the alley

Why Silicon Alley's Spat With the City Is Actually Good News

In recent months, New York’s City’s Economic Development Corporation has become increasingly involved in the booming New York tech scene.

The city greatly expanded its second annual Big Apps competition, Deputy Mayor Robert K. Steele stopped by Google’s offices to announce that the city is wooing a top-flight engineering school, and the EDC even hosted Read More

Iranian Ex-Pat: Michael Jackson Disrupts the Online Revolution

A few weeks ago, the Iranian “online revolution” seemed to be doing well. Since the presidential election on June 12, bloggers were culling together Twitter updates, Flickr photos and reports from Iranians on the ground at protests ripping across the country. CNN aired YouTube videos of the violence and Time magazine wrote about an Read More