Tag: austin
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Southwest Airlines announces 8 new routes in its latest expansion as airlines ramp up focus on Austin – see the full list
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700. AaronP:Bauer Griffin/GC Images/Getty Southwest Airlines announced eight new routes on Thursday, six of which focus on Austin, Texas. Austin, dubbed "Silicon Hills," has become increasingly popular for tech giants from California. Southwest will operate two new routes outside of Texas, including service from Colorado to Mexico. See more stories on…
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Max optimism for multifamily: Dallas and Austin developers share challenges of 2020, outlook for 2021
As the pandemic tightened its grip on America, resident safety and wellbeing stayed the greatest priorities for High Street Residential, one of the most prolific multifamily developers in the Austin area. “We worked closely with our management partners to immediately adjust our working methods to better empower social distancing within common spaces, like creating a reservation…
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Oracle is headed to Texas now, too
Austinites, watch out; another tech company is headed into town. Just days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed during an interview that he has moved to Texas, and less than two weeks after HP Enterprise, a spin-out of the iconic Silicon Valley company Hewlett-Packard, announced that it is separately moving to Texas, yet another of…
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Tesla just reportedly checked out Tulsa and Austin as potential sites for its Cybertruck factory
Reuters Tesla representatives visited Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Austin, Texas, this week to scope out a potential site for its own fifth Gigafactory, based on a TechCrunch report. The most recent Gigafactory will create the Tesla Cybertruck and Model Y. Tesla will announce which of those two finalist cities will be the site of this Gigafactory…
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Hailing a driverless ride in a Waymo
Ed Niedermeyer Contributor Share on Twitter Ed Niedermeyer is an author, columnist and co-host of The Autonocast. His book, Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors, premiered in August 2019. “Congrats! This car is yours, with no one up front,” the pop-up telling from the Waymo app reads. “This journey will probably be different. With…
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Part fund, part accelerator, Contrary Capital invests in student entrepreneurs
First Round Capital has both the Dorm Room Fund and the Graduate Fund. General Catalyst has Rough Draft Ventures. And Prototype Capital and a few other micro-funds focus on investing in student founders, but overall, there’s a shortage of capital set aside for entrepreneurs still making their way through school. Contrary Capital, a soon-to-be San…
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Some reassuring data for those worried unicorns are wrecking the Bay Area
Joanna Glasner Contributor More Articles by this contributor From lab-grown meat to fermented fungus, here’s what corporate Meals VCs are serving up A record $2.5B went to US insurance startup deals last year, and Large insurers are in all the way The San Francisco Bay Area is at launching startups that go on to dominate…