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By Steve Huff 1/15/12 11:18pm

Zappos Hacked! Millions of Accounts Potentially Compromised

According to an entry posted on the company blog on Sunday, online shoe and clothing giant Zappos has suffered a massive security breach compromising some data on as many as 24 million customer accounts. In an email to employees, CEO Tony Hsieh said the company was attacked by “a criminal who gained access to parts of our internal network and systems through one of our servers in Kentucky.” Hsieh also said the company was cooperating with authorities in an “exhaustive investigation.” Read More

By admin 12/22/10 3:31pm

Tech Style

Fashion Gets An Analytics Dashboard

The fashion industry revolves around rapidly changing trends, with market leaders emerging from the pack thanks to their ineffable sense of style.

Now Polyvore, a site where users can clip items from anywhere on the web and mix and match them to create “look books,” is trying to bring some data-driven web analytics to this Read More

By admin 12/08/10 7:40pm

Hardware Heaven

Hunch Crunches Taste With Super Powered Server

Hunch is a NY startup building a taste graph that will allow them to offer precise, intimate recommendations to users almost instantly.

When users first go to Hunch they answer a series of questions. At the end, the site delivers recomendations to them about everything from poetry to food to clothing.

To do this, Hunch Read More

By admin 12/06/10 4:43pm

Metro Tech

Google Buying New York’s Premier ‘CoHo’ at 111 Eighth Avenue

In the parlance of the data-center crowd, 111 Eighth Avenue is New York’s premier “CoHo”, or “Carrier Hotel”.

The building’s enormous size and position directly over an important fiber optic line make it one of the “world’s choicest pieces of Internet real estate.”

Wall Street caught on to this early, moving electronic trading Read More

By admin 10/28/10 3:01pm

Data Deluge

Here Are the 10 Shops Where New Yorkers Drop the Most Cash

Everyone knows that New York is full of luxury stores where the rich and fabulous can go to shell out big bucks.

But now Mint.com has released a breakdown of exactly which shops are raking in the most dough per visit.

The data is based on activity from Mint’s more than 4 million users, and Read More

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Zappos Hacked! Millions of Accounts Potentially Compromised

Fashion Gets An Analytics Dashboard

Hunch Crunches Taste With Super Powered Server

Google Buying New York’s Premier ‘CoHo’ at 111 Eighth Avenue

Here Are the 10 Shops Where New Yorkers Drop the Most Cash

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