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Seamless Data Shows City’s Restaurants Slowly Coming Back Online
CEO Jonathan Zabusky. (Photo: Seamless) This week, just when you most wished for the familiar comfort of Seamless order delivered to your door, loss of power and Internet, lack of availability or guilt...
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Time Warner Cable Sends 10 Mobile Charging Trucks with Free Wifi to Downtown...
Time Warner Cable is sending 10 mobile charging stations equipped with WiFi into areas of New York that still don't have power. The local Time Warner Twitter account, @TWCABLE_NYC, will update users...
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Techie Do-Gooders: How NYC Startups are Helping the Sandy Relief Effort
Foursquare's temporary HQ. (Photo: Twitter) Given recent events, Betabeat decided to forego our Rumor Roundup this week for a roundup of all the things startups are doing to help get New York back to...
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Why I Chose to Build My Enterprise Startup in New York City
Mr. Politis This is a guest post from David Politis, the founder and CEO of BetterCloud, the makers of FlashPanel, an admin tool for Google Apps that has acquired 10,000 customers and 3 million users...
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Here’s How Not to Reference Sandy in Your Lifestyle Newsletter
(Screencap: Thrillist) Last week, startups across New York City galvanized to help support the victims of Hurricane Sandy, establishing coworking spaces, volunteer groups and easy ways for users to...
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Why Did SquareSpace’s CEO Haul Diesel Up 17 Flights of Stairs? Anything Less...
One of the Fog Creek volunteers, buckets in hand. (Photo: Squarespace) When Hurricane Sandy smashed into lower Manhattan last week, customers of the data center Peer1 faced the prospect of major...
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Via Airbnb, You Can Now Host New Yorkers Displaced by Sandy
(Screencap) Hurricane Sandy drove many New Yorkers out of their homes and, given the impending Nor'easter, at the worst possible time. Something like 20,000 to 40,000 people need somewhere to stay....
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Verizon Waives Two Weeks of Voice and Text Charges for Sandy Victims
(Photo: Twitter/swissmiss) Anyone in the New York/New Jersey region knows how hard it was to make a call or send a text message in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy's devastation. Simply dialing up your...
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Booting Up: 3D Printed Guns Are Coming Edition
(Photo: Instagram, @pinkla16) Thanksgiving beat out Hurricane Sandy as the most-Instagrammed event ever, solidifying the photo platform as more of a Path-type social network than the future of citizen...
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Google Angers Staten Island Residents After It Dispatches Street View Cars to...
(Photo: Automotive.com) Google may want to lower the bar from "don't be evil" to "don't be thoughtless" after it dispatched Street View cars to a Staten Island neighborhood devastated by Superstorm...
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