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On Tuesday, Facebook Messenger head David Marcus announced that he's leaving his current role to explore the use of blockchain technology within the company. "I'm setting up a small group to explore how to best leverage Blockchain across Facebook, starting from scratch," Marcus wrote in a post published to his Facebook page.

Uber is planning on adding to its ride-sharing service by pioneering air travel-for-hire, and one architecture and design firm has an idea to make it scalable. At the Uber Elevate summit in Dallas Wednesday, local firm Corgan unveiled designs for a modular platform for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOLs, which Uber plans to use for its UberAIR arm.

Venture funding is flowing through New York's tech startups. In the first quarter of the year, VC-backed companies in the metro area took in $2.6 billion in investments, according to the MoneyTree deal-tracking tool from PwC and CB Insights. The city's total represented a 61% increase from the first quarter of 2017 and was just a shade below the record-high $2.7 billion raised in Q1 2016.

Convene, a rapidly-growing workplace hospitality platform, announced the acquisition of Beco, a mobile workplace analytics platform. Effective May 1^st, 2018, Beco became a portfolio company under Convene’s expanding technology-enabled business. Beco’s CEO Tom Zampini will become the Chief Product Officer of Convene, working closely with Convene’s Chief Information Officer Jim Scho...

Google  will soon launch a new version of Google Maps that will give you more personalized recommendations than before. Google has long worked to make Maps seem more personalized, but since Maps ...

Covered in a mural and located across from a cemetery, a block-long single story warehouse in Pico-Union could easily go overlooked. But this West Washington Boulevard industrial site is ground zero for a nascent real estate venture that repurposes distressed assets, giving them new life in the new economy.

Say goodbye to your bank teller and  your insurance sales agent. Dozens of financial services jobs like these are starting to be replaced by technology.  Over the next 15 years, AI will take even more of these types of jobs, according to research firm Autonomous’s new report.

IF YOU TRUST the folks with their eyes tilted upward and their hands waving in the air, flying taxis could be a traffic panacea, leveraging the third dimension to make room for everyone. Uber is among...

Knotel has landed another new lease in New York City, grabbing 23,000 square feet of space in Savanna’s Chelsea building at