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The city was named as a Top Tech City by Popular Science in 2005, and five Fortune 500 companies have their offices in the city.
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A group of prominent New York - based tech bigwigs want Amazon to bring its second headquarters — dubbed by Amazon as «HQ2 ″ — to the city.
With a burgeoning tech industry that's expected to grow by more than 15,000 jobs over the next four years, Vancouver makes the ideal location for the first Red Academy, but Gilbert says she and Mansell hope to take the concept beyond B.C. and open locations in other major Canadian cities.
That's one of the main findings of a new report on high - tech incubators and accelerators, published by the not - for - profit Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and by JP Morgan Chase.
Robertson's economic vision places special emphasis on the clean - tech sector, part of his drive to make Vancouver the world's greenest city by 2020.
The city's efforts to position itself as a hub of the global high - tech entrepreneurial community will be showcased this week with its five - day Digital Life Design (DLD) festival, driven by the mission to create a network of innovation, digital prospects, science and culture.
«Meet People Who Don't Work in Tech,» reads the ad on Facebook by San Francisco - based startup UpOut, seeming to voice a collective desire of city residents.
A recent viral open letter to San Francisco city officials by startup Commando.io founder Justin Keller serves as an example of such tech bro - iness.
New York increased the number of digital jobs in the city by 80 %, thanks to a push to boost its tech economy between 2007 to 2011.
The legal battle pitches one of the world's richest cities against a tech giant known for its forays into new markets around the world that have prompted bans, restrictions and protests, including by drivers of London's famous black cabs.
Take some tips from Charles Bonello, cofounder of Grand Central Tech, a community of startups and partners that breaks from the traditional accelerator model by providing accepted companies free office space in New York City for a year without requiring equity.
The temporary tax break attracted fast - growing tech companies to San Francisco's Mid-Market and Tenderloin neighborhoods by offering them an exemption from the city's 1.5 percent payroll tax in exchange for community work.
He had initiated discussions with investors in the same week he did back - t0 - back keynote speeches at two big tech conferences, in two different cities, one of them sponsored by his own company.
One of the first cities to pioneer Google Fiber and the home of tech event South by Southwest Interactive, Silicon Hills is a keen spot to start up.
Progress was slow as the company focused on the Spotify transaction and was exploring the possibility of a Hong Kong listing as the city's exchange operator unveiled plans to encourage more tech companies to list in the city by loosening listing rules, reported IFR.
Home to nearly 600 tech companies, Alpharetta was recently named the best small U.S. city to start a business by NerdWallet.
It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.
The Wi - Fi - equipped commuter shuttle buses offered up by tech giants such as Google, Yahoo, Apple and Facebook are now going to be taxed based on the number of stops they make in city bus zones.
Today, 15 leading transport and tech companies have pledged to abide by her 10 «shared mobility principles for livable cities» — including competitors Uber, Lyft, and Beijing - based Didi Chuxing.
The comment — posted with Merkley's name, city, and address — argued that «the FCC's Net Neutrality rules were written in the Obama White House by political staff and Tech Industry special interests who overruled the FCC's own experts.»
«In this tech - driven economy, it is natural to assume that our City by the Bay could be the epicenter of any «tech - wreck» that may occur due to an overvalued and underperforming industry,» the company wrote in its recent report.
As tech publication CNET notes, YouTube TV has distinguished itself from its TV - streaming rivals by offering local network TV affiliates of ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC in all of the regions it now serves (except Dallas), even though the service is not available in as many U.S. cities its rivals.
As a cofounder at New York - based General Assembly, Hargreaves noticed a growing housing crisis affecting the tech education provider's students, many of whom couldn't meet the rigorous rental requirements stipulated by landlords in New York City.
As one of the nation's fastest growing cities, Seattle's housing market is hot, driven in part by a booming tech scene.
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The tech industry also thrives by working in ways that can be incompatible with public - sector city building.
We do this by rallying the community together to discuss, discover and demo the latest in wearable tech at events in various cities and by sharing stories, ideas and information on our blog and social networks.
But don't take my word for it — Forbes» Christopher Steiner cited St. Louis as «The Right Way To Build a Tech City,» the city was ranked as the top startup city by Popular Mechanics in 2015, the fastest growing startup city by Business Insider and the «new startup frontier» by FiveThirtyEight in 2City,» the city was ranked as the top startup city by Popular Mechanics in 2015, the fastest growing startup city by Business Insider and the «new startup frontier» by FiveThirtyEight in 2city was ranked as the top startup city by Popular Mechanics in 2015, the fastest growing startup city by Business Insider and the «new startup frontier» by FiveThirtyEight in 2city by Popular Mechanics in 2015, the fastest growing startup city by Business Insider and the «new startup frontier» by FiveThirtyEight in 2city by Business Insider and the «new startup frontier» by FiveThirtyEight in 2016.
