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Archer Aviation aims to launch network of urban air taxis in Los Angeles by 2024

TechCrunch

Archer Aviation, the electric aircraft startup that recently announced a deal to go public via a merger with a blank-check company, plans to launch a network of its urban air taxis in Los Angeles by 2024. United Airlines, which has a major hub in Los Angeles, was one of the investors in the deal.

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How Polestar engineers EVs that can handle brutal winters

Ars Technica

Polestar provided flights from Los Angeles to Lulea and accommodation so Ars could visit Polestar's winter testing site. Yet the balmy weather serves as a constant reminder of the climate change that inspires much of the narrative around the electric vehicle industry. Ars does not accept paid editorial content.

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Holey Grail Donuts bites into $9M for Los Angeles retail expansion

TechCrunch

Four years and hundreds of long lines later, the truck is still there, but the company is taking on what co-founder Nile Dreiling calls “a stale $40 billion donut industry ” by expanding its presence into brick-and-mortar locations in Los Angeles after raising $9 million in financing.

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MrBeast’s chocolate empire is making more money than his YouTube channel

Fast Company Tech

Now, the most profitable arm of Beast Industries is its commerce division, led by the chocolate brand Feastables. As well as Feastables, Beast Industries is also a shareholder in the snack brand Lunchly and owns Viewstats , a software firm that sells digital tools to fellow content creators.

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The most innovative architecture companies for 2025

Fast Company Tech

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. The firms Isla Intersections project in South Los Angeles closed a nearby street (a rarity in car-focused L.A.)

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Movie theater trade group rebrands as Cinema United. Here’s what to know

Fast Company Tech

In 2024, the industry finished just over $8.7 A fuller release schedule is expected this year, but currently the box-office total is down about 5% from where the industry was last year at this time. Those at Cinema United like to say that “were not a Hollywood industry. Were a Main Street industry. billion, down 3.3%

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Our official launch of text communication will be done at a Los Angeles Kings hockey game on November 27 th. Our official launch of text-to-donate will be January 3, 2011 at another Los Angeles Kings hockey game. We just launched mobile texting and text-to-donate this month (November).