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Canadian cities, provinces react to federal budget's $2.2 billion for municipalities

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Canadian municipalities saw a $2.2 billion jump in federal funding in the 2019 budget. Cities welcomed the funding bump, some provincial governments did not.
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Waze Brings Beacon Tech to NYC to Clear Tunnel Congestion

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Waze is rolling out its beacon technology in New York City to improve tunnel navigation and help drivers commute in and out of the Big Apple. "This allows us to basically locate the users inside the tunnels," said head of Waze Beacons...
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Ex-AOL CEO Steve Case Is on the Hunt for the Next Big Idea

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Steve Case has been traveling the country in search of the next big thing, and he's eyeing Florida and Puerto Rico for the next leg of his journey. The former AOL CEO wants to find ー and invest in ー entrepreneurs outside the major...
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T.I.'s New Fund Targets Multicultural Technology

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Rapper and actor T.I., or Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., is getting into investing. Along with business partner Jason Geter, he co-founded TechCypha, which he calls "a syndicate we hope to grow into a fund" for the purposes of developing...
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Rapper T.I. Adds Tech Investor to Resume with New Company

9th - Higher Ed
Rapper and actor T.I., or Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., is getting into investing. Along with business partner Jason Geter, he co-founded TechCypha, which he calls "a syndicate we hope to grow into a fund" for the purposes of developing...
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New Year's Eve celebrations in cities across Canada and the world

9th - Higher Ed
From Toronto, St. John's and Vancouver to New York City, London and Dubai, people around the world ring in 2019.
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Spin Co-Founder Says Ford's Backing Offers an Edge Over Scooter Rivals

9th - Higher Ed
The e-scooter market is steadily growing more competitive, but Spin's leader isn't fazed ー he's got Ford on his side. "We've got a great capital backer, a company that believes in the long-term vision that we have," Euwyn Poon,...
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Spin Co-Founder Says Backing from Ford Offers an Edge Over Scooter Rivals

9th - Higher Ed
The e-scooter market is steadily growing more competitive, but Spin's leader isn't fazed ー he's got Ford on his side. "We've got a great capital backer, a company that believes in the long-term vision that we have," Euwyn Poon,...
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Need 2 Know: Kevin Hart's Out as Oscars Host, Bush Laid to Rest

9th - Higher Ed
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Friday, Dec. 6, 2018.
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Erin Brockovich's Next Crusade: Putting Consumers in Charge of Their Tap Water

9th - Higher Ed
Clean water advocate and movie heroine Erin Brockovich is raising red flags over the state of the nation's water supply. She told Cheddar that it's time for the public to take notice of a problem they've largely been ignoring. "The issue...
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It's Official: Amazon Chooses Northern Virginia, NYC for Split HQ2

9th - Higher Ed
Amazon made it official. In a Tuesday morning announcement, the e-commerce giant confirmed that it will split its second headquarters and up to 50,000 full-time jobs between two locations: Long Island City, in Queens, N.Y., and the...
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Sweetgreen and the 'Democratization' of Health Food

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Nicolas Jammet, co-founder and chief concept officer at Sweetgreen, spoke with Cheddar about how the fast-casual chain is looking to redefine fast food.
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Sweetgreen Wants to 'Democratize Health Food,' Move Beyond Salad

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Nicolas Jammet, co-founder and chief concept officer at Sweetgreen, spoke with Cheddar about how the fast-casual chain is looking to redefine fast food.
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Sweetgreen Co-Founder Wants to 'Democratize Health Food,' Move Beyond Salad

9th - Higher Ed
Nicolas Jammet, co-founder and chief concept officer at Sweetgreen, spoke with Cheddar about how the fast-casual chain is looking to redefine fast food.
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Questions Swirl Over Incentives Tied to Amazon's Reported HQ2 Decision

9th - Higher Ed
Shannon Vavra, reporter for Axios, told Cheddar that Amazon's plan to split HQ2 into two locations leaves more questions than answers. The two locations raise questions about how many employees will be hired for each new location, as...
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Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan on What They Look For in Start-ups

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Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan spoke with Cheddar's Alex Heath from the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal about what they both look at before seeding a company. It all comes down to software.
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Reports of Amazon's HQ2 Split Raise Questions about Financial Incentives

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Reports that Amazon may split its new headquarters between two locations is raising questions about the financial incentives offered by those cities bidding to become the new hub. “One of the questions that I’m left with following this...
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Scooter Investors Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan on What They Look For in Start-ups

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Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan spoke with Cheddar's Alex Heath from the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal about what they both look at before seeding a company. It all comes down to software.
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Scooter Investors Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan on What They Seek in Start-ups

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Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan spoke with Cheddar's Alex Heath from the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal about what they both look at before seeding a company. It all comes down to software.
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Why Ford is Taking a Chance on E-Scooter Start-up Spin

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Sunny Madra, VP of Ford X, talked to Cheddar on Thursday about the company's acquisition of scooter start-up Spin. Madra said he expects the scooter trend, particularly the collaborative relationships those companies have with their host...
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Ford's Scooter Acquisition is Actually About Self-Driving Cars

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Ford, the century-old automaker that all but invented the concept of the modern car, said it would acquire e-scooter start-up Spin as part of a broad re-positioning of the company as a mobility services provider in an era when car...
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Three years after Dieselgate, sobering news from Europe's roads

9th - Higher Ed
Three years after the Dieselgate scandal, carmakers have made minimal progress to clean up the millions of dirty cars in Europe. Instead, they have poured money and resources into proving their technology is clean using new but still...
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Google's Waze Takes Carpool Nationwide

9th - Higher Ed
Google's community-based traffic app epanded its carpool service to customers in the U.S. on Wednesday. Josh Fried, head of carpool at Waze, said the main goal is to reduce traffic and make it easier for its customers to carpool...
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Police talk cannabis and cities restrict smoking zones

9th - Higher Ed
With less than two days left until recreational cannabis becomes legal in Canada, both law enforcement and municipalities across the country are making last-minute preparations for legalization day.