The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. 1) Twitter. But a good developer could make it quicker.”.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Architecture is, at its core, about problem-solving: balancing aesthetics, functional needs, and technical constraints to create effective buildings and environments. The most innovative firms in the industry expand this notion, solving pressing issues in new ways that build on or scale up existing techniques and technologies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As urban rental markets recover and people flock back to cities, people are once again finding themselves with plenty of new neighbors in communities which are trying to embrace a renewed vibrancy of post-lockdown life. OneRoof is building a social network for residential buildings. Image credit: OneRoof.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

“We are true believers in the fact that the world needs a new Amazon, a better one, a more sustainable one, one that appreciates local areas and products.” JOKR’s team consists of people who created both foodpanda and Delivery Hero, so from the outside at least, they have the chops to build a big business.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2010

80% of my ROI (Return on Investment = webinar registrations, new clients, speaking engagements) comes from my e-Newsletter, and thanks to blogging my e-Newsletter list has jumped from 3,000 subscribers (which took 4 years to build) to almost 8,000 in 10 months! Share breaking news. You get the idea. Highlight press coverage.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Since then, the volcano, which erupts almost every year, has been oozing lava down onto its snowy slopes, attracting thousands of tourists, including hikers, skiers, and all kinds of outdoors types and sundry, the New York Times reports. And the more people that show up, the more who inevitably get themselves into trouble.

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DipJar

AUGUST 9, 2022

Curtis was Joyce’s local library when she moved to Maine, and she has been in her position for the past ten years. . The original library building was opened in 1904. The land and funding came from William Curtis, the son of a local ship captain, who turned down money from Carnegie to build his community’s library himself.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Tomorrow, a new startup is launching in New York with a fresh take on on-demand delivery. The approach is centered around what JOKR calls micro-hubs, which are really just various storefronts on side streets in denser areas.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

Originally from Toulouse, France, Perret moved to New York 17 years ago and has been teaching French in the U.S. In 2013, she cofounded Coucou French Classes, which provides in-person classes in New York and Los Angeles. For now, the team has licensed more than 60 short films by local filmmakers. since then.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

Tesla will build its next US factory in Austin, Texas, CEO Elon Musk announced today, wrapping up a months-long search for a location to build the upcoming Cybertruck. Tesla was recently granted tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks from both the county in Texas where the factory will be built and from a local school district.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2025

An anonymous donor committed $100 million to Artists Hub on Market and Mercy Housing California to redevelop a mixed-use building that will include housing for artists, a community center, studios, rehearsal and practice rooms, a black box theater, and a cafe. For example, the Aspen Institute received $185.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

ChowNow started as a way for founder and CEO, Chris Webb and his friends to easily order from smaller local restaurants but eight years later when COVID hit ChowNow became known as a restaurant-friendly alternative to some of the larger players in the space.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Newark was chosen for myriad reasons, including proximity to New York City and universities like Princeton and Rutgers. It will be interesting to see what sort of incentives the local governments can offer to help keep them there to avoid the allure of nearby NYC. SOSV says the Newark location will effectively operate as a U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

To create the perfect recipe of new food brands and experiences, Popchew has compiled a list of infrastructure and restaurant partnership ingredients so that creators can build, launch and grow their own local, digitally native food brands nationally in a matter of weeks. 4 trends that will define e-commerce in 2022.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The industry has to provide attractive career paths to allow people to build their careers and have long-term stability.” Using it, customers can see where visitors to a location migrate and move at the street level and track the tourism effects on locally owned businesses. Image Credits: Zartico.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Apart from AI, some of the most exciting technology developments took place in quantum computing, with companies large and small taking different approaches to building utility-scale systems. The same month, IBM delivered its first quantum computer on a university campus, at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

As a community organizer and network weaver myself, I am incredibly excited by the #OccupyWallStreet movement that started in New York just over three months ago now (on September 17th) in response to a failing federal economy and political process that impact local, national, and international markets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Lunchbox , on the other hand, is a startup that allows restaurants to build ordering experiences on their own websites and apps. CEO Nabeel Alamgir knows the industry well, having served as Bareburger’s CMO — a position he rose to after starting out as a busboy at New York City chain’s first location. .

