Caitlin McCabe / Wall Street Journal:Robinhood says it will remove digital confetti, which appears when making a first trade and elsewhere, from its app after criticism that it “gamifies” investing — The confetti, which critics alleged was a gamification strategy, will be replaced with new designs
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:Productiv, which helps businesses manage SaaS apps, raises $45M Series C, bringing its total raised to $73M — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Productiv, a platform for aggregating real-time engagement data and insights for apps and management …
Molly Fischer / The Cut:A look at the downsides of virtual therapy apps like Talkspace and BetterHelp, which are booming amid high demand but seem to promise more than they can deliver — The summer of 2020, recalls Hillary Schieve, was hard. The pandemic was bearing down across the country …
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:Striim, which offers cloud integration, edge processing, and streaming analytics services, raises $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $108M+ — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Striim, a startup specializing in streaming data integration …
The city is one of many turning to zero-fare programs, which could entice riders back onto public transit following the pandemic. But concerns over lost fare revenue may remain a deterrent.
As municipally supported composting grows in some parts of the country, panelists at a U.S. Composting Council event discussed solutions to common roadblocks in using parklands for such programs.
The Menino Survey of Mayors found that although leaders predict residents will spend more time outside, only 6% of mayors plan to keep recent changes to those spaces like closed roads and new bike lanes.
Enegix Energy is moving forward with plans to build a $5.4 billion facility off the coast of Brazil called Base One. And that’s news because the company claims that Base One will be the world’s biggest individual CO2 reducer by generating more than 600 million kg of green hydrogen per year by the time it’s…
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by Erin Baker, and Matthew Lackner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst The United States’ offshore wind industry is tiny, with just seven wind turbines operating off Rhode Island and Virginia. The few attempts to build large-scale wind farms like Europe’s have run into long delays, but that may be about to change. The Biden administration announced…
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The platform will enhance existing citizen services and enable city authorities deliver a range of new ones in areas such as mobility, smart parking, intelligent lighting and sustainable waste management.