{"id":194,"date":"2015-11-09T12:15:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T19:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=194"},"modified":"2015-11-09T19:59:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T02:59:54","slug":"seattle-again-in-the-top-tech-cities-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Seattle again in the top tech cities in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/750x-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-196 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/750x-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"750x-1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAgain, Seattle is\u00a0at the top in the ranking for tech cities in America.<\/p>\n<p>A new <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-11-05\/these-are-the-20-richest-cities-in-america\">article from Bloomberg<\/a><\/span>, based on the 2014 data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bea.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-destination=\"http:\/\/www.bea.gov\/\" data-web-url=\"http:\/\/www.bea.gov\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis<\/span><\/u><\/a>, shows San Jose (eg the Silicon Valley) as the top city, followed by Bridgeport CT, then SF and Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>More than the ranking per se, it is the overall growth of the West (including Portland, LA, SLC and Denver) that is interesting. As well as\u00a0how growth is even\u00a0accelerating in\u00a0some of these metro areas.<\/p>\n<p>That is where Seattle is definitely showing its muscle: the number of tech ventures that are growing around the usual suspects (Microsoft, Amazon,\u00a0and now Tableau, Expedia, Inrix, Parallels, Concur, Apptio&#8230;) is abundant and covers some of the most fun new tech areas (cloud, IoT, etc.).<br \/>\nAnd yes, this will lead to population growth, traffic, increase in real estate values, all good problems to tackle. And technology will hopefully help in addressing them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again, Seattle is\u00a0at the top in the ranking for tech cities in America. A new article from Bloomberg, based on the 2014 data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, shows San Jose (eg the Silicon Valley) as the top city, followed by Bridgeport CT, then SF and Seattle. More than the ranking per se, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/?p=194\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[27,24],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-landing","category-vc","tag-opportunity","tag-seattle","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}