Bloomberg is a sprawling, billion-dollar enterprise, which creates a distinct problem if you're trying to explain what the company actually does. They do lots of things, ranging from law research to sports research for team managers ...READ»
Bloomberg is a sprawling, multi billion-dollar enterprise, which creates a distinct problem if you're trying to explain what the company actually does. They do lots of things, ranging from law research to sports research for team ...READ»
NYC's chief digital officer Rachel Sterne is trying to make the Big Apple run more like Apple. And she's adding metrics-based solutions to hold her digital initiatives accountable.READ»
Manhattan being the center of the universe and all it was probably inevitable that someone would come along and do to it what sculptors have done to gods and saints and kings and queens since Greco-Roman days: render the place in a ...READ»
New York City is getting ready to launch a novel, if vaguely horrifying, anti-speeding measure. It’ll take the electronic signs that the Department of Transportation uses to announce traffic and weather conditions, and program them ...READ»
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg unveiled a system of QR tags today meant to give citizens quicker access to information about new construction projects. The QR codes will be posted on every construction permit city-wide; by ...READ»
One of the silliest ideas I've heard in this very silly political season is the just-floated trial balloon of an independent 2012 presidential ticket featuring New York City Mayor (and mega-billionaire) Michael Bloomberg and talk-show ...READ»
"New York? The whole damn place has been turned into a suburb," sneered David Harvey, startling a roomful of New Yorkers who prided themselves on the same things he derided: the makeover of the city's parks; the new network of bike ...READ»
Admiral Mike Mullen says the sea was his business. Now, as America's top military officer, he's reshaping strategy for a world in which economics and security are intertwined.READ»
The city is offering $20,000 to whomever designs a web or mobile app that best uses any of 170 public data sets--from health inspections to traffic updates.READ»
New York's new program for encouraging better public architecture has just born fruit, in a new community center designed by George Ranalli. As the Wall Street Journal's Ada Louise Huxtable writes:
...the Saratoga Avenue ...READ»
