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Finance
Mattress startup Casper said to be valued at $1.1B with new funding
Direct-to-consumer mattress business Casper has secured a $100 million Series D investment from existing investors Target, NEA and Norwest Venture…
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Flying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass traffic
One year after a $38 million Series B valued on-demand aviation startup Blade at $140 million, the company has begun…
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Asian streaming startup M17, still recovering from a failed IPO, raises another $25M
M17, the Taiwanese streaming company that controversially priced on the NYSE but didn’t list, has returned to the private markets after it…
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Thanksgiving travel nightmare projected to hit these US cities the worst
The latest data from Inrix paints a dismal picture for folks traveling Wednesday (that’s today!) ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.…
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Cities that didn’t win HQ2 shouldn’t be counted out
Scott Andes is the program director for the National League of Cities City Innovation Ecosystem program. The more than year-long…
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Amazon did exactly what it should have with its HQ2 process
I love my colleague Jon Shieber, he’s a great guy. But his arguments against Amazon’s HQ2 process are just wrong,…
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Open sourcing analysis, plus US, China and HQ2
The big news today is that — finally — we have Amazon’s selection of cities for its dual second headquarters…
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Amazon officially selects New York City and a Washington, D.C. suburb for split ‘second headquarters’
More than a year after kicking off a public search, Amazon announced today that it has officially decided on two…
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New York City could be the biggest winner of tech’s West Coast exodus
The New York City metro area could soon more closely resemble the Bay Area. That’s if, as reports indicate, Amazon…
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