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A SoftBank-backed technology company that makes smart windows for commercial buildings is going public as part of a special purpose acquisition company merger. Silicon Valley-based View announced Monday it entered into a merger agreement with a Cantor Fitzgerald-sponsored SPAC in a deal that values View at $1.6B.
Why now is the time for financial services companies to spur innovation and the adoption to new technologies. Michael Tae and Matt Harris look back on two recent crises for lessons on how disruption can lead to rapid change, opportunity and a new status quo, with an eye towards what might be post-Covid.
Tax breaks for data centers don’t turn heads the way they used to, according to some industry leaders. With the goal of luring data center business, 36 states have introduced tax incentive programs that can save buildings and operators millions.
President-elect Joe Biden’s presence again in the White House is likely to spark renewed private-sector investment in the cleantech and clean-energy sectors, venture investors and startup founders say. Investors predict his programs will include the return of more U.S. Department of Energy-funded projects, more access to federal land, longer permit times for oil and gas, and funds tied to regula...
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Airbnb Inc. and existing investors are seeking to raise as much as $2.6 billion in a long-awaited initial public offering expected to cap one of the busiest years ever for U.S. listings. The home-rental platform and some shareholders are offering 51.9 million shares at $44 to $50 apiece, San Francisco-based Airbnb said in a filing Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Company after company has announced plans to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. Occidental Petroleum Corp., Toronto-Dominion Bank, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. and Equinor ASA are among those that have made such a pledge in just the past month
As Manhattan’s office landlords struggle to get people to return to the workplace, the city’s biggest provider of on-demand, in-person meeting spaces and conference centers has scaled back its footprint.
Of the $50 million in funding that Kasa Living Inc. has raised, $30 million in new Series B funding was led by Ribbit Capital and $20 million in Series A funding was led by FirstMark Capital less than a year ago.
When the economy sputtered with the coronavirus pandemic‘s spread this spring, unemployment surged as employers laid off workers by the thousands. Amazon took a different tack, hiring 400,000 workers to stow, sort, pick, pack and deliver goods from its warehouses across the country, and pushing its total employee count over 1.1 million people.