Anthony "Tony" Ricciardi (born June 21, 1973) is the co-founder of MacSupport.com and The Templeton Group in New York City

New York City

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. He was also the Director of NYMUG (The New York Mac User Group) from 1997-1998.

He has been a prominent fixture on the New York City Macintosh

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 Scene for over 15 years and has been a Technology

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 writer and pundit

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 for publications such as Red Herring

Red Herring (magazine)

Red Herring was a technology business magazine, which flourished during the dot com boom, with global distribution and bureaus in Bangalore, Beijing, and Paris. It also sponsored conferences designed to bring venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and technologists together. But the magazine went into...

, Webmaster, Silicon Alley Reporter

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, Fortune Magazine

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, CNET and The New York Times

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.

The Templeton Group has provided extensive Macintosh consulting services for many Fortune 500

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 firms in New York City since 1997.

Macsupport.com is a nationwide Macintosh support call center. The service was launched in 2009 and is positioned as an alternative to the Apple Store or need help beyond what Apple can provide.

In 1995 he founded inet.d, a New York Internet Development firm. inet.d was one of the pioneering web companies in the early days of New York's famed Silicon Alley

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. inet.d created websites for Compaq Computers, The United Nations

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, GMHC

Gay Men's Health Crisis

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 and designed the first campaign website for Mayoral Candidate Rudolph Giuliani.

He has appeared in CyberAngels on CNET Television

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 as well as interviews with The Discovery Channel and NY1

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News.

He lives and works in New York City.