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Big StoriesSidewalk Labs is in final negotiations with Toronto to build a smart city from the ground up on a 12-acre site.This is what America's eco-city of the future looks like. The GuardianUber and Lyft lead to more vehicle usage in urban areas, leading some to call for congestion pricing. CurbedWhen big cities thrive, smaller cities are often left behind. NYT Georgetown, Texas, a city whe...
Lost among the ribbon cuttings and public announcements heralding Amazon.com Inc.’s fast-growing portfolio of sorting and distribution centers is the company’s quiet expansion in some of the country’s strongest technology hubs. Amazon’s low profile in those cities is not an accident. About 25 percent of Amazon’s corporate workforce of some 382,000 employees is spread throughout a dozen o...
Born out of a frustration with recruiting within the peninsula-trapped City of San Francisco, Terminal is a platform allowing companies to tap into talent abroad. Starting with campuses in Kitchener-Waterloo, Montreal and Vancouver, the startup aims to plant physical flags in as many of the world’s global talent centers as possible. Terminal is being run by 8VC‘s Joe Lonsdale, Atomic‘s Jack ...
To build or to buy? It’s a question that often arises when companies are assessing their software needs. One company that has experience in both approaches is global commercial real estate brokerage firm, JLL. Over the past couple of years the firm, which manages dozens of company-wide applications, has significantly shifted its technology strategy, going from a primarily build to a buy-focused ...
Author By Daphne Howland, Corinne Ruff • Published Oct. 16, 2017 Share it post share tweet Dive Brief: As the 13-week Target + Techstars retail accelerator comes to an end, half of the 10 participating startups are leaving with formal agreements with Target for pilot projects, and others are still in talks, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Two overseas startups that participated in the pr...
techcrunch.com While Airbnb continues to grow its number of hosts and guests on the platform, sending the hotel industry into a frenzy, landlords and building owners don’t share the same enthusiasm for the home-sharing platform as Airbnb users. But the company has a new plan that gets each party on board with home-sharing. The company is collaborating with development firm Newgard Development Gr...
The most wonderful and most terrible things about new technologies are their emergent properties. The latest example is, of course, Fake News On Facebook; who would have thought that connecting everyone via social media would lead to wildly divergent narratives of (so-called) reality? And yet here we are. But if you think social media is messy and weird … just wait until we get self-driving cars...
Real estate execs and business leaders say they are confident New York will be on Amazon's short list after bids for its second headquarters are submitted this week. After all, the metropolitan area is Amazon's No. 1 sales market, and it's a priority for the company to grow its footprint here. The e-tailer last month leased 360,000 square feet at 5 Manhattan West on top of the 470,0...
John Wechsler doesn’t like to keep the same job for long. His resume is cluttered with short stints leading startups. And for the past 20 years, he has followed his passion quickly from one job to the next. Fadness But Launch Fishers—the co-working space he founded in 2012—has provided enough of the excitement Wechsler seeks in a job. So he’s remained its CEO for five years, even though he...
In this webinar, the teams from Care@Work (Care.com) and Chiron Health discuss how to create and execute a content marketing strategy in healthcare. A strong content marketing strategy is critical in healthcare. And crafting a strategy is a long game. Your marketing team must invest time and energy in creating effective content to foster engagement and loyalty from your customers. In this web...