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  • Dotcom Trailblazer Is Now Betting on Green Energy

    Wall Street Journal

    Bill Gross bet early on the internet and got rich with a stable of startups. He’s hoping to be right a second time in staking his money and reputation on green energy. The pandemic, by decimating oil demand, crashing prices and challenging the economics of some fossil-fuel projects, has accelerated some industry moves toward low-carbon energy. In Mr. Gross’s view, it has also leveled the playing field for green energy’s drive to displace fossil fuels.

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  • Americans might never come back to the office, and Twitter is leading the charge.

    The Washington Post

    From his home base on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Anton Andryeyev is running Twitter’s efforts to chase Russian bots and other rogue actors off the platform. A year ago, he traded his office in the company’s San Francisco headquarters for this tropical home office 2,000 miles away, surrounded by stand-up paddle boards and a monitor large enough to see his entire 25-person engineering team all at once.

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  • Data is one key to unlocking a net-zero world

    Estates Gazette

    The built environment plays a significant role in carbon emissions, which means we have both a responsibility and an opportunity to make a difference. As a business we have committed to becoming net zero by 2030, and we’ve done a lot of work to identify how we’re going to achieve that, from working with occupiers to reduce their emissions to changing how we design and build to decrease embodied carbon emissions in the development process.

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  • WATCH NOW: WorkSpace’s FULL Tech Demo from the Reimagining Real Estate Sustainability Summit

    WorkSpace

    WorkSpace is an Asset and Portfolio Operating Platform that provides centralized visibility into the financial and operational life of your investments. With an elegant, simple interface, it removes the friction between assets, data, and people. We’ve built a better way to manage real estate, with as few clicks as possible and give you the ability to make better decisions, faster.

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  • Azora backs Fifth Wall’s maiden Euro fund

    PlaceTech.

    The Madrid-based European private equity real estate manager has become an investor in Fifth Wall’s first European Real Estate Technology Fund. Los Angeles-based Fifth Wall is the largest venture capital firm specialising in proptech and has one of the leading strategic advisory platforms focused on real estate technology.

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  • Lime and Scoot veterans have built Ridepanda, a one-stop micromobility marketplace

    TechCrunch

    Chinmay Malaviya and Charlie Depman found themselves at the center of the shared micromobility industry just as it took off, working for companies like Bird, Lime and Scoot. They experienced a rollercoaster ride of venture funding and skyrocketing demand, product pitfalls and regulatory hurdles. It was in the midst of this activity that the pair noted a shift in the industry and an opportunity.

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  • Coworking, Staycations, Drag Shows: How Hotels Are Drumming Up New Revenue Streams

    Bisnow

    With the coronavirus pandemic freezing international, business and convention travel, many hotels are turning to a group of consumers they’ve never before relied upon for revenue: local residents. That has led many hotels to come up with new ways to appeal to consumers who live nearby, from marketing wellness staycation packages and hosting online seminars to establishing coworking operations for freelancers and small businesses.

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  • This is How the Government Can Ramp Up Climate Tech Investment

    Bloomberg

    The last couple of weeks have brought a steady stream of new pledges to achieve net-zero carbon emissions within the next handful of decades. China committed to it; so did Walmart Inc. And yet a report released last month by the International Energy Agency, which advises governments on energy policy, estimated that roughly half of the technologies that will be needed to get us to net zero globally by 2050 aren’t even commercially available yet. Yikes. …

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  • Airbnb targets roughly $3 billion raise in IPO

    Reuters

    Oct 2 (Reuters) – Home rental company Airbnb Inc is aiming to raise around $3 billion in its upcoming initial public offering (IPO), people familiar with the matter said on Friday, taking advantage of the unexpectedly sharp recovery in its business after the COVID-19 pandemic roiled the travel industry.

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  • spaceOS announces pilot deal with Hitachi

    PlaceTech.

    The global operating system for safe, flexible and human-centric workspaces, has agreed an integration deal with the Japanese tech giant to combine the Hitachi platform into spaceOS’ workspace management app.

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