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2021

The feature will initially roll out in the US, and it will rely on support from healthcare providers, local governments, or other organizations authorized to distribute COVID vaccines. Google is opening up Android’s built-in passes system to let Android users store a digital vaccine card , which it calls a COVID Card, on their phone.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

It’s been a few weeks now; I’ve used it to share photos from a work trip to Portland, Maine, and to explore my neighborhood in New York. So how can social good organizations take advantage of an innovative tool like this? Do you have a hyperlocal online network/space?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Facebook history groups and pages have popped up in major cities like New York and Seattle and in small towns and suburbs across the U.S. “Say I post a picture of a factory that was here, and they say, ‘you know, my mom worked there, and I have X, Y and Z from that factory,'” Marks says.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Snapchat’s parent company Snap has acquired StreetCred , a New York City startup building a platform for location data. StreetCred is building a blockchain-based marketplace for location data. Snapchat boosts its AR platform with voice search, Local Lenses and SnapML.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Regardless of what work you are doing – campaigning for political change, providing services to your local community, educating others, or anything else – would it look different, would it feel different, would it operate differently if love was the central message? Are you fueling with love? To Mama With Love.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 11, 2025

As a resident of New Yorks Capital Region, I built my marketing business here. In fact, New York is one of the most economically unequal states in the country. Ive always been vocal about the need to fight inequality in our own backyards. The inequality is blatantly real. The inequality is blatantly real.

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The Verge

APRIL 29, 2021

The New York Police Department has canceled its trial of a robot dog made by US firm Boston Dynamics after receiving fierce criticism regarding the “dystopian” technology. The contract has been terminated and the dog will be returned,” a spokesperson for the NYPD told the New York Post.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

The area was so poor that buildings often lacked decent heating systems. It wasn’t safe or efficient, but it was reality for many families, most of whom were Black, living in these deficient buildings at the time. As of January, BlocPower had updated more than 1,200 buildings in 26 cities, and the work continues.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

Adding to this feat, is the impressive story of how a small collective of 20-somethings raised $40 million dollars from more than 40 people and pulled it off with the local county’s blessing in the form of an additional $18.5 million infrastructure bond to refurbish local roads, sewer and water systems.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

But startups are also solving local problems. Startups are aiming for a global, not local market. It was surprising many startups are aiming for a global, not local market. Many hackers are using M-Pesa’a API to build products and services on top of the platform or as a opportunity to innovate around SMS.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mette Lykke on food waste and building a big startup on a big idea. As the startup’s operations are extremely local, Too Good To Go is starting with specific metropolitan areas in the U.S. As the startup’s operations are extremely local, Too Good To Go is starting with specific metropolitan areas in the U.S. In the U.S.

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2021

Amazon has pledged to spend more than $2 billion over the next five years to build tens of thousands of affordable housing units in three of the e-commerce giant’s major employment hubs, underscoring the ongoing housing crises affecting parts of the US where large, high-paying tech employers reside. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2022

Intel already has US factories across several states including Oregon, New Mexico, and Arizona. Ohio represents its first manufacturing expansion into a new state in over 40 years, the New York Times reports. Image: Intel. The site as it exists today. Image: Intel. A render of the planned factories.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

“These landmarks can include iconic places, like the Empire State Building in New York and the Pantheon in Rome, and easily recognizable places, like local parks and tourist attractions,” explains Mirko Ranieri , a product manager on the Google Maps team.

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The Next Web

JULY 6, 2013

If you’re motivated enough to start your own business and create something great from a simple idea, then you’re certainly motivated enough to jumpstart a local startup community. After all, a great startup community can grow anywhere — from the buzzing streets of New York City to sleepy rural Iowa. Share in the comments!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Education was her way out, but when she signed up for graduate studies at New York University, she returned to live with her parents and became involved in and reacquainted with her neighborhood. SB] 2 offers programs in technology, engineering, design and entrepreneurship to local youth, and supports local, early-stage companies. [SB]

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

” It helps founders build complementary co-founding teams, provides support with deep business model validation and a global platform for scaling their businesses. To date, Antler has invested in and helped build over 250 companies. Antler’s only office in Africa is in Nairobi , and it is run and led by women. ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

We are brainstorming a new solution to a widespread challenge in many countries: How to develop a self-sustaining, independent local tech ecosystem. We propose that governments should systematically support funding for their diaspora founders, not just founders locally. As a result, many of them emigrate to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2020

If you build it, they will come, but they sure as hell are going to complain about everything until they do. Clubhouse believes it can reinvent radio with the right interactivity and build a unique social platform. Maybe they will, but give the folks some god damn time to build. Who had that on their bingo board?

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