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DENVER — When Julia Ellis arrives at a train station in a Denver suburb to go to work, she opens her Uber app. Next to the ride-hailing options, she taps a train icon marked “Transit.”

The click buys her a ticket for Denver’s public transit system, the Regional Transportation District. Ms. Ellis said she had used Uber to g...

A year after coming out of stealth mode with $40 million, self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics will begin making its first commercial deliveries in Texas.

Kodiak will open a new facility in North Texas to support its freight operations along with incre...

The City of Boston is installing neighbourhood newsfeeds across a number of diverse communities as part of the Beta Blocks project, run by the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics. Screens will be located in Codman Square, Chinatown, and Lower Allson, enabling community members to be more involved in how new urban technologies should be used in their neighbourhoods.

Tripalink, a Los Angeles-based real estate startup providing co-living space for students and  young professionals, has raised a $10 million Series B at a $100 million valuation. Founded by University of Southern California-Los Angeles (USC) ...

Toronto’s Yorkdale Shopping Centre has 35-acres of flat roof area that’s wide open to all-day sun. For owner and operator Oxford Properties, there was no better place to install and test a massive, 20,000-square-foot solar array. Their mission? To generate enough green energy to power the mall’s one million square feet of retail space for at least 20 years, poss...

Office landlords in New York City — known to play it safe and fill their buildings with multiple tenants to mitigate risk — are breaking the rules for WeWork, the office space startup that has gobbled up 5 million square feet across the city. In the rare case that a landlord is smitten by that one tenant, they’re almost always looking for a company with a great track record or a sturdy bu...

Microsoft’s commitment to reducing the environmental impact of its operations is making big steps. The company’s amount of renewable energy powering its data centers will reach the 60 percent mark this year, ahead of schedule. Although the tech company is nowhere to be found in SEIA’s 2018 Solar Means Business Report, the answer lies in wind—Microsoft has invested consistently in wind proj...

A day after Uber laid off a third of its marketing team, Compass’ Matt Spangler snapped into action. On Twitter, the brokerage’s chief creative officer retweeted a Google spreadsheet listing those impacted and invited them to check out Compass’ open roles. And there are many.

One of the country's fastest-growing office furniture and equipment companies is investing with a Dallas-based shared office firm. Varidesk is the lead investor in a new round of funding for Common Desk, the 7-year-old coworking firm with locations in North Texas and Austin. Common Desk and Varidesk have collaborated previously.