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(Bloomberg) -- Frank McCourt, the billionaire real estate mogul and former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is pouring $100 million into an attempt to rebuild the foundations of social media. The effort, which he has loftily named Project Liberty, centers on the construction of a publicly accessible database of people’s social connections, allowing users to move records of their relationships b...
New York City property owners are pouring money into myriad new technologies that manage the construction process, control building access, and lower energy consumption.
As the national economy recovers from the pandemic and begins to take off, New York City is lagging, with changing patterns of work and travel threatening the engines that have long powered its jobs and prosperity.
New York has suffered deeper job losses as a share of its work force than any other big American city. And while the c...
Virginia is launching what claims to be the US state’s first smart city testbed, in partnership with Stafford County, Virgina’s Centre for Innovative Technology (CIT) and technology provider Mutalink.
This public/private partnership is funded by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) that aims to foster community-driven innovation that impr...
Austin Clements was ready to give up.
He’d quit his job in venture capital in 2019 to try to launch his own fund giving early-stage money to tech startups founded by entrepreneurs of color, but investor interest was slim. Last June, he and his co-founder figured that before throwing in the towel, they’d write one final mass email to anyone they’d ever pitched or spoken to about their fund...
On June 7, the high-profile AEC startup Katerra filed for bankruptcy, having spent more than $2 billion in just over six years. Its insolvency concludes the most well-funded attempt to redefine the architecture and construction industries through modular design, prefabrication, and supply-chain integration.
Unlike the rest of the country, Bay Area home buyers are seeing more options on the market compared with last year — but those houses are more expensive than ever and buyers are snapping them up within days, according to a new report.
As organizations start to embrace distributed work and virtual meetings, the corporate travel and meetings sectors are preparing for change. How will travel managers respond to new patterns of employee mobility? What role will hotels play in catering to distributed workforces and distributed meetings? Can destinations, and airlines, capitalize on the anticipated boom in digital nomads? Does th...
While real estate and construction remained the most impacted sectors in India in H1FY21, there was some buoyancy during H2FY21, with the economic activity reviving. Measures such as a reduction in the stamp duty in Maharashtra, lower interest rates, pent up demand and a halt in launches provided some relief to the realty sector. However, the green shoots that had started becoming visible were sho...
