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How to Get Low-Cost Legal Services
By Colleen Debaise, Entrepreneur.com, May 14th, 2012
Getting a startup off the ground is just the beginning. Growing a business is the next step. In this Project Grow series, we talk to entrepreneurs at New York's Varick Street incubator as they meet the challenges. When he was starting up CreativeWorx, serial entrepreneur Mark Hirsch says he was...
New York City to Explore Electricity from Water Mains
By Bill Sweet, IEEE Spectrum, May 13th, 2012
It sounds so sensible, you have to wonder why everybody isn't already doing it: Tap the excess pressure found in many urban water mains to drive small turbines that could feed electricity into the grid, block-by-block. Often such pressure has to be relieved by means of specially installed...
Programming Proteins With New Building Blocks
By Jin Montclare, theepochtimes.com, May 8th, 2012
Proteins are essential components that allow us to exist. If you look down at your hands, the surface or skin is composed of various proteins. And if you were able to look through your skin, you would see a myriad of proteins working to sustain you. Now consider a situation in which, deep inside...
How to Deal With Copycats
By Colleen DeBaise, entrepreneur.com, May 7th, 2012
Getting a startup off the ground is just the beginning. Growing a business is the next step. In this Project Grow series, we talk to entrepreneurs at New York's Varick Street incubator as they meet the challenges. If you're first to market with a successful product, it's not unusual for...
Dr. Marty Becker’s Cat Fancy and Following A Robot Fish
By Maurizio Porfiri, wamuanimalhouse.org, May 5th, 2012
You don’t get to be known as “America’s Vet” unless you’ve experienced all types of animals. The owner of that moniker, Dr. Marty Becker, certainly fits the billing. These days, Dr. Becker’s focus is on cats, and he gives us a few pearls of wisdom on the subject...
View From The Field: New York City Accelerator for a Clean and Renewable Economy
By Chris Shreve, www.stateenergyreport.com/, May 3rd, 2012
In a bright, high-ceilinged loft in lower Manhattan lives the New York City Accelerator for a Clean and Renewable Economy (NYC ACRE), an incubator for clean technology and renewable energy start-ups. The director of NYC ACRE, Micah Kotch, fits the part: busy but casual, and full of talking points...
Skype Knew of Security Flaw Since November 2010, Researchers say - Wall Street Journal
By Joel Schectman, Wall Street Journal, May 1st, 2012
Skype was told a year and a half ago about a security flaw that allows for the location tracking of customers, but left it unfixed, the security researchers who first discovered the vulnerability told CIO Journal. The flaw, which allows hackers to secretly track IP addresses, should be of interest...
Pied Piper Of Fish
www.sciencefriday.org, April 27th, 2012
Maurizio Porfiri wants to build robots that can herd fish like sheepdogs. Sound fishy? He's farther along than you might expect. A few years ago, Porfiri, a mechanical engineer at the Polytechnic Institute of New YorkUniversity, discovered real fish would mill about and follow his...
Urban Science Centre Born in Big Apple
By Amy Maxmen, Nature News Blog, April 25th, 2012
What better birthplace for an institute of urban science than a soot-stained edifice in downtown Brooklyn? New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced yesterday that the mainly vacant building will house a world-class research institute, to be led by theoretical physicist Steven Koonin, former...
It's Your Money: Internet Start-Ups In NYC
By Shelley Ng, wpix.com, April 11th, 2012
It's Silicon Alley versus Silicon Vlley. New York City is becoming the hub for internet start-ups. There are more than 120,000 tech employees throughout the city and we talked to several internet entrepreneurs who are taking advantage of the city's programs to help support internet start up...
