Facebook Likes New York High-tech Scene

New York City is already the US capital of advertising, fashion, finance and media. Now it wants to be its high-tech center too. The Big Apple's ambition to rival Silicon Valley with its own Silicon Alley received a big boost when Facebook announced Friday that it will open an engineering office next year in New York, its first outside the West Coa...

New York City is already the US capital of advertising, fashion, finance and media. Now it wants to be its high-tech center too. The Big Apple's ambition to rival Silicon Valley with its own Silicon Alley received a big boost when Facebook announced Friday that it will open an engineering office next year in New York, its first outside the West Coa...