In 2002 the BBC introduced 1Xtra, a digital urban-music station that bore a suspicious similarity to Xfm, a commercial outfit.

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Claim to fame: Driven by their mission to create a universal digital language for urban living centered around the areas of transportation, navigation and entertainment, founders of MCW participated in Big Apple Apps contest hosted by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City of New York and won in three different categories.

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The designation supports developing creative industries, broadening access to culture, raising urban living standards and increasing public participation in civil society, through the growth of digital and electronic technologies.

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Just as urban planner Robert Moses shaped the way many modern cities are structured, Jobs set the standard for how digital music is bought, consumed, and (sometimes) created.

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Merchant and Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot announced the winning prototypes from the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge, a competition that engaged hundreds of urban designers, planners, technologists and policy experts to create physical and virtual prototypes that imagine the future of the City's approximately 11, 000 public pay telephones.

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