April 2010
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"Owned Media" Topic at IAB Social Media... →
Increasingly, advertisers are having to create web site content that not only sells their products, but engages their consumers despite — not necessarily because of — their products, panelists at…
Cubic to Provide MetroCard Fare Collectors to NYCT →
Under a $10 million contract signed last year, Cubic will provide more than 200 MetroCard Fare Collectors to New York City Transit. The Fare Collectors help NYCT speed bus service to handle…
Why-2K Movement Seeks Change in LLC Requirement →
Members of the NY Tech Meetup are pushing for a change in the state law that requires new limited liability corporations to announce their formation in the media. Currently, every new LLC must…
AOL Plans to Jettison Bebo →
AOL has told employees that it plans to sell or shut down the social networking site Bebo. AOL acquired the service two years ago for $850 million, hoping to build on its popularity in…
College Students Demo at April NY Tech Meetup →
NYConvergence ORIGINAL The April 2010 NY Tech Meetup began with demos by area college students Tuesday night at the SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology’s Haft Auditorium in Manhattan’s…
Verizon Urges FCC to Decide MSG HD Complaint →
Verizon Communications is using its corporate blog to protest the FCC’s failure to act on its complaint that NY-based Cablevision is unlawfully withholding HD sports programming. Bill Kula,…
Time Warner Cable's Roudi Discusses NY Wi-Max →
Time Warner Cable, in collaboration with Clearwire, will be binging its Road Runner wireless service to the NY metropolitan area in 2010, according to Mike Roudi, group VP. Road Runner is a…
Verizon Told Apple of Interest in iPhone, CEO Said →
Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg said the company told Apple of Verizon’s interest in carrying the iPhone, which is now only available through AT&T. In remarks before the Council on Foreign…
140 Characters Conference to be Held April 20-21 →
The 140 Characters Conference:New York City is scheduled for April 20-21 at the 92nd Street Y. Organized by Jeff Keni Pulver, the event expects to be a worldwide gathering of people interested in…
Hearst Launches, Relaunches Several Sites →
Hearst is “launching and relaunching” several Web sites in order to “improve the online presence of its magazines as well as its digital-only publications,” according to FishbowlNY.
On April 8,…
Cost-Cutting Sparks Growth in NJ Data Centers →
NYC-based financial services firms looking to lower their IT costs are increasingly using data storage centers in New Jersey, the Star-Ledger reports. While data centers in North Jersey have…
Foursquare Founder Nominated for Time 100 →
Time has named Dennis Crowley, 33-year-old co-founder and CEO of Foursquare, a candidate for its list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
The magazine credits Foursquare…
NY Digital Set Gathers at NoHo Bar →
Tom & Jerry’s, a bar on Elizabeth Street in NY’s NoHo section, is the place where Internet start-up founders, digital advertisers, bloggers, social media site gurus and technology writers hang out…
Gowalla Announces NJ Nets Promotion →
Social networking startup Gowalla has teamed up on a ticket promotion with the New Jersey Nets. Users of the check-in service can attend the last game of the season free if they find one of 500…
Online Advertising Discussed by Ultra Light Panel →
Online advertising is heading for a Golden Age, Jonathan Hsu, CEO of 24/7 Real Media told an audience at NYU’s Polytechnic Incubator Thursday night. At a panel discussion sponsored by Ultra…
Tekserve to Host Electronics Recycling Event →
Tekserve, located in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, has teamed up again with the Lower East Side Ecology Center to offer free electronics recycling on Saturday, April 10, from 10 AM to 4 PM….
NY Philharmonic Offers iTunes Downloads →
The New York Philharmonic is offering classical digital downloads. Orchestras have always needed recordings as marketing tools. Records spread their fame and bestow their musical interpretations…
Mediabistro Presents Think Mobile on April 7 →
Mobile “pioneers” such as Jeff Litvack, general manager mobile and emerging products at the Associated Press, will be speaking at the conference. It will focus on mobile strategy and provide…
NY Blog Lists Best/Worst Yankee Internet Sites →
While the NY Yankees are never under reported, Mike Silva’s New York Baseball Digest listed some of the best and the worst Internet sites that discuss the team. Among the best: The LoHud Blog…
'Fledgling' Tech Firms 'Flocking' To Manhattan →
According to RoseTech Ventures’ David Rose, there are “at least 100 tech firms within six blocks of the southern end of Madison Square Park.” Crain’s New York Business adds that the volume of…
Computer Glitch Costs NY $140M in Medicaid →
More than $140 million in NY state taxpayer dollars over the last decade has been “squandered” because of a computer glitch whcih put “thousands” of ineligible people on the public…
Verizon Wireless Boosts 3G Net in CT →
Verizon Wireless upgraded its 3G Network in some areas of CT that have been heavily impacted by increased use of data by smart phones. The company upgraded cell sites in Greenwich, Stratford and…
What Was IPad Launch Day Like in New York? →
Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Arik Hesseldahl stopped by the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan’s Midtown neighborhood this past Saturday and found: The scene to be “calmer and the number of…
Manhattan Neighborhood Network Seeks Programming →
Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN), NYC’s Public Access channel, which offers four channels in over half a million homes, is seeking “fresh” summer programming.
