According to a report prepared by Cook Associates, New York City surpassed Boston in terms of internet and digital media hiring by tech firms. This can be attributed to companies like Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) hiring a lot more people in New York City as opposed to Boston. John Barrett, a Cook Associates’ who is jointly based in Boston as well as New York shared that the growth rate of hiring is twice as much in New York City. This seems to be happening at the same time when venture capital funding has also slowed down in Boston area quite a bit. VC dollars seem to also flow in the direction of New York.

There is some hard data behind this claim such as Google hired 700 people in New York City and only 85 in Boston in the year 2012. Barrett also shared that hiring growth slowed down in Boston in the second half of 2012 and will continue to be mediocre for another three to six months. Cook Associates is using LinkedIn data to do their analysis on the region.

If we look at the profile of companies in the Boston area, Monster Worldwide (NYSE: MWW) has been the biggest employer in the region with more than 1000 employees, but it has been shedding jobs. According to Cook Associates, the companies that may surpass Monster Worldwide in Boston are Google and Vistaprint (Nasdaq: VPRT).

The following 10 companies showed the largest headcount gains in the Boston area during the fourth quarter of 2012:

Wayfair
Hubspot
Vistaprint
Google
TripAdvisor
Rue La La
Amazon
Karmaloop
Care.com
1Jumptap

According to Cook Associates, the following developing companies show signs of large headcount gains in the Boston area:

DataXu
CustomMade
Bluefin Labs
Localytics
CoachUp
NetProspex
FitnessKeeper
Gemvara
Visible Measures
WordStream
Tapjoy
Visual IQ
Punchey

Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites around. Millions of people use it as part of the daily routine to communicate with friends. However, there is a growing trend toward a sense of tiredness when it comes to this social media network.

The Pew Research Center has conducted a new study and uncovered many interesting statistics among users. It has seen that half of all users admit that taking a break from the site is necessary. Certain individuals have claimed to have taken breaks that lasted for numerous weeks.

There are many reasons behind these “vacations”. For example, a person may wish to properly fine tune a profile. Other people have started to feel less interested in the site. In the beginning, it can be exciting to meet old friends or chat over everyday activities. As time goes by, this becomes monotonous. Facebook can take up a lot of time that can be better spent doing something else. A few users have also felt concern over privacy or security issues.

Most of these people do return to Facebook, but on a more limited basis. 20% of people will ultimately delete a profile. A mere 12% of people have stated that Facebook is more important after one year of use. This is a good indication of a definite user “burnout”. When a person looks more in depth into this study, it is vital to note that almost half of younger users have lowered usage over the last year. Only a quarter of older users report this same fact.

The biggest challenge on the horizon for Facebookis understanding how to maintain profits from its high user rate. To keep people interested, Facebook has introduced “Graph Search”. This is a tool that is meant to help a person locate answers to almost any type of question. This includes love matches, job listings, and travel reviews.

In the end, this study has examined how people attempt to balance real life with social media. What first appealed to Facebookusers, may not be as important now. Even though people enjoy staying connected with friends, the large amount of time that it takes may not be worth it.

The luck of San Francisco company Zynga has changed dramatically. They have been losing visitors, profits, and vital employees. The company, innovators of social gaming, is example of just how fickle the success of a tech company can be.

In 2011, Zynga was estimated to be a $20 billion company. A year ago, when they underwent a public offer, their worth had gone down to $7 billion. As of February 2013, their value has gone down even further, down to $2 billion, which is not desirable, yet better than previously thought.

In the near future, Zynga will try to find out if they can successfully create mobile versions of their most well-known games. The founder and main CEO of Zynga, Mark Pincus, wishes that Zynga had made the switch to mobile earlier, but that the company can be successful in the long term with making their games more available on mobile platforms. He cited the need for creating a strong network, because the irony of social gaming is that it is not always social.

Zynga’s recent earnings report showed that their revenue had remained steady, but had lost six percent of frequent users, in addition to losing those who are more casual. Even though they are not experiencing growth, there are some positives. Per share earnings were one cent, when experts had been predicting a three cent loss. They have not dipped into their cash reserves. In addition, after hours, Zynga shares experienced a slight increase in trading.

Zynga has had to deal with much transition. Just a couple of years prior, they had only 20 people decicated to mobile They have also lost important people. Their main designer, Brian Reynolds, quit a week ago, wanting to be able to experiment. The success of Zynga is in large part to its association with Facebook. However, Facebook next month will be able to create their own games.

The company also needs to be concerned about King.com, who are pushing themselves as a better version of Zynga. They know that success comes and goes quickly due to their own losses in the market, and the difficulties they’ve had with their acquisition of Draw Something.

Every day there is something new with technology. In today’s fast past world, it is hard to keep up with everything going on in the technology world. In 2005, a website was created for individuals interested in keeping up with technology. This site was created so people will have a one-stop resource for information about technology. Tech Crunch was created by Michael Arrington and was published in the summer of 2005.

Tech Crunch provides its viewers with the latest news in technology. If you want to find out about the latest mobile apps or gadgets, this is the site to go to. Tech Crunch breaks all the latest news on its site. The site also provides profiles start-up companies. New articles are posted daily detailing and providing updates with all the new start-up companies. You can also find descriptions for various products.

Tech Crunch also has its own network of websites. One popular site in their network is CrunchBase. This site is set up similar to Wikipedia. Crunchbase is a database that provides its users with information about technological companies and their investors. They also provide information about the employees that are essential to the company. As with Wikipedia, users are able to go on the site and edit information as they see fit. This site allows individuals to learn whatever they want about a particular company.

Tech Crunch is one of the top ten sites in the technology category. Their blog has close to 2 million subscribers and get millions of page views on a daily basis. They also host a series of events all over the world. One event that Techcrunch offers is a pitch-off. During this event, aspiring entrepreneurs get sixty seconds to pitch their start-up idea. They have to prove why their idea is the best of the best. Tech Crunch travels to various places to have meet-ups. During these meet-up individuals gather to talk about start-up companies and mingle.

Tech Crunch also has its own award. Every year they host “The Crunchies”. The award has been in existence for six years. The event recognizes the year’s most significant start-ups and technological innovations.