Playwrights Horizons, an Off Broadway nonprofit, announced plans to offer a ticketing service called AVTiki, where users can buy show tickets through Facebook. They will be the first NY Stage Company to pilot AVTiki which was created by Audience View with the goal of easing the gap between hearing [Full Story…]
#NYPD Uses #Facebook to Catch Criminals
February 12, 2013 at 9:36 am
NYPD officers in Brownsville, Brooklyn are having success using social media to try to catch suspects, the New York Post reported. After searching through Facebook and other social media sights, they found 199 guns last year alone, more than any other precinct in the city. When scouring the web, [Full Story…]
Chris Kelly Invests $1M in NY-Based Magnify
February 1, 2013 at 12:14 pm
Magnify just raised $1 million of a planned $7 million second round of funding. Chris Kelly, Facebook’s former general counsel and chief privacy officer, led the round. Kelly told VentureBeat that Magnify could become a “Wordpress for video creation on the Web.” The NY-based [Full Story…]
#Foursquare Turns to #Facebook for Recommendations
December 23, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Foursquare says the best recommendations come from friends--and it now will use Facebook’s data to boost its business.The NY-based location service said in a blog post, “By expanding your recommendations to include your Facebook friends who are on Foursquare, you’ll get even better [Full Story…]
#Apple Wants #Foursquare Data For Mapping App
December 19, 2012 at 11:18 am
Apple is in discussions to incorporate NY-based Foursquare’s local data into its mapping app. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is in talks with several companies, including Yelp, to improve the map service, which had a flawed release in September. Speculation about a deal grew after Eddy [Full Story…]
NJ #Journalist Wins #Election With 24-Hour #Facebook Campaign
December 2, 2012 at 10:10 am
NJ journalist Jim Cook won an election using only Facebook. AllFacebook reports that the online editor of the South Jersey Times waged a 24-hour campaign for a seat on the Woodstown-Pilesgrove Board of Education. He updated his Facebook status on the evening of Nov. 5, asking friends to write him in [Full Story…]
Barred From Social Media, Wall Street Finds a Workaround
November 27, 2012 at 9:58 am
Lots of people are plugged into social media all day, yet access to Facebook, Twitter and most music and video streaming sites are blocked at Wall Street firms. Regulations require financial institutions to keep records of all employee communication, but there’s no way to monitor Facebook chats [Full Story…]
Exchanges Vie for Tech Sector #IPOs
November 20, 2012 at 9:36 am
Competition for tech sector IPOs is heating up. The Nasdaq OMX Group (NDAQ) has but a narrow lead over NYSE Euronext (NYX), which recently floated IPOs for Trulia and Workday Inc. Nasdaq, which lists Google, Apple and Microsoft, was a tech sector magnet. But in 2008, NYSE relaxed requirements and [Full Story…]
Facebook Reschedules Gifts Event for November 15th
November 12, 2012 at 8:21 am
Facebook rescheduled its Gifts event for November 15. This is the second attempt by the company to host the event since Hurricane Sandy. It was originally scheduled for November 1, according to CNET, but will still take place at FAO Schwartz in Manhattan. Hurricane Sandy caused power outages and [Full Story…]
How #NYTech Can Help Solve Disaster Problems #Sandy
November 7, 2012 at 4:24 pm
Dan Porter, CEO of gaming company OMGPOP, wrote an article for Business Insider about how tech founders should be working to solve huge problems that were exposed by hurricane Sandy. He and his wife used Facebook and Twitter to reach out to people and foundations that needed help after Sandy hit. [Full Story…]
LocalVox Acquires Postling for its Dashboard
November 1, 2012 at 4:27 pm
LocalVox, a NY-based local marketing platform, announced today that it has acquired Postling, which has developed a social media marketing dashboard. Postling’s dashboard is used by more than 20,000 small businesses and it’s integrated into LocalVox’s new product, described as a kind of inbox [Full Story…]
Social Media Relied On, But Not Entirely Reliable During #Sandy
November 1, 2012 at 1:55 pm
With many NYers still without power since Sandy swept through the city, many have been staying abreast of the news and keeping in touch via social media. According to the Twitter app Hootsuite, “Sandy” was mentioned 4.8 million times on social media sites Monday, up from 1.9 million the day [Full Story…]
#Sandy Forces NY Tech Employees to Work from Home
October 31, 2012 at 3:05 pm
With most of Lower Manhattan still without power, tech companies in Silicon Alley are also dark. Google closed is gigantic Chelsea office and told its 2,000 NYC employees to stay home until further notice. Even thought Facebook’s Madison Ave. office has power, it told employees to work form home [Full Story…]
NY Dating Site Asks for Verification and References
October 27, 2012 at 12:03 pm
New dating site Mirror launched back in March with the goal of getting rid of liars in the online dating arena. The site require complete transparency. Mirror users must give their e-mail and a real phone number for blind-text messaging. According to NY Post, the site also has a verification [Full Story…]
Girls Who Code Looks to Train One Million Female Coders #gwcgala
October 24, 2012 at 4:19 pm
Recently, Girls Who Code hosted a gala at the NYSE to show off demos from its inaugural class and to announce a new goal to train one million girls in computer science by 2020. Girls Who Code is a nonprofit co-founded by Reshma Saujani and Kristen Titus. According to BetaBeat, the program offers [Full Story…]
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