By Elise Knutsen 5/23/12 8:45am

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Facebook is People!: Why I Quit Mark Zuckerberg’s Online Collective Data Farm

Last Friday, as his brainchild company went public, Mark Zuckerberg’s face filled the multistory video screen adorning the Times Square Reuters building, his image a grinning, pasty vision of triumph—little brother as Big Brother.

In the 30 seconds after the bell rang at the NASDAQ exchange, more than 80 million shares were traded, and with the IPO (really the night before, when the underwriting banks bought the stock from Facebook), Mr. Zuckerberg made $25 B.

But he wasn’t making any money off me. Read More

By Drew Grant 4/27/12 12:55pm

White House Correspondents' Dinner

An easy way to understand D.C.'s annual night of laffs (JESS3)

Google Breaks Down the White House Correspondents’ Dinner With Fun Infographic!

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner this weekend has D.C. is gearing up for its annual influx of celebrities, media outlets, party crashers, very etc.

The Academy Awards of politics, but without any actual awards being given (and usually with funnier hosts) has become one of the most tuned-into D.C. events of the year. But how many people outside the media itself actually care about the correspondent’s dinner?

For those answers we turn to JESS3, a creative agency that recently teamed up with Google to help people visualize political data through New York Magazine-style infographics.
Check out the full image after the jump! Read More

By Steve Huff 2/01/12 11:41pm

Gay Marriage

Not actually gay, but surely happy for them

Washington State Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill

Gays in the rainy Northwest have reason to celebrate tonight: the Washington State Senate voted 28-21 in favor of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage there.

The poetically-named SB 6239, which was supported by major corporations with Washington interests such as Starbucks and Google, will now go to the House, where it also likely to pass. Washington Governor Chris Gregoire has indicated in several public statements that she will sign the bill once it lands on her desk. Read More

By Daniel Edward Rosen 10/25/11 9:34am

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Google, the store, not the search engine.

Google, Amazon to Set Up Brick-and-Mortar Shops in Times Square, One Broker Predicts

Soon Times Square may be known for its iconic signage, its assortment of apparel shops like Forever 21 and American Eagle Outfitters, and, erm, Google?!

The vaunted tourist trap may be the perfect location for the web giant to test out a “brick and mortar” entity, said David LaPierre, executive vice president of CB Richard Ellis,.

“Theoretically at some point I envision brands like Google or like Amazon… finding a way to manage and spread, I think, their customer base beyond just the internet,” said Mr. LaPierre during CBRE’s third-quarter Manhattan retail media breakfast Monday.

“Time Square is a classic, great place to make that be your flagship.” Read More

By Guelda Voien 10/19/11 9:43am

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Move over Silicon Alley, here comes "App.Town."

Pawn Stars Producer Moves Farther West

Leftfield Pictures of New York will relocate to 24,000 square feet on West 34th Street, in “app.town,” as Coldwell Banker Commercial Hunter Realty has dubbed the neighborhood now teeming with technology firms.

The producers of such television shows as Bridal Bootcamp, Pawn Stars and What Not to Read More

By The Editors 9/28/11 11:31am

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New York Comes Full Circle

Big things are happening in post-Fashion Week NYC. For the first time since the late 80s, all the hot young things are flooding to Wall Street. But unfortunately for Turnbull & Asser and half of the meatpacking district’s nightlife establishment, these kids aren’t spending all-nighters snorting drugs and waiting for the markets to open to Japan. They’re occupying Wall Street. And by occupying, we mean camping out in a semi-organized fashion in the Financial District, despite the fact that the financial district is no longer in the Financial District. And we have to admit, midtown just doesn’t have the same symbolic appeal. Read More

By Emily Witt 9/08/11 12:41pm

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Google Buys Zagat

The “behemoth” public corporation with its “quirky, do-no-evil” corporate philosophy has bought “granny’s favorite restaurant guide” Zagat, “the company that invented User Generated Content before their was a management consultancy name for it.” Read More