Manhattan. Staten Island. Long Island. New York is a series of islands and each has its own unique culture. While Manhattan may be a world unto itself, Governors Island is a whole different thing.

BigApps wants to see a better New York City through technology. This year’s five winning projects will be announced tonight. Mayor Bill De Blasio with winners from BigApps 2014 Wednesday night is the ...

New York City likes to put out its BigApps challenge to get developers to come up with apps that make living in the city better. (Recent winners include parking finder and pick-up game organizing apps ...

New York City is opening up its government data to hackers in the hopes that they will create some apps to help the people who live there. Today, it officially opened its BigApps 2.0 challenge (hosted ...

This year's four winners of the New York City civic technology competition BigApps demonstrated how the contest has continued to evolve with a focus not only on developing new ventures to address ...

The NYC BigApps competition is in its third year running, and this time the stakes are higher than ever with nearly 100 teams fighting for a piece of the hefty $50,000 cash prize. All the apps have ...

Now in its second year, the NYC BigApps 2.0 Competition has finally heralded its winners, through Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. There were 58 submissions in which the 14 winners had been selected. The ...

The BigApps competition, in which the city made its data available to developers so they could make apps out of them that would be helpful to citizens, and offered prizes to the best entries, closed ...