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Tech salaries may not be as high outside of Silicon Valley, but neither is the cost of operating a business—or the cost of living. San Diego’s startup community has rejoiced in recent months as massive companies that employ thousands of engineers—including Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), and the tech arm of Walmart (NYSE: WMT)—have […]

Houston—Co-working company WeWork is opening its latest “Labs” space in Houston. New York-based WeWork, which has 49 Labs programs across the United States and globe, opened its first Texas location, in Dallas, last fall. WeWork’s Labs is the business’s version of an early stage startup program, offering workshops, mentorship, connections to local accelerator and incubator […]

Flipside Crypto, a Boston startup developing analytics for cryptocurrencies, has landed its main metric onto CoinMarketCap and other financial websites including MarketWatch, TheStreet and Stocktwits, the company says. Founded in 2017, Flipside says its Fundamental Crypto Asset Score—FCAS for short—rates the health of blockchain-enabled currencies on a 1,000-point scale based on transaction data and the […]

Dallas—AmplifAI Solutions, which makes artificial intelligence-enabled software for call center operations, has raised $3.9 million. Investors in the funding round were Naya Ventures, LiveOak Venture Partners, and Capital Factory, all based in Austin. AmplifAI has developed software that uses machine learning algorithms to analyze behaviors of top-performing employees in order to create training programs for […]

The last 50 years have seen many great technical advances in medical treatments, ranging from drug delivery and imaging to skin grafts and prosthetics. These advances—both large and small—have drawn on many fields and have transformed patient care. When examining the current state of clinical technology, the focus is naturally on the technology and its […]

A global pharmaceutical company based in France has licensed software developed by San Diego digital health startup CureMatch that aims to help cancer doctors customize the combination of drugs they prescribe to patients based on mutations in cancer DNA. CureMatch was founded in 2015 to commercialize technology developed at the UC San Diego Moores Cancer […]

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Getting into a top college is tough. Staying in one might be tougher for the children of parents across the country accused of buying their kids' admission.Gordon Caplan, co-chairman of law firm...

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Special counsel Robert Mueller began investigating President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, for fraud in his personal business dealings and for potentially acting as an unregistered...

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The fight over a proposed 24-mile natural gas pipeline extension through lower New York Bay heated up Tuesday with the release of a report by an anti-global-warming organization that argues the need...

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For many years New Yorkers have returned bottles or cans of soda, beer and water the store and collected the nickel deposit. Now, the list of returnables could grow to include containers for coffee...

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New Yorkers deserve a world-class transit system that is reliable, safe and efficient. Yet for decades, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has endured budget cuts and been repeatedly blocked...

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A conspiracy theory predicated on the idea that white women are not having enough children appears to be bubbling up across the globe.

A regulatory filing sheds light on how much the ride-hailing company’s founders will reap as a result of the stock sale, and how firm a grip they will keep on their creation.

Lab officials predict it will be the first American machine to reach a milestone called “exascale” performance, surpassing a quintillion calculations per second.

The tech company, about to have a showcase event on its campus, is expected to reveal details about a dozen or more programs ready to go or almost done.

The $71.3 billion acquisition of most of Rupert Murdoch’s entertainment empire is officially done. The ripple effects may not become clear for years.

When an inveterate tweeter and social media hound decided to change his ways, what did he turn to? An email newsletter.