eBay announced its plans to open a large office in New York City Thursday, making it the latest Silicon Valley-based company to bring new tech jobs to the Big Apple.
eBay will open a technology center located at 625 6th Avenue in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood this fall. The office will include the Hunch team, a site eBay acquired in late 2011 that makes recommendations based on user preferences, and will also house more than 200 people in the next few years.
The office will be focused on building eBay's recommendation technology and data analytics.
"There is a great trend propelling tech forward in New York, which started when Google opened up a large office there," Chris Dixon, general manager of eBay New York and co-founder of Hunch, told Mashable. "We will be hiring new people and looking at expanding positions in the future. We are very excited."
In January, eBay opened a new tech center in the Seattle area, which is focused on data mining.
The move comes just one day after Microsoft announced it will be opening a research lab in New York City. Meanwhile, Facebook announced in December that it would open a New York engineering office.
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Note Steve Ballmer's signature on the far left.
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My favorite sign from the trip.
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This is the famous Microsoft Garage. It actually has two giant garage doors. It's also a place were Microsoft encourages free-form, grassroots invention.
Note Steve Ballmer's signature on the far left.
Microsoft runs some of the future tech demo video it created in a continuous loop on this wall.
Right after I took this picture, one Microsoft PR person worried that, perhaps, I was photographing secret stuff. Microsoft Research General Manager Kevin Schofield reminder her that it was unlikely they'd have it all there behind glass if that was the case.
My favorite sign from the trip.
Microsoft's Bellevue offices offers amazing views. This is from the cafe.
Everywhere you look on Microsoft's Redmond, WA, campus, there are bicycles and places to store them.
You see art all over the place on the Microsoft Campus
Microsoft is planning a big outdoor event for employees.
Want to get around the sprawling campus? Take one of these buses.
Never saw anyone playing on these, but elsewhere I did see a pool game in progress.
This woman sat right in front of the Microsoft Surface 2 device, but chose to use her laptop, instead. Perhaps she thought it was just a table.
I tried out another Microsoft Surface setup.
Your guess is as good as mine.
Waiting for a meeting Microsoft? You can kill some time with one of these Xbox 360 kiosks.
Look, it's a tiny, little Windows store, built to 1/18th scale
This piece of art was commissioned for Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices building
Apparently, some enterprising Microsofties were taking this "wave" a little too literally.
These vines were growing right up a wall.
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