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Mayor, New York City

Although not a native New Yorker (he was born in Boston, in fact), Bloomberg has shown his love for the city as only a transplant can. As its 108th mayor, over the last decade he has brought down all those things that should be brought down (crime, teen smoking, ambulance response times) and increased those things that should be increased (graduation rates, parkland, jobs). Before he was mayor, Bloomberg founded Bloomberg LP, a global media company with more than 300,000 subscribers to its financial news and information service.

Posts With Michael Bloomberg

More D10 Speakers: Ellison, Meeker, Myhrvold, Along With Pixar and Visa!

in D10 on April 9 at 2:49 pm PT

Speakers? We got your D10 speakers.
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Here Come the First D10 Speakers: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Entrepreneur Sean Parker, Zynga’s Mark Pincus and More on the Red Hot Seat

in D10 on March 9 at 10:40 am PT

Speakers? We got your speakers right here.
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Yes, That Is a Cat on the Head of a Soon-to-Be Public Company CEO. (And, of Course, It’s Groupon’s Andrew Mason.)

in Commerce on July 5, 2011 at 4:11 pm PT

Do you think Zynga’s Mark Pincus would put a cat on his head for a national magazine shoot? Or LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner? Or, perish the thought, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook? But the wacky stylings of Groupon CEO and co-founder Andrew Mason seem to demand it.

IBM Brings the Cloud to New York City

in Enterprise on January 31, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

Big Blue will consolidate the data center operations of 14 agencies in the first phase of a plan the city hopes will save $100 million over five years.

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Schools Chancellor Klein to Join News Corp.

in News on November 9, 2010 at 3:23 pm PT

New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein is resigning to join News Corp., ending an eight-year reign at the helm of the nation’s largest school system. In his place, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to announce Cathie Black, chairwoman of Hearst Magazines.

BoomTown as Judge Judy, Um, Judge BigApps

in News on October 13, 2010 at 2:37 am PT

With All Things Digital Global HQ located in the heart of the Castro in San Francisco, BoomTown tries hard not to judge–even that dude who likes to come into the Starbucks naked. But I made an exception to be a judge for an innovative civic geek contest that New York City is doing for the second year called BigApps 2.0, opening up a whole mess of government information and letting software developers have at it. And how much do you want to bet there will be a bed-bug app submitted this year?

Online Privacy Follies Hit Home: BoomTown Was One of Those Exposed in the AT&T iPad Snafu

in News on June 11, 2010 at 12:15 am PT

Yesterday, it was revealed that AT&T–which usually and deservedly catches flak for its appalling dropping of voice calls–got caught up in a thorny security debacle related to the Apple iPad. The telecom giant had a flaw that allowed a group of computer experts to expose the email addresses and identity numbers of 114,000 owners of the popular tablet device. Including mine.

AT&T Breach Exposes iPad Owners’ Email Addresses

in News on June 9, 2010 at 3:05 pm PT

Well, this doesn’t bode well for Apple-AT&T relations. A security breach at AT&T has exposed the email addresses of more than 100,000 iPad owners–among them a who’s-who of the media and political elite.

Want to Fix New York? There May Be an App for That.

in Media on December 15, 2009 at 1:20 pm PT

What if you could use an app to do something other than entertain yourself for a few minutes? Here are 85 apps that want to make Manhattan (and the rest of New York) better for residents and visitors.
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Media Mogul Steve Rattner Goes to Washington, Where He Won’t Be Car Czar

in Media on February 24, 2009 at 3:50 am PT

Steve Rattner, once one of the most prominent bankers in the media business, is going to Washington after all. Except that the Quandrangle Group founder won’t be getting the “Car Czar” job he was originally supposed to take in the Obama administration, since that job never got created. He’ll be an adviser, instead. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama has formally appointed his New Media team.
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