And so what if New York's tech scene is still a third the size of California's?
I've also worked in non-profit and government, floated around the tech scene and now advise startups.
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The same could not be said about another darling of the UK Tech scene, Dopplr.
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Of course, everything one can say about New York's tech scene is doubly true for Silicon Valley.
In a way, it brought together avatars of the new tech scene with icons of established fashion power.
In order to compile a list of said ideas, we tapped some the tech scene's finest for their input.
There is also a longtime overlap between the tech scene and food trends.
Being an entrepreneur who co-founded RockThePost, the crowdfunding platform for small businesses and entrepreneurs, I am deeply embedded in the tech scene.
His ambitions, moreover, extend far beyond just creating a tech scene.
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Since then, the increased bandwidth has given a boost to mobile services, the burgeoning tech scene of home-grown developers, programmers and designers, whilst it has also attracted big business.
The UK tech scene is ironing out a few kinks and gearing itself up to create a scene that will allow ideas to morph more quickly into ramped up companies.
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In recent years, a rise in the usage of mobile phones coupled with the emergence of a thriving tech scene, has helped to improve lives and bring people together across Africa.
The notion that New York's tech scene is really heating up has been with us for years, sort of the way Long Island City is always poised to be the next hot neighborhood.
East London's tech scene is led not by tech firms per se but by "digital creative" companies that combine computer technology with music, art and narrative and musicians, artists and writers cluster in cities.
Silicon Valley may have a larger tech scene, but with a low cost of living, a business friendly tax code, and South by Southwest, Austin has become a serious player, advocates like Baer say.
The tensions bubbled up into view in early October when Huffington was named No. 1 on the Silicon Alley 100, a listing of the most influential people in the New York tech scene.
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The Chicago effort is primarily aimed at expanding low cost gigabit fiber speeds to businesses, critical not just for the burgeoning tech scene, but really all companies and industries that are increasingly dependent on cloud computing and interconnectivity.
As for the idea that being involved in the tech scene as an investor makes him a better informed observer, one might as well say that an energy reporter who consults for Halliburton and BP is better serving his readers through the insights he acquires moonlighting.
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Now celebrating its second birthday, Lanyrd is one of the ongoing success stories of the UK tech scene, so Downe and Willison have taken this opportunity to look back on the formative days, weeks, and months of Lanyrd through their tweets, photos, and thoughts during that productive first week in Casablanca.
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Alt-folk singer-songwriter Sean Hayes may not have generated much name recognition beyond the San Francisco area, where his early acoustic performances provided a welcome and humanizing respite from the tech-utopian music scene of the mid-'90s.
Even as New York entrepreneurs can rub elbows with the founders of Foursquare at tech events, the overall scene still lacks the critical mass of entrepreneurs who have successfully exited billion-dollar companies, are starting again and ready to help local entrepreneurs or its own PayPal Mafia.
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Investigators are using a high tech 3-D video camera to review the scene and attempt to pinpoint where the bridge failure began.
For all the talk of innovation, the tech crowd has also created its own routine social scene: breakfasts at Balthazar, lunches at Lure Fishbar and drinks at the lobby of the Ace Hotel.
Certainly more people follow the NBA than League of Legends, but the burgeoning eSports scene is connecting with a young demographic of tech savvy gamers that have disposable incomes and a lot of time to spend on livestreaming.
Much like all domains in the tech industry today, crowd funding has made its way into the music scene.
And the first images out of Virginia Tech during the 2007 campus shooting were taken by students before professionals could hit the scene, added Nora Paul, founding director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota.
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