Tag: smart cities
Walkers Taking Over as Drivers Stay Home; Coronavirus May Signal Permanent...
Coronavirus is cutting car traffic, offering a peek into what would happen if more streets were closed to private vehicles.Some cities are...
Bloomberg Media Acquires CityLab As Frenzied Year of Media M&A Draws...
Bloomberg LP agreed to acquire digital publication CityLab from The Atlantic, the latest deal in the media industry’s parade of mergers and...
At the UN, Cities See Themselves in Vanguard of Solving Climate...
Key Takeaway: Science for 1.5C Cities, a side-event held in UN’s basement...
The Dirty Business of Cement Gets a Clean Up from MIT
Is it possible to change how the most ubiquitous building material on earth is made -- one so dirty that it accounts...
Emu Analytics Wants to Use Traffic Data to Make Cities More...
Sensors are everywhere -- on street lights, traffic signals, buried in electric substations -- taking the pulse of a city, measuring its...
U.S.’s Most Energy-Efficient Cities Are Also Its Richest, Boosted by Green...
The U.S.’s most energy-efficient cities are also its richest, as investments in an urban area’s health appear to make a positive impact...
Israel Weighs Impact of Smart Transportation on Urban Living
Smart transportation -- electric, autonomous, interconnected and shared -- is set to bring dramatic changes to cities around the world in the...
Congruent Ventures Backs Ideas Promising Sustainability Without Compromise
From demolition debris recycling to imitation chicken, Congruent Ventures has taken a markedly different approach to investing than many of its social...
Cailu Raises $10M to Attack Fake News Problem, Shape Future Media
Singapore’s GBCI Ventures led a $10 million investment in Cailu, a Chinese news platform that seeks to use Blockchain and token payments...
Ron Rock: Moving from ‘Smart’ to ‘Sentient’ in Data-Rich Buildings
Sound Businesses: Companies we are keeping an eye on.
Ron Rock is CEO and co-founder of Microshare Inc., a data-sharing and governance firm based in Philadelphia...
Beto Altamirano: “What can the government do now to build smart...
Sound Businesses: Profiles of companies and business models we are keeping an eye on.
Flying cars and dog-walking robots were all part of a futuristic...