Google is no longer a company. It is now a subsidiary, belonging to a holdings company and conglomerate called Alphabet. The company was created by ex-Google CEO Larry Page, in a move to reo… Read More
"To some, advertising executives exist at the fringes of legitimacy. We are neither hard-core business people nor scholars. We do not control the levers of capitalism nor offer academic insi… Read More
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh doesn't want to put taxpayers in the position to pay for cost overruns. That unwillingness to make Boston's citizens the insurance policy for Boston 2024 has res… Read More
In a post from last year, The Culture Effect, I discussed the importance of viewing things in a "Chinese way". The Today Show interview with JWT China CEO, Tom Doctoroff, illustrates and re… Read More
Regardless of what you think of the process Liu Xiaobo is going through right now, the Christian Science Monitor's recent piece on the story has to stand out as some of the worst reporting o… Read More
Google's parent company Alphabet is planning on building a hi-tech experimental city in the US to test out all the hardware and infrastructure, according to reports.Sidewalk Labs, one of Alp… Read More
1. This week at Market Urbanism:Emily Washington ties Adam Smith‘s ideas to urbanism in Mercantilist logic and land-use regulationAdam Smith taught the world that mercantilis… Read More
So your company has expanded to become a global powerhouse? You've got product in over 20 countries? Wow, that's awesome! How are you dealing with the competition? A… Read More
‘A living laboratory for urban technology’
For months, it was rumored that Sidewalk Labs, the Google spinoff focused on smart city solutions, wanted to build its own city-within… Read More
Brand and China thought leader Doctoroff strengthens Prophet’s expertise on brand-driven growth in Asia Prophet, the global brand and marketing consultancy, today announced the hiring… Read More
That’s obviously an ambitious project, but some of the groundwork is already being laid: Alphabet’s Google will be the flagship tenant for the new neighbourhood, anchoring the e… Read More
China’s social media, e-commerce and technology brands continue to dominate with Alipay, WeChat and Android topping a list of the most relevant brands in Chinese consumers lives.
The C… Read More
Smart cities appear to be popping up all around the world, but are they really helping urban development within the most rural areas?
Over the course of the past year, both Dubai and Toronto… Read More
An old city in Toronto has been chosen to be developed into a futuristic metropolis. A Google corporate sibling will spend the coming years building and executing plans for the city and turn… Read More
Android HeadlinesGoogle spinoff Sidewalk Labs is still building “the city of the future” in Toronto, being close to entering its third year of the project that started with a 201… Read More
One of the reasons why North America, particularly United States of America, has reigned supreme for nearly a century as the world’s strongest and biggest economy is because of its con… Read More
On Toronto's Eastern waterfront, a new digital city is being built by Sidewalk Labs -- a firm owned by Google's parent Alphabet. It hopes the project will become a model for 21st-Century urb… Read More
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Washington Post: A unit of Google's parent company Alphabet is proposing to turn a rundown part of Toronto's waterfront into what may be the most… Read More
Sidewalk Labs, the urban innovation arm of Google's parent company, Alphabet, plans to build a high-tech neighborhood along Toronto's Eastern Waterfront.Local residents concerned about… Read More
Alphabet, Google’s mum or dad corporate, will likely be redeveloping three.three million acres alongside the waterfront of Lake Ontario for its Sidewalk Labs initiative… Read More
Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet's smart city subsidiary, released its massive plan Monday to transform a slice of Toronto's waterfront into a high-tech utopia. From a report: Eighteen months in the… Read More
Alphabet on Monday released details of a proposed smart city development for Toronto, outlining plans in a 1,500 page document. Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff said at a press conference tha… Read More
Sidewalk Labs has released its vision for a substantial new development on Toronto's eastern waterfront that is facing criticism for its ambition and overreach Read More
The following is an open letter signed by 145 CEO's of corporations asking the Senate to pass gun control legislation -- specifically legislation that would close the loopholes in the backgr… Read More
Alphabet’s ambitious smart city experiment, Sidewalk labs has received an approval to proceed with its smart city plan for the Canadian city of Toronto. The plan had generated a lot of… Read More
VoltServer adds a data layer to electricity distribution in a move that could help smart grid rolloutStephen Eaves, the chief executive of a new startup which promises to overlay data on ele… Read More
Stephen Eaves, the chief executive of a new startup which promises to overlay data on electricity distribution has spent years developing data management technologies.Eaves’ first comp… Read More
Some investors are concerned the U.S. stock market may have gotten ahead of itself because price-to-earnings valuations have increased so significantly. The same couldn’t be said of… Read More
Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs will no longer pursue its dream of a smart neighbourhood in Toronto.In a Medium blog post, CEO Daniel Doctoroff said “unprecedented economic uncertain… Read More
New submitter Bradmont shares a report: Sidewalk Labs, a Google-affiliated company, is abandoning its plan to build a high-tech neighbourhood on Toronto's waterfront, citing what it calls un… Read More
Sidewalk Labs will be using the ideas developed over the last two-and-a-half years to solve big urban problems.What you need to knowAlphabet's Sidewalk Labs is abandoning the Quayside waterf… Read More
Enlarge / Sidewalk Labs concept for the scuppered lakefront development in Toronto.
Sidewalk Labs
When Google sibling Sidewalk Labs announced in 2017 a $50 million investment into a proj… Read More
Enlarge / Sidewalk Labs concept for the scuppered lakefront development in Toronto.
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When Google sibling Sidewalk Labs announced in 2017 a $50 million investment into a proje… Read More
Sidewalk Labs has announced it will abandon its plans to build a $900 million smart city in Toronto, marking a major blow to the Alphabet company.But it's not the first Alphabet division to… Read More
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs has pulled the plug on its Toronto "smart city" project, citing "unprecedented economic uncertainty" in a setback for the city's long-planned waterfront revitalisati… Read More
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs plans to spin out some of its smart city ideas into separate companies, CEO Daniel Doctoroff said today at Coll… Read More
The Station: Amazoox, TuSimple seeks $250M and the next e-scooter battlegroundThe Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click… Read More
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every Saturday in your inbox.Hi friends and… Read More
Alphabet's smart city project is winding down and Google will take over its products. Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff announced the news in a letter, in which he noted he is stepping down fo… Read More
Alphabet's smart city project is winding down and Google will take over its products. From a report: Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff announced the news in a letter, in which he noted he is s… Read More
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British actor Ralph Fiennes performs in 'Straight Line Crazy' at The Shed theater in New York City in October 2022
New York (AFP) – Was he a visionary or a corrup… Read More
Mike Bloomberg: How A Bookkeeper’s son Made it to the Top
Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an American businessman, author, philanthropist, and three-term mayor of New York City. He is Bloo… Read More
Shaquille O’Neal, Rob Gronkowski, Sallie Krawcheck, Dan Doctoroff and Jon Oringer Among Attendees
NEW YORK, June 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — A selection of business leaders, invest… Read More
Individuals like to write down off New York Metropolis, and again and again, this metropolis proves them improper.
It’s by no means been magic, nonetheless — the resurrection… Read More