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By Lauren Keyson and Altynay Demeubayeva OnMedia NYC 2014 had the tag line is “Where Silicon Valley Meets Madison Avenue.” It held its annual summit last week at NASDAQ’s new round glass building in Times Square. This annual summit gathers the intellect and top entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate players in social media, advertising, and commerce. Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn started off the event with opening remarks and ended the event as host of the s

By Lauren Keyson and Altynay Demeubayeva Tapactive is a personal training service that offers unlimited training at home, office or in a park for one monthly fee. To schedule a workout, a user taps on yoga, Pilates, boxing or other fitness types on their mobile. CEO Robert Victor, with a Google background, wanted to do boxing and his business partner David Oved, coming from Equinox, wanted to do yoga. They started looking for trainers for themselves they had to find trainer

By Lauren Keyson NY Tech Meetup, a nonprofit organization that builds programs and partnerships to support the growth and diversification of the city’s technology industry, started in 2004 with just four people sitting around a desk. By the summer of 2014, the organization evolved into one of the largest Meetup groups in the world. Now with 40,000 members, it represents professionals from all parts of the New York technology community. Co-founder Dawn Barber initially liked

By Lauren Keyson 500 Startups held their annual Demo Day in NYC to show off some of their newest and brightest companies. 500 runs a prolific early-stage venture fund; a large, global accelerator program for tech startups. It also runs a series of tech conferences and events such as “HYPERLINK "http://geeksonaplane.com/"Geeks on a Plane”, an invite-only tour for startups, investors, and executives to learn about high-growth technology markets worldwide. They travel by planes

By Altynay Demeubayeva Anyone who works in the aerospace field or is very passionate about space policy will be interested in the annual Space Generation Congress event in Toronto in conjunction with the International Astronautical Congress (IAC). Andrea Jaime, the Executive Director of Space Generation Advisory Council (the organization in support of the United Nations on space applications) shared the details with us. Altynay Demeubayeva: What is the aim of the SGC? Andre

By Lauren Keyson and Dana Stevens Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures answered questions in front of a large audience of student developers, organizers and founders, as well as Bitcoin entrepreneurs and investors, about how this new currency can change the world. The presentation took place in NYU’s Eisner & Lubin auditorium in Washington Square. Students were given free tickets, and all proceeds were donated to the NYC Public School Computer Science Department. After his

By Lauren Keyson and Dana Stevens Fereshteh Forough is a true Bitcoin believer who uses the alternative currency in her organization Women’s Annex Foundation. We caught up with her while she attended a seminar given by Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson on the rise and the success of Bitcoin. Held at NYU’s Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, all proceeds were donated to the NYC Public School Computer Science Department. Lauren Keyson: Describe The Women’s Annex Foundation Fereshteh

By Altynay Demeubayeva Yaroslav Tenzer is a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard Biorobotics Laboratory . His research focuses on the role of sensing and mechanical design in motor control, in both robots and humans. He shared with us that new electric cars are not only environmentally friendly but also can change in size. Altynay Demeubayeva: Tell me more about the City Transformer. So City Transformer is a car with aim to transfer the way we drive and park in the c

strong>By Lauren Keyson NYC’s Team, Fishing Enforcement & Monitoring Operations (FEMO), was the winner of this week’s Fishackathon , the socially responsible hack and conference event that took place over the weekend and through the week at WeWorks in lower Manhattan. The NYC team was awarded $5000 in cash by Cast Software for an application that helps with the significant challenges facing the ocean from lack of awareness or just a lack of will. These include the continu

Internet of Things At AT&T AdWorks Lab 810 7th Ave, New York, NY August 25th (map) The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to uniquely identifiable objects and their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure. When trillions of things can be connected, which things should you connect? The Internet of Things is the subject of hype, and of vast projections: According to McKinsey Global Institute, the Internet of Things has the potential to create an economic impact o

by Zak Niazi and Lauren Keyson Brandon Diamond loves startups, community, and code. He is the Director & Co-Founder, HuffPost Labs , the Director & Founder of Hacker Union, and a Director for NY Tech Meetup . We caught up with him at the last NY Tech Meetup. He tells us what’s up with hackers and how he feels about having a startup. Lauren Keyson: Tell me what you’re doing. I guess after trying to do the startup thing, which is where we last left off, I went to 10Gen, which

by Lauren Keyson and Zak Niazi Inaki Berenguer is the founder and CEO of Pixable , a mobile photo discovery act. At the January NY Tech Meetup, his team launched their new app called Photofeed , a mobile application to back up photos across devices. Once Photofeed is installed on a laptop or other device, it will automatically back up all the photos into a single photo feed in a single timeline, eliminating the duplicates across devices and across photos. Everything is then

By Derek Webster Disruptive Technologist™ D. Bernard Webster is the founder of Vanguarde Consulting Group , an entrepreneurial content provider for small business development and innovation. He believes that scaling a company quickly requires properly capitalizing the company at the beginning to ensure long-term sustainability. A 2013 Entrepreneur/Venture-in-Residence at the New York Institute of Technology , Webster shared the story of his first business launch into the the

By Roger Maloney Digitas NewFront Event for Creators I received the opportunity to attend the Digitas NewFront event where various new and traditional companies received the opportunity to showcase their company's online video content to various brands. Today the competition for eyeballs is in full swing because every technology company from, Facebook, Apple, Goggle, Amazon, Netflix has become a content creator because the social media/tech companies understand that they are

David Manzano "The Bronx Singer" has been disrupting Manhattan’s underground sharing his love and hate for the world he lives in through his Soul/Acoustic/Rock. After being in a few bands, a couple of projects, and doing dozens of auditions, Student/Singer/Songwriter “ The Bronx Singer " now rides the rails of New York City spreading his influence upon its people. With no "traditional" musical training David has been captivating people with his melodic rhythms, textured lyri

by Lauren Leyson When Jennifer Shaw went to her first NY Tech Meetup , a 25,000 member non-profit organization that supports the growing New York technology community, she felt displaced. While several thousand of the members, the managing director Jessica Lawrence and the NYTM’s co-founder Dawn Barber are all women, she felt that she wanted to know people at the event before she got there, and she felt like some other women might feel the same way. “I think that every ent

Avi Muchnick is the co-founder and CEO and Israel Derdik is the co-founder and CTO Israel: Aviary is a photo editor that can be embedded inside other developers’ applications – so if you have an android app or a website, you can embed our code inside your own site and have photos that get uploaded or accessed-- and you can apply filters, crop, and things like that. Avi: Way back in 2002, I ran a website called Worth1000.com – a site where artists would come and compete and m