Bloomberg announces 20 NYC schools for Software Engineering Pilot program

In his ongoing effort to make New York City a technological powerhouse, Mayor Michael Bloomberg today revealed the 20 middle and high schools selected for the city's new Software Engineering Pilot (SEP) program.

Mayor Bloomberg calls upon techies to reinvent New York City’s payphones

With more than 11,000 payphones that need to be replaced by October 2014, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is asking the local tech community to come up with radical new payphone ideas.

Mayor Bloomberg chats about NYC’s tech initiatives at Boxee HQ

Aiming to remind New Yorkers just how receptive the city is for startups, Mayor Michael Bloomberg stopped by Boxee's headquarters today to discuss a variety of technology initiatives happening here.

Microsoft and NYPD partner for crime awareness system — would make Jack Bauer proud

If you've ever had a dystopian nightmare starring Microsoft, it likely began with something like this: the software giant is teaming up with the NYPD for a high-tech crime prevention and counterterrorism platform called the Domain Awareness System.

Digital news pioneer Michael Bloomberg reads 8 newspapers a day

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who made billions of dollars as the founder of the disruptive digital news and data service that bears his name, prefers to get his news the old-fashioned way: On dead trees.

Bloomberg reads no less …

Made In New York: Mayor Bloomberg shows off NYC’s vibrant tech scene with an online map

If there’s a significant week-long event occurring in New York City, you can bet that Mayor Michael Bloomberg will make a showing at some point. So it was no surprise when I got a call last night about a mysterious …

Cornell wins its bid to build a Stanford of the East Coast

Cornell University is erecting a massive, important new science and engineering campus on New York’s Roosevelt Island, just half a bridge away from Manhattan in the middle of the East River.

The two million-square-foot campus will cost $2 billion to …