Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading, dies at 86
Jim Simons just died. Simons was an award-winning mathematician … Thomas Sumner / Simons Foundation : Remembering the Life and Careers of Jim Simons Jonathan Kandell / New York Times : Jim Simons, Ma...
New York has developed into a bona fide tech hub, an East Coast rival to Silicon Valley that has become a second home to tech giants, which have 22K staff there
The four companies known as Big Tech — Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google — now have more than 22,000 employees in the city, with thousands added just this year. Tweets: @sallygold , @sally_hubbard , ...
Microsoft Teams vs. Slack: Teams is a part of Microsoft's vision to build an OS for the cloud whereas Slack is building an enterprise social network via Connect
On November 2, 2016, Microsoft announced Teams at a special event in New York City. Slack decided to mark the occasion: Tweets: @ldignan , @glennsolomon , @npshah , @mdudas , and @scottehartley Tweet...
A reporter describes his and others' experiences delivering food on bikes for apps like Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Postmates in New York City
with a camera on his chest. This is what he saw. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Despite Amazon's NYC HQ2 retreat, tech giants like Google, Facebook, and even Amazon still seek to rent millions of square feet and employ thousands in New York
Facebook, Google, Uber and Amazon embrace Manhattan as an East Coast hub — Big technology companies are doubling … Tweets: @mkink , @rakeshlobster , @profgalloway , @aoc , @lawrence , @gardmaf , @te...
Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry
We have graduated, along with oil, real estate, insurance, and finance, to the big T. Trillions of dollars. Trillions! Get to that number any way you like: Sum up the market cap of the major tech co...
How New York City evolved into a tech hub over the last two decades, fueled by Google's DoubleClick acquisition and the Bloomberg administration's policies
Euan Robertson started his job with New York City's economic development team at an ominous moment.
After Amazon misread New York's politics, pulling out was a typical Bezos power play of belligerently confronting opposition he views as unfair or unjust
And Everyone Lost Paige Leskin / Business Insider : Amazon was having official talks with city officials just the day before it canceled the New York HQ2 Chris Nuttall / Financial Times : Amazon and N...
Amazon dropping its NYC HQ plans was a win for activists, but some local tech leaders believe it sends a poor message to other companies wanting to invest in NY
“A self-own by the entire NYC ecosystem” — Amazon's decision to drop plans for a New York City headquarters was so abrupt …
Amazon says it has canceled plans to build HQ2 in New York City, focusing instead on Northern Virginia and Nashville, following backlash
Amazon on Thursday canceled its plans to build an expansive corporate campus in New York City after facing an unexpectedly fierce backlash from lawmakers …