More than 40.5 million people visited the NY public libraries last year, more than the combined attendance at professional sporting events and major cultural institutions. According to a report from Center for an Urban Future, libraries are most popular with seniors, foreign-born NYers, at-risk [Full Story…]
NY Ranks Sixth Nationally in ID Theft
March 1, 2012 at 8:11 am
NY state ranks six nationally in cases of identity theft, according to a report released by the Federal Trade Commission. Last year, the state had 18,000 complaints, up from 1,400 in 2010. Thieves are increasingly using technology to steal identities. Tammy Nealy of LifeLock, said that unsecured [Full Story…]
CityMaps Helps NY Brokerage Firms Monitor Storefront Businesses
December 11, 2011 at 9:34 am
NY-based online service CityMaps helps brokerage firms monitor fast-changing storefront businesses by providing maps of Manhattan and Brooklyn that show which businesses are on each block. “It’s a tool that I would have to say I use pretty much on a day-to-day basis,” Jill Lovatt, a [Full Story…]
StyleCaster Rises in the Fashion World
September 22, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Ari Goldberg, the founder of StyleCaster, describes his NY-based fashion site as Facebook meets Conde Nast. Launched in 2009, it has 2 million unique visitors a month and now Goldberg sits in the front row during Fashion Week. Inc. Magazine reports that Goldberg’s seating position reflects the [Full Story…]
Customer Loyalty, Pepsi and NYC’s Foursquare
April 30, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Through the use of social networking, PepsiCo. has come out with a new app for the iPhone that is intended to drive traffic to restaurants that serve Pepsi products. The app, called Pepsi Loot, is a digital loyalty card which enables customers to collect points and then redeem them for free music [Full Story…]
Mashable and CNN Host Media Summit 2010
April 23, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Mashable and CNN are hosting a joint one day conference --Mashable Media Summit 2010 -- Tuesday June 8, during Internet Week New York, at The Times Center in The New York Times building. The event, which focuses on the intersection of social and digital media, features presentations from the fields [Full Story…]
Why is The Media Business ‘Collapsing’
February 26, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Saul Hansell, formerly of The New York Times and now at AOL's Seed, believes it's because "we've simply given consumers too much choice." Speaking this week at the OMMA Behavioral conference, Hansell added that because the "supply of things you can read has increased [Full Story…]
‘Peek’ Into Your Neighbors’ Bank Statements
February 9, 2010 at 11:16 am
Bundle.com, which maps out just how much people in a particular city or demographic group spend each month, has just released some "aggregated, anonymized data" on New Yorkers' spending habits. Bundle.com is backed by Citibank, Microsoft, and Morningstar.The data "confirms [Full Story…]
Where Can You Find Free Wi-Fi in New York City?
January 25, 2010 at 8:16 am
The New York Times' Frugal Traveler has some suggestions, resulting from the column's author's interest in "experienc[ing] destinations more directly" this year via Wi-Fi, and they include: Hotels such as the Ace and the Standard,which offer it for free. And, hotels [Full Story…]
Forum To Focus on New Tech, Social Media Innovations
October 12, 2009 at 9:10 am
The forum, The Economist's Third Annual Media Convergence Forum, is scheduled to take place from October 20-21, 2009, at The Altman Building, located at 135 West 18 Street, in Manhattan's Flatiron District neighborhood. It will focus on the "surge of new technologies and social [Full Story…]
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