The network is currently…
Monetizing Social Media Discussed by Plugged In... →
NYConvergence ORIGINAL by: Esther Surden A panel of NY area social media entrepreneurs, industry executives, and venture capital angels considered the question of how social media can be…
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NYConvergence This week, NYConvergence kept tabs on all of the Apple iPad news, which as the week progressed, became almost all the media, magazine and publishing industries…
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Will Foursquare Fall Victim to 'Check-in Fatigue'? →
Venture Capital Dispatch’s Timothy Hay wonders in a recent post about the possibility of what he terms “check-in fatigue,” a situation which could develop if nothing novel is found to do with…
NY Court Revives Tiffany's False Ad Claim Vs. EBay →
The Associated Press is reporting that a federal appeals court late last week said EBay Inc. might be violating false-advertising laws if it does not warn consumers that some items billed as…
NY Magazine Industry Braces for Apple IPad →
WNYC notes that most “haven’t even touched” the iPad; all they know is that it “has the potential to dramatically change the way they do business.”
Zinio, a company that’s working on the backend…
Apple Approves NY Times Editors' Choice App →
Apple has approved and releases the NYT Editors’ Choice app to the iPad App Store. This app will offer users a limited selection of news, opinions, and features, as well as a “bunch” of pictures…
Vidyo Raises $25 Million For Videoconference... →
Vidyo, a New Jersey based provider of videoconferencing services, announced today that it had raised $25 million in its third round of venture capital financing.
The company will use the funds to…
Apple: The Perfect Device For Manhattan →
According to Andrew Essex, advertising executive and former Details editor, Apple devices are quintessentially Manhattanite, catering exquisitely to New Yorkers’ vanity. With the upcoming release…
Wall Street Journal IPad App Available Today →
The Wall Street Journal is unveiling a free iPad app today with selected news stories, videos, and slideshows for non-subscribers, but another array of content for people willing to pay $3.99 a…
Bronx Biz Offers Buildings Free Wi-Fi →
Urban Telephone and Video, a small minority-owned firm in The Bronx, has been “quietly” erecting a wireless broadband network in a joint venture with the South Bronx Overall Economic Development…
LearnVest Raises $4.5 Million in First Funding... →
LearnVest has raised $4.5 million in its first round of funding which was led by Accel Partners. The Web site focuses on personal finance for women. Content includes a daily e-mail with “hip…
24-Hour Hackathon HackNY.org Begins Tonight →
HackNY.org, a 24-hour hackathon presented by the ACM chapters of New York University (NYU) and Columbia University, ADI at Columbia, and tech@NYU, starts tonight at 7 PM at the Courant Institute…
Crain's NY Releases 40 Under 40 List →
Crain’s New York has published their annual list of 40 under 40’s from various industries as “rising stars” to watch in 2010. Included on the list are 11 young New Yorkers in the technology and…
Gossip Blogs' Rising Stars →
The New York Times published a list of nine up and coming bloggers to look out for yesterday including:
Erin Carlson, Editor at Crushable, known for getting the scoop on Rob Kardashian and…
Proposal Writing Seminar for Tech NYC SMBs →
On Thursday April 22nd, The New York City Economic Development Corporation and the Department of Small Business Services will present a workshop on how small businesses in the technology sector…
Intel, AMD Servers to Run NYSE Data Center →
NYSE Euronext is in the process of equipping its new Mahwah, NJ data center and will be using it to resposition itself as a “technology leader of trading services.”
Instead of “ultra-big servers”…
Will Condé Nast Choose IPad Over The Web? →
Gawker Media’s Valleywag is reporting that the NYC-based magazine group plans to release articles from titles with an iPad edition on that device first and then, several days later, on the Web….
Silverman: VC Funding Market Remains 'Depressed' →
In a presentation of the PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) 15th Annual MoneyTree Report at the New York Technology Council meeting, PwC partner David Silverman said the market for venture-capital…
Microsoft, Ford Announce Electric Vehicle... →
On the first day of the International Auto Show in New York City, Microsoft and Ford announced a strategic partnership on electricity management.
The two companies are working together to…
About Half of NYC Security Cams Don't Work →
About half of the 4,313 security cameras set up in the New York City subways are inoperable. Many are out of commission because of heat, water or electrical problems. Others are under construction…
Gawker Focuses on "Branded Traffic" Not Pageviews →
NY’s Gawker Media is strengthening its “branded traffic” which the company defines as audiences “with a declared intent to visit its sites.” Gawker measures these readers who keep on coming back…
Who Are NYC's Seed Funds? →
Phil Michaelson has compiled a list of these “mostly new” seed funds in NYC on his Web site. According to Michaelson, these funds are “willing to make investments ranging from $250,000 to…
Celebrity-Sponsored Tweets "Waste of Money" →
During a panel at the BRITE Conference, going on now through tomorrow at Columbia University, Yahoo’s principal research scientist Duncan Watts presented his findings on influencers on …
Next NYC MySQL Group MeetUp on 4/16 →
The next MeetUp for New York City’s MySQL Group is taking place on Wednesday, April 14th at 6PM at Oracle’s NYC Headquarters on 520 Madison Avenue. The event features Ed Boyajian, CEO of …
Facing Alleged Hacker Threat, Apple to Withhold... →
Following claims of the discovery of an unusual high-power rooftop Wi-Fi transmitter installed in the Chatham Square vicinity downtown, Apple reportedly is withholding all deliveries…