Alla inlägg den 8 april 2011
ups that raise money for city parks, depends on annual donations from neighboring buildings and their residents. But should those who live on Park Avenue, Central Park or Prospect Park, or along the High Line, be required to pay for them as if they were an amenity? Some groups, including the Prospect Park Alliance, have tried to persuade nearby buildings to formalize donations, perhaps through required payments included in common charges or association fees, usually to no avail. Others, like Friends of the High Line and Friends of Hudson River Park, have explored or are testing the waters with special tax districts around the parks, making the argument that these residents enjoy higher property values. But these can be prickly proposals, with New York City’s real estate taxes already a sore point. Now, though, some new developments are requiring park contributions as part of the package for apartments on sale.
On Thursday, nearly a dozen technology start-ups present their new or improved company at an event called TechStars Demo Day will gather at Webster Hall in New York. Each one gets eight minutes on stage to convince investors sitting in the audience–the sponsors say they are expecting several hundred investors –to finance the company. The start-ups presenting at the event have all been involved in a 13-week program hosted by TechStars, a technology start-up incubator that pulls in successful technologists to help mentor new companies. Twice a year, TechStars, which originally began in Boulder, Colo., invites start-ups to apply for the company’s program. If they are accepted, the start-ups are offered $18,000 in financing and access to more than 100 high-level mentors who have past experience working with major technology companies. In exchange, TechStars receives a 6 percent stake in each company.
Apple continued to scramble over the weekend to limit the damage caused by MobileMe, the company’s first step into cloud computing, by posting on Friday an additional longer, four-paragraph apology, and acknowledging that the new service was still not problem-free. Intended to supplant the company’s aging .Mac Web service, MobileMe is meant to make Apple a player in the online portal world now dominated by Yahoo, Microsoft and Google. So far it has served only to tarnish Apple’s reputation for producing solid, pain-free, software.
Verve Wireless’s mission is to save the local paper by making it mobile. It provides publishers with the technology to create mobile Web sites, so readers can read the paper on their cell phones. Verve or the newspaper then sell ads on those sites. Verve already powers mobile versions of 4,000 newspapers from 140 publishers, including The Associated Press, McClatchy, and the New York Times Regional Media Group. The A.P started using its Verve-powered Mobile News Network in May. It apparently liked it enough to invest in the company. Verve Wireless has raised $3 million in its second round of fund-raising, led by its biggest customer, The Associated Press. Iron Capital and Crosscut Ventures also participated in the round.
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