Google now says only 39,000 users were affected by a bug that wiped out data in some accounts completely yesterday. Brooklynite Julia West is one of... MORE»
George Kliavkoff went to Hearst back in 2009 to help the company figure out how to build or buy some new digital... MORE»
There is a complex fan dance that goes on between start-ups and the institutions that support them. VCs and investment banks want to find and befriend the most promising start-ups before anyone else. At the same time, few of these promising young candidates will mature into profitable clients in the near future. So scouting the best crop of upcoming talent is... MORE»
When news of JP Morgan's new $1.2 billion digital growth fund first broke two weeks ago, the NY Post reported that a significant portion of that capital was earmarked for investment in... MORE»
Three weeks ago, newly-relaunched Gawker hit the web with a curious omission: the row of social media widgets frequently attached to blog posts across the web (examples below and to the right of this... MORE»
Rockville Central, a local news site in Rockville, Maryland, is ditching its entire website for... MORE»
Foursquare, the digital equivalent of carving "I wuz here" on the walls of New York's healthiest restaurants and most excellent nightlife venues, is cultivating a userbase of mega-narcissists.... MORE»
New York's Vulture will no longer need to wonder what pop culture topics are worth writing about. It's partnered with Trendrr to create an Anticipitation Index that measures online buzz. By now most folks are familiar with the SEO stylings of publishers like AOL/HuffPo, who often write stores--"What Time is the Superbowl"--to match a particular audience demand according to what people are... MORE»
New York City does not have the most developers, the hottest apps or a critical mass of public tech companies, but this city's tech scene is bloody organized. We Are NY Tech, supported by a cabal of local tech powerhouses including betaworks, General Assembly and TechStars, launched a website today for all things New York at South By... MORE»
The ad-tech companies creating better systems to track user behavior online are flush with cash from venture capital firms, especially in New York. "It's a huge market and it's growing," says Chris Fralic, a managing partner at First Round Capital, told the Wall Street Journal. First Round is the biggest backers of this sector among VCs anywhere in the... MORE»
Twitter was abuzz this week with the news that Square, the start-up service that allows anyone with an iPhone and a small white device to process credit cards, was dropping its steep transaction fees. One business that had an especially caffeinated reaction was Joe: The Art of Coffee, who tweeted that their new Columbia University location was using Square to process credit card... MORE»
Brand new start-up Hyperpublic is taking a novel strategy to wooing tech talent by gamifying the process with a two-part programming challenge. "We just felt like there is so much noise out there," founder Jordan Cooper told The Observer. "Tons of companies with no real engineering culture begging for engineers to come work with them." The challenge consists of two questions: one easy, one hard, and can be completed using any... MORE»
Local creative strategist Amrit Richmond won the web's heart with Nerd Valentine, a gift guide for geeks that went viral leading up to the holiday. The project received 425,000+ page views from 40,000+ unique nerds around the world in the few weeks it... MORE»
Statistics from web analytics vendor Compete showed that the popular social media news site Mashable could be losing its lead over now Aol-owned TechCrunch, the subject of a post on Observer.com yesterday. But Mashable contacted The Observer, saying Compete's data is... MORE»
Two professors and a data scientist met in January last year over milkshakes, but it was with a sense of urgency. "We felt like we needed to do something as soon as possible, if not sooner," said Chris Wiggins, an applied mathematics professor at Columbia. "There was starting to be an increase in New York City startups and the startups felt like they didn't have access to good coders. We didn't want the startup scene in New York to choke before it could really... MORE»
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