New Jersey Tech, Business, & Creative Resources
During the last legislative session, New Jersey enacted legislation converting traditional small businesses into worker-owned companies. Under the legislation, the state economic authority can issue low-interest loans, subsidize technical feasibility assessments, and provide advisory services to local businesses. Rather than…
Corporate output is accelerating across automated sectors, but workers receive a diminishing fraction of the revenue their work generates. Federal data and economic accounts analyzed by the Dollars & Sense economic review indicate that worker compensation as a share of…
Corporate direct messaging is about to get annoying. The quick, private direct message between colleagues, long used for unvarnished feedback, rapid brainstorming, and personal venting, is now being discouraged in favor of open corporate channels. Executive teams are actively directing…
When walking into a neighborhood bakery at sunrise or settling into a historic theater seat on a Friday evening, it can be easy to forget that behind every familiar doorway lies a human story. Across New Jersey, family-owned businesses form…
From the boardwalks of Shore towns to the bustling downtown corridors of Montclair, Morristown, and South Jersey, New Jersey’s small business ecosystem is undergoing a profound structural shift. For decades, the backbone of the Garden State’s economy—family-owned bakeries, independent retailers,…
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…
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…