New Jersey Tech, Business, & Creative Resources
The Garden State’s competitive coffee landscape is getting a distinctively tropical jolt. Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii, the national franchise known for its premium island-sourced beans and laid-back surf aesthetic, is doubling down on its retail footprint in New Jersey.…
Long before smartphones and subsea fiber-optic arrays dictated the velocity of global commerce, New Jersey’s geographical positioning made it an indispensable nerve center for American telecommunications. Nestled between the massive economic engines of New York and Philadelphia, the Garden State…
New Jersey is rapidly shifting away from its legacy as a traditional industrial and manufacturing corridor, emerging instead as a primary engine for the East Coast’s artificial intelligence boom. Over the past few years, the state has orchestrated a sweeping…
South Jersey is about to become the backdrop for an exciting new project. Casting is officially underway for an upcoming proof-of-concept pilot, and the production team is looking for local talent to fill a variety of day player and background…
Running a business in North Jersey means competing in one of the fastest, fiercest markets in the country. The old endgame, however, was simply appearing at the top of the page. Not anymore. Between localized Map Packs, traditional organic links,…
In over two decades of covering the tech sector, I’ve watched the frontline of global competition shift repeatedly. We went from the software wars of the early 2000s to the smartphone gold rush, and later, the race for cloud dominance.…
TRENTON — In what has become an all-too-familiar ritual in the State House, New Jersey lawmakers beat the constitutional midnight deadline on June 30 to deliver a $60.7 billion Fiscal Year 2027 spending plan. Formally signed into law by Governor…
When Sony dropped the hammer and announced it would entirely phase out physical PlayStation game discs by January 2028, the collective sigh from game preservationists and collectors could be heard across the industry. It felt like the definitive end of…
The explosive build-out of artificial intelligence data centers has run headfirst into a massive bottleneck: the electrical grid. As tech hyperscale’s scramble to secure gigawatts of power, wait times to connect to traditional utility grids have skyrocketed. To bypass these…
In my 20 years covering the technology and enterprise infrastructure sectors, I have evaluated hundreds of corporate relocations, data center builds, and regional ecosystem investments. Technology executives, venture capitalists, and data center operators look for many variables when choosing where…
Five years ago, Kyle Page was sitting inside a cell at a maximum-security prison, serving a lengthy sentence for non-violent cannabis distribution charges. Today, he stands at the helm of a sprawling, 4,000-square-foot adult-use cannabis dispensary known as East Coasting,…
If you think New Jersey’s cultural heartbeat only thumps in the shadow of Manhattan, you aren’t paying attention. This weekend, the Garden State is staging a masterclass in homegrown creativity. From the gritty, avant-garde screening rooms of Jersey City to…
When a major corporation downsizes or packs up its headquarters to leave the Garden State, the immediate headline is almost always focused on the raw number of pink slips issued. But a sobering new economic analysis reveals that the true…
A seismic realignment has occurred at the summit of corporate America. The newly released 2026 Fortune 500 rankings reveal that Amazon has officially captured the No. 1 spot, ending Walmart’s formidable 13-year streak as the nation’s largest company by revenue.…
The race to secure the materials necessary for the global energy transition just found a new front line in Kenilworth, New Jersey. Still Bright, Inc., a clean-tech startup that has spent the last four years quietly reinventing the way we…
The rapid ascent of artificial intelligence is rewriting the playbook for regional infrastructure, and nowhere is the friction more visible than in New Jersey. As data centers—the physical engines powering the AI revolution—proliferate across the state, they bring with them…
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant frontier; it is the infrastructure upon which the next decade of global economic competitiveness will be built. From the precision-driven demands of life sciences to the massive scales of advanced manufacturing and logistics,…
The race to dominate the artificial intelligence infrastructure landscape is no longer just about who has the fastest GPUs; it’s about who has the people to run them. Last week, Rowan University and Amsterdam-based AI infrastructure firm Nebius announced a…