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Like many startups in and around Silicon Valley, View Inc. believes its mission is to disrupt a stale product—in this case, glass. The company produces and installs “smart windows,” which adjust automatically to sunlight and glare. Each blue-tinted window pane has its own IP address and can be controlled from a smartphone app. In the case of a break-in when a window pane is shattered, it...

CoStar Group Inc. took in a record $59 million in sales bookings companywide in the second quarter, marking a 32 percent increase year-over-year and fueling a 16 percent growth in revenue. The bookings boost stemmed from a 122 percent surge in bookings on Apartments.com, the company’s rental listing platform, according to CoStar’s second-quarter earnings report, released Tuesday.

In “The Big Short” – the 2015 film about the financial crisis – actor Steve Carell plays a character based on noted short seller Steve Eisman, who made hundreds of millions of dollars betting against collateralized debt obligations laden with subprime residential mortgages.

Proptech entrepreneur Ari Teman is facing Federal bank fraud charges after he was arrested earlier this month for allegedly cashing hundreds of thousands of dollars of counterfeit checks from companies that had worked with his virtual doorman business. Teman – creator of the