New York may not be overtaking the Bay Area as a technology hub, but it is becoming enough of an alternative that a few West Coast-born startups are moving east.
Employees of Facebook and several engineers who have been sought out by recruiters there, as well as people briefed on Facebook’s plans, say the company hopes to release its own smartphone by next year.
Microsoft is leaving behind the once-ubiquitous, yet often confusing, Windows Live as a brand name, and renaming every product that currently features that two-word phrase.