What makes Amazon's project unusual is its location — in the heart of a city, rather than on a sprawling suburban campus of the sort favored by most other big tech companies.
Primary is an early - stage venture capital firm based in New York City, run by Ben Sun and Brad Svrluga, who combined have a 30 - year track record as investors and operators in the NYC Tech scene.
Venture funding for tech companies in New York City increased by 240 % from 2003 to 2013, and more than 85 % of the sector's current companies and 86 % of its current jobs were created during this time.
Atlanta Driven in large part by a surge in financial tech, education tech and health tech startups, Atlanta clinched the «most improved» city designation on this year's ITM report, rocketing up more than 15 places since last year's analysis.
In San Francisco rising property prices have been blamed on the inflated salaries in the tech sector, and led to company buses carrying employees from the city to the sprawling tech campuses in the Valley being stoned by protesters — what one tech executive described to me as «the Google bus piñata».
The report — «The New York City Tech Ecosystem,» by HR&A Advisors — notes that roughly half the tech jobs are at employers with a main focus that is not technology, such as finance and media companies, or hospitals and government agencTech Ecosystem,» by HR&A Advisors — notes that roughly half the tech jobs are at employers with a main focus that is not technology, such as finance and media companies, or hospitals and government agenctech jobs are at employers with a main focus that is not technology, such as finance and media companies, or hospitals and government agencies.
The move marks yet another notable effort taken by the Singapore government to promote the application of blockchain tech as part of its wider push for the city - state's fintech development.
Well, other than the real Manhattan where Fortune 500 and the world elites must have a presence there for whatever reason, most likely egoistic, or perhaps hangout of the world biggest tech lunatics such as the case of Silicon Valley, most cities in the states are actually ghettos — Detroit is one and Canadians have been buying up their rundown houses as if they're free (almost, going by Canadian standard) just when Americans are avoiding them like the plague.
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That record was then dwarfed Thursday when shares reached a new all - time high at $ 385, undoubtedly spurred by the EV company confirming it is in fact in talks with the Shanghai municipal government to build a Gigafactory and manufacture cars in the city's tech sector.
During the past year Louisville's news has been dominated by several seemingly disparate issues — the troubled relationship between the police department and the African - American community; efforts to build more mixed - income housing in the city; adoption of a regional plan intended to moderate suburban sprawl; disagreement about the number and location of proposed new Ohio River bridges linking Louisville and southern Indiana; a campaign to attract high - tech business to the downtown area; and a lively election campaign around the issue of a city - county merger.
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Kansas has home losses to Arizona State, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma State, a loss to Washington in Kansas City, and just got walloped on the road by a Baylor team that was 4 - 7 in the Big 12 entering the day.
Now, her plan for the city creates decent - paying jobs by supporting small business and tech companies in neighborhoods that are often ignored; expands pre-K and child care; and builds 80,000 units of good middle class housing.
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson began his first round of Council staffer firings last Friday, gutting the public tech division — a unit created under the previous speaker and the only unit in the Council to be headed by a Latina woman.
But while the chamber has closed, Kathryn Wylde, president of the Partnership of New York City, said the Israeli tech community is well - represented in New York City by the country's consul general and the Technion Institute, which has partnered with Cornell University to build a new graduate engineering school on Roosevelt Island.
The proof of our success is in the reports issued by the New York State Department of Labor: the unemployment rate is the lowest in more than nine years; and we are putting in place the pieces necessary for our workforce to succeed in the high - tech and green jobs that will be coming online at Solar City and the Medical Campus.
At 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Crain's New York Business will host an event on how startup businesses take off in New York City, featuring: Gregg Bishop, Commissioner, NYC Department of Small Business Services; Howard Lerman, Co-Founder & CEO, Yext; Rachel Shechtman,, Founder and CEO, STORY; Adam Shwartz, Director, Jacobs Technion - Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech; and moderated by Matthew Flamm, Senior Reporter, Crain's New York Business.
Cornell University has hired its first professor for its new technology campus in New York City, bringing with her accolades as one of the 10 most powerful women in tech as ranked by CNN.
Over half of Airbnb users in New York City might be breaking the state law banning short term apartment rentals, but very few are big - time illegal hotel operators, according to data released by the tech company today.
On another note, in spite of her support of tech and innovation for the city's youth, and endorsements this week by three major New York City newspapers, a group of online activists are using tech tools for an anti-Quinn campacity's youth, and endorsements this week by three major New York City newspapers, a group of online activists are using tech tools for an anti-Quinn campaCity newspapers, a group of online activists are using tech tools for an anti-Quinn campaign.