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Lauren September 22, 2020
The pandemic is raising the hurdles for entrepreneurs launching travel startups. Yet that hasn’t deterred venture capital firm Howzat Partners. The firm expects to raise up to $120 million (€100 million) for a new fund that will invest in travel startups and other digital businesses.
Lauren September 22, 2020
Sidewalk Labs has announced a new tool that uses real-time data and automation to optimise energy use in commercial spaces. The system, named Mesa, aims to help support cities’ climate action goals as more places push for greater energy efficiency in commercial real estate. It could help commercial buildings – partic...
Lauren September 22, 2020
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said he’s been impressed by employees’ ability to operate remotely and predicted that some new work habits will remain after the pandemic.
Lauren September 22, 2020
On streets in downtown Oslo, former parking spaces are now bike lanes and parklets with benches and gardens. Since the city made the change, converting hundreds of parking spaces in 2017 and 2018, car traffic has steeply drop...
Lauren September 22, 2020
Facebook and Google are becoming carbon neutral businesses, joining competitors Apple and Microsoft in committing to put no excess carbon into the atmosphere, both companies have independently announced.  
Lauren September 22, 2020
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpotHero, the digital parking leader in North America, announced today the signing of an agreement to acquire Rover Parking, a leading consumer parking app in Canada. This acquisition accelerates SpotHero’s market leadership position in North America, helping the company gain access to thousands of parking locat...
Lauren September 22, 2020
Cadre founder and CEO Ryan Williams says that his investment platform is "back in growth-and-offense mode," despite the coronavirus pandemic that is still gripping the world. The online commercial real estate marketplace has now launched an offering called Cadre Cash, which allows members who have already invested in real estate on Cadre's platform to establish a savings account, for which Cadre ...
Lauren September 21, 2020
Proptech, one of real estate’s most successful but least diverse sectors, is attempting to address its racial and gender inequality gaps by going directly to the source: money and how it should be invested.
Lauren September 21, 2020
The Shenzen-based proptech firm plans to launch an initial public offering later this month, making it the first software-based Chinese proptech firm to debut on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong this year, according to the South China Morning Post. Ming Yuan Cloud started taking share orders this week and trading is scheduled to begin on September 25.
Lauren September 21, 2020
Google announced Monday that it has offset all its historical carbon emmissions, claiming to be the first major company to do so. The tech giant's CEO Sundar Pichai says it has offset all the carbon it has ever produced since it first launched in 1998. In