As part of it's battle against Apple, Inc., Samsung will open an accelerator in Chelsea in June, Crains New York reports. The space will be dedicated to entrepreneurs who want to help Samsung develops products and services that can join together their different devices, from smart phones, to [Full Story…]
Sen. Schumer and Google Unveil New Free Chelsea WiFi Network
January 8, 2013 at 9:48 am
Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) joins Google in announcing neighborhood-wide free WiFi in Chelsea Tuesday morning. The free WiFi network extends from Gansevoort Street and 19th Street to Eighth Avenue and the West Side Highway. The network will help attract new tech businesses to the area, including [Full Story…]
Fire in Google’s Chelsea Building Forces Hundreds to Evacuate
January 12, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Hundreds of workers were forced to leave their desks at Google's Chelsea office building after a fire broke out yesterday morning. According to DNAinfo, the fire started at about 8:15 am and reportedly began on the third floor where construction work was being done. "The matter was resolved [Full Story…]
Former Students Laud NY-Area Teachers on Facebook
July 17, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Former students in the tri-state area are turning to Facebook walls and tribute pages to tell their teachers how much they meant to them, expressing sentiments they couldn't in their youth. In the weeks before his death, Jerry Sheik, a retired band teacher who worked at Intermediate School 70 in [Full Story…]
New York Artists Create #Hashtag class
April 24, 2010 at 10:00 am
Earlier this year, artists Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida began conducting a class at the Edward Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea. What made this class unique was that it evolved into a global arts discussion that has grown over Twitter. Using hashtags #class and #hashtagclass, people from across [Full Story…]
NY Tech Meetup Hosts First 2010 Gathering
January 6, 2010 at 4:11 pm
NYConvergence ORIGINAL The NY Tech Meetup hosted its first 2010 gathering at SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology's Haft Auditorium in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood last night. The evening kicked off with four one-minute long "pitches" from New-York based startups, including:- [Full Story…]
Google News’s Man Behind the Scenes
December 12, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Recently, The New York Observer profiled Josh Cohen, the senior business project manager for Google News. Based out Google's Chelsea, headquarters in New York, Cohen liaisons daily with media publishers, brokers content-licensing deals and works with Web site engineers about news [Full Story…]
Who Are Google’s Chelsea Neighbors?
November 23, 2009 at 9:23 am
The Business Insider, which recently took a tour of Google's offices, sent a photographer out to take photos of the "trendy [Manhattan] neighborhood" in which the search company is located. Their photo album is available here.Business InsiderPrevious:> Google's New York [Full Story…]
‘Business Insider’ Publishes Who’s Who at Google NY
November 20, 2009 at 9:30 am
Following its tour of Google's office earlier this week, the online general-business publication put together a list of which of the 2,000 employees at Google's headquarters in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood "matter" based on conversations with Googlers, ex-Googlers, and [Full Story…]
Google Maps Developed Out of New York Office
November 18, 2009 at 3:00 pm
With 700 to 800 of Google engineers stationed at their New York headquarters in Chelsea, it seems that many of them work on almost all Google products with their counterparts at their global headquarters in Mountain View, California, according to Silicon Alley Insider. There are certain Google [Full Story…]
Google’s New York Funhouse HQ
November 17, 2009 at 9:10 am
After taking a recent tour of their NY headquarters, Silicon Alley Insider posted photos from their visit to Google's offices in Chelsea. Housed in the former Port Authority Building, the office has between 700 and 800 employees, many of which are in sales and engineering. The office includes [Full Story…]
ArtBridge Finds Artist Participants Online
March 20, 2009 at 4:00 pm
The organization has clad the scaffolding surrounding the London Terrace Gardens apartment complex in Manhattan's West Chelsea neighborhood with the work of 26 local artists. The brainchild of artist Rodney Durso, artists were selected from suggestions made on the organization's Web [Full Story…]
Consumer, Developer Tools Demoed at Tech Meetup
July 2, 2008 at 10:22 am
NYConvergence Last night's NY Tech Meetup (either the "46th or 47th") began with Meetup.com CEO Scott Heiferman welcoming the attendees back to the IAC building in Chelsea and moved quickly to the seven presentations: Transclick, a Web services provider that offers real-time IM, Web page, [Full Story…]
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