* Making New York City a high-tech center isn’t only about developing Internet and media startups in Manhattan’s so-called Silicon Alley – it’s also about connecting less technologically savvy businesses to the Internet. Google is taking up that effort across the city all next week as part of the company’s America Get Your Business Online initiative, which helps mostly small businesses launch and maintain a web site. Susan Molinari, the former Staten Island congresswoman who took a job as the… [More]

TOP ISSUES TALENT Finding enough good engineers and developers is the single biggest challenge for New York City technology firms. Bringing more young tech standouts to New York, where they can feed that talent engine, is a key purpose of the city’s plan for an applied-sciences campus in conjunction with a major university. In cantrast with what happened in the city’s first tech boom, many of the open positions now require advanced programming, math and science skills. SPACE Technology companies… [More]

SETH PINSKY President and CEO, New York City Economic Development Corporation Q: Is technology really going to be a big part of the city’s economy going forward, or is it a fad? SP: The mayor’s view, which I think is spot-on, is that there should be no one industry upon which New York entirely relies. And that’s the case whether it be technology or financial services or any of the other sectors in which New York is strong. And the… [More]

A maturing tech industry becomes a pillar of New York City’s economy When New York’s first technology boom exploded, it took down an industry—but not much else. The city’s “Silicon Alley” of downtown Internet developers, puffed up in an atmosphere where putting up a website or tacking “.com” on a company name qualified as a business model, deflated along with the rest of the high-tech bubble in 2000, leaving nothing but empty offices in its wake. Yet after a decade… [More]