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brandonlin July 15, 2021
United Airlines and the regional carrier Mesa Air Group this morning announced conditional plans to buy 100 planes each — and an option for more — from the electric plane startup Heart Aerospace, Ben writes.
brandonlin July 15, 2021
Digital maps are getting better every day, making turn-by-turn navigation more accurate, with real-time details. Adding a third dimension to mapping — altitude — is the next breakthrough.
brandonlin July 15, 2021
Engineers say it can take just 30 years for condominium buildings to reach a point when owners can no longer delay making critical repairs. In the Miami region, two out of every three condo buildings are more than 30 years old, according to data compiled by real-estate data firm Zillow for The Wall Street Journal. In at least seven other F...
brandonlin July 15, 2021
Revel is turning to an app that gamifies energy use to keep its fleet of more than 3,000 electric mopeds charged without putting a strain on New York City’s power grid.
brandonlin July 14, 2021
Justin Saeheng, Head of Construction Technology at Stanley X sheds light on what market trends are affecting the construction industry most and how they are combating the labor shortage.
brandonlin July 14, 2021
Flexible office marketplace Hubble has hit £10m in total funding after a £2m Pi Labs-led top-up funding round. Pi Labs was joined by existing backers JLL Spark and Starwood Capital. JLL Spark had...
brandonlin July 14, 2021
General Motors Co. plans to expand its offices in Southern California with the opening of a new tech campus next year, reinforcing its need for additional physical space as many companies shift more permanently to remote work. GM said Tuesday the new $71 million campus, which will replace its existing...
brandonlin July 14, 2021
Related Cos., one of the largest owners of affordable housing in the U.S., is acquiring as much as a 9% stake in healthcare provider CareMax Inc. as part of its plan to develop scores of senior health centers in underserved urban communities throughout the U.S. Related, a developer of office buildin...
brandonlin July 14, 2021
Ask anyone who runs a fulfillment/warehouse robotics company what companies’ top motivation is for embracing automation and they’ll probably cite labor shortages or shipping speeds. The looming truth of the matter boils down to one word: Amazon. And while it’s true that smaller businesses are feeling the worst crunch, no one is immune to the online retailer’s dominance. Not even Walmart.
brandonlin July 14, 2021
A crowdfunding platform called School of Whales launched June 25, aiming to let people with limited funds begin investing in commercial real estate, but it was no easy task for the platform's principals. The founders who made School of Whales a reality, allowing people to invest in CRE with as little as $500, worked for two years to build out the platform and comply with financial regulations, ...