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Hackers

Doom: Hackers Could Wreak Havoc On Wall Street's High-Frequency Trades

Pop art.
Wall Street

Bubblemania: Is It Time to be Skeptical of the Skeptics?

By Emily Witt | February 8, 2011 | 8:12 pm

The worse the economy gets, the more Peter Schiff gets to be on televison--or at least that is how it was until recently. Mr. Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, was one of the notorious market pessimists (or, in his opinion, realists) who forecast the collapse of the housing bubble before it happened. From 2004 to 2006, when the housing boom was going strong, he was only very rarely asked to offer his apocalyptic views on the economy in a television appearance.... MORE»

From the Finance File

The New Normal in Commercial Real Estate Finance

By Scott A. Singer | February 8, 2011 | 12:20 pm

From a transactional standpoint, each of the past few years has had a palpable feel, both along the way and in hindsight. If 2007 was "the top of the world," 2008 was evenly divided between "the precipice" and "the abyss." And 2009 was "the year when nothing... MORE»

Elizabeth and Felix Rohatyn.
Manhattan Transfers

810 Fifth and Taxes: Felix Rohatyn Gives Co-op, $11.25 M. to Family Trust

By Matt Chaban | February 4, 2011 | 8:27 am

Felix G. Rohatyn, the titantic Lazard banker, has been much in the news in recent years, as he reflects on his specialities, profligate bankers and broken public finances. Mr. Rohatyn is most often remembered not for the usual business of big deals, though there are those--KKR and RJR Nabisco, Sony and Capital--but his hand in helping save New York City from bankruptcy in the 1970s. Now, Mr. Rohatyn is saving his palatial Fifth Avenue home for future... MORE»

Battle of the Bond Girls

By Maureen Tkacik | February 1, 2011 | 6:49 pm

When the municipal bond market plunged in 1933, Louis Lebenthal distinguished himself for his lengthy sermons condemning the then popular "tax strike" movement. He castigated "tax slackers" as unpatriotic dolts who threatened to destroy not only the credit ratings of the municipalities whose bonds he sold but the "general community as well." ... MORE»

Get those numbers crunching! 30 Rock.
lease beat

Ending Epic Office Search, Deloitte Headed to 30 Rock

By Laura Kusisto | January 26, 2011 | 6:25 pm

Long one of the looming giants on the hunt for Manhattan office space, Deloitte has finally settled on roughly 430,000 square feet at 30... MORE»

The Hamptons or Siberia? It's certainly not Malibu.
Cleaning Up

Can a Hamptons Rehab Center Cure Wall Street's Addictions?

By Matt Chaban | January 26, 2011 | 12:07 pm

New York, you have a problem, but the rest of the country is here to help. Minnesota's Hazelden Addiction Treatment Center is already working on a new rehab center in Tribeca, and now The Journal reports that California clinic Passages, which holds retreats in Malibu and Ventura, is thinking of opening a branch in the... MORE»

the lead indicator

Investment Touchstones for 2011

By Sam Chandan | January 20, 2011 | 1:15 pm

New York City has been at the fore of the current recovery in multifamily and commercial real estate investment activity. Signaling institutional investors' renewed confidence in the city's broader economic and employment outlook, the recent rebound in property sales has provoked deals that recall some of the most visible acquisitions from before the financial crisis. Bolstered by a cluster of large year-end transactions, Manhattan alone accounted for nearly 10 percent of the nation's commercial property sales in... MORE»

Googling at New Work City.
Planet Google

Google Is New Work City's Secret New Sponsor

By Adrianne Jeffries | January 19, 2011 | 5:29 pm

Google is sponsoring New Work City's NWCU, an initiative consisting of 12 to 15 recurring classes, workshops, and speaker panels created to offer members of the coworking community new skills and more opportunities to get together. Google's developer relations team will be working with NWCU to develop hackathons, seminars, and other programming designed to teach people how to use Google's platforms, like Chrome, Android, App Engine or Google... MORE»

A suggestion box away from a smooth-running city.
Metro Tech

City Deploys Startup to Crowdsource for Increased Efficiency

By Mike Taylor | January 19, 2011 | 2:44 pm

As Mayor Bloomberg worked through his state of the city address today, his office simultaneously announced a new software-based initiative to help foster communication among city employees and hopefully make it more responsive to the needs of the citizenry. It's also setting up a kind of digital suggestion box so employees can give their ideas to the city and make it better.... MORE»

Love Quora or hate Quora, it's still an obsession.
Q&A

The Wall Street Journal Does Not Love Quora

By Adrianne Jeffries | January 19, 2011 | 1:43 pm

If you follow techies in the Twittersphere, you know that hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet have met, fallen in love with and married Quora, the hottest startup question-and-answer scene. The Wall Street Journal just discovered Quora, however, and did not fall in love: "I found it uninviting, geeky and poorly explained," Katherine Boehret writes in the course of a lengthy... MORE»

Ms. Chiesi.
Insider Trading

Chiesi to Plead Guilty in Galleon Insider Case: Report

By Mike Taylor | January 19, 2011 | 1:09 pm

Danielle Chiesi, former NewCastle Partners consultant and ex-beauty queen, will plead guilty this afternoon in an insider trading probe tied to the Galleon Group hedge fund, according to The New York... MORE»

The next Seamless Web update will actually shove food through users' screens.
app for that

Seamless Web App Brings New Levels of Laziness to Android

By Adrianne Jeffries | January 19, 2011 | 11:53 am

Seamless Web hit the Android App Market yesterday just in time for Slushpocalypse, reports Mashable's Jolie O'Dell. The app is now available to Android users in addition to iPhone and BlackBerry users, who no longer need both a phone and a computer in order to cause specific foods to be prepared and seamlessly delivered to their doors.... MORE»

Venture Capital

Research: New York Tech Investment Is Cheap, Accelerating and ... Temperate?

By Mike Taylor | January 19, 2011 | 9:47 am

InSiteNY, a local venture capital think tank of sorts, offers a look at early-stage technology investment in New York and Silicon Valley, and its findings confirm several of the buzz phrases floating around Manhattan tech circles. First up, starting a company just isn't as expensive as it used to be (a couple years... MORE»

But which way will the money flow?
online advertising

Even in a 2011 Boom, Social Networks Will Be Small Ad Players

By Mike Taylor | January 19, 2011 | 9:41 am

Even though ad revenue is expected to surge for social networking sites, online communities will only represent a small portion of overall advertising spending, according to a report by Deloitte published at... MORE»

How did those squirrels even get into our datacenter?
downtime

101 Reasons Tumblr Could Be Down

By Adrianne Jeffries | January 19, 2011 | 8:38 am

Service over at the local blogmonger Tumblr has been sputtering over the past month or so. But the site's error page, an old-fashioned flip board that says "We'll be back shortly," is nowhere near as cute as Twitter's fail whale. Adam Hemphill, a San Francisco developer who works for Wired, created wellbebackshortly.com so people could have something to look at during Tumblr's not-infrequent... MORE»