sensing, which uses mobile and...
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Statement of Mayor Bloomberg on Death of Nora... →
“The loss of Nora Ephron is a devastating one for New York City’s arts and cultural community. From her earliest days at New York City’s newspapers to her biggest Hollywood successes, Nora always loved a good New York story, and she could tell them like no one else. The books, movies and plays that she set in the world’s greatest city are classics that will be enjoyed for generations, but New...
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Ad-tech firm chooses New York →
Despite the intense competition in New York for data scientists—and top engineers in general—TruEffect felt it could find in New York talent that would be hard to hire elsewhere.
Read more in Crain’s New York Business and find out about big data opportunities for New York City’s media industry.
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NYC GOV: Today, Mayor Bloomberg announced the... →
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Today, Mayor Bloomberg announced the launch of the City’s Business Customer Service initiative, which will make it easier for businesses to deal with city government and to create new jobs. The Mayor appointed Tokumbo Shobowale as the City’s first Chief Business Operations Officer who will…
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Introducing @NYCGob
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@NYCgov is now available in Spanish: follow our new Spanish-language twitter feed, @NYCGob. Para noticias, eventos, y información general sobre la cuidad en tu idioma, síguenos en Twitter
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“New York City has rebounded from the recession faster than the rest of the...”
– NYC jobs coming back – 79,000 added last month (New York Post)
Learn how NYCEDC is helping to create jobs throughout the five boroughs. www.nycedc.com/jobcreation
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Immigrants outpacing the general population in... →
Immigrant entrepreneurship is on the rise both in New York City and across the country, with immigrants owning a disproportionately large number of small businesses, according to a just released study from the Fiscal Policy Institute.
More key facts and figures about immigrant entrepreneurship in NY Daily News. Learn how NYCEDC is helping to support immigrant entrepreneurship in the City.
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“The reason people don’t want to be in Silicon Valley is because while it’s...”
– Facebook exec tells the truth: New York City bests Silicon Valley (NY Daily News)
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Reinvent Green Hackathon
NYC developers, interested in creating apps that encourage a greener NYC? Apply for the Reinvent Green Hackathon! Applications are due this Sunday, June 17th.
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(Photo Credit: Pieter Dom)
The City of New York is excited to announce Reinvent Green, the City’s first sustainability hackathon. Taking place at NYU-Poly in Brooklyn from June 30-July 1, the hackathon aims to rally and...
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Big Apple + Big Data = Big Bang
The volume, velocity, variety, and value of private sector, government, and individual data have expanded with a big bang, opening up a whole new universe of Big Data: datasets whose sizes are beyond the ability of typical databases to capture, store, manage, and analyze.
Tech research firm IDC estimates that digital data is more than doubling every two years, much of which are stored in...
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In tech, N.Y. wants to be king of the hill, top of... →
Perhaps the city’s grandest plan is to set up a tech university on Roosevelt Island, located in New York’s East River. Bloomberg chose partners Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to build and operate the school, which will focus on attracting tech talent and fostering entrepreneurship. (CNET News)
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“The growth of the NYC tech community has been well documented, that said, there...”
– Dave Tisch, Managing Director of TechStars NY, as told to The Next Web in “The state of the New York tech scene in 2012”
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2012 BioAccelerate NYC Prize Winners
Congrats to four New York City scientists who have been awarded a total of $1 million in research funding to develop biomedical devices and products, as winners of the third annual BioAccelerate NYC competition. Partnership for New York City announced that each scientist will receive $250,000 to assist in the development of their products right here in NYC through the most risky stage for...
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Silicon Alley A to Z →
Crain’s New York’s guide to the “fastest-changing scene in town”:
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Roosevelt Island
New York City’s answer to Stanford and Silicon Valley. Roosevelt Island is the site of a new $2 billion applied-sciences university to be built over the next 25 years by Cornell University and Israel’s Technion University. Cornell alumnus Charles F. Feeney, of Atlantic...
