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Zillow Group stock falls 10% after company says it will stop buying additional homes this year

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“We’re operating within a labor- and supply-constrained economy inside a competitive real estate market, especially in the construction, renovation and closing spaces,” Jeremy Wacksman, Zillow chief operating officer, said in a statement. For comparison, Opendoor bought around 8,500 homes in the second quarter.

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How becoming a venture capitalist helped this Seattle startup vet turn his life around 

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Ascend has backed a number of Seattle startups including meat marketplace Crowd Cow, e-commerce software provider Fabric, and real estate marketplace Keepe. ” Seattle still pales in comparison to the Bay Area and New York City when it comes to local VC dollars available to startups.

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As interest in fusion energy ignites, Helion lands $500M from OpenAI CEO, Facebook co-founder

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It has developed a technology that creates a pulsating, high-strength magnetic field needed to generate the conditions for fusion. The center of the sun is a balmy 15 million degrees , by comparison. That said, the company has been able to keep cranking up its heat capacity as it develops new generators.

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Who is capturing the new industry of online classifieds? Analysis and global comparisons - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Analysis and global comparisons Ross Dawson, August 30, 2007 4:15 PM US PT In the Future of Media Report 2007 we published some original research on the ownership of online classifieds in the US, UK, and Australia. recruitment or real estate firms), and Other. Yahoo, eBay, Google), Small New Media, Industry (e.g.

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Seattlepi.com will try newsletter strategy in Hearst’s ‘next phase’ for former newspaper website

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” The company is hiring a new city editor to lead the initiative , seeking someone to “develop and write a daily newsletter that delivers sharp, insightful and useful news to the Seattle community, building on the strong journalistic legacy of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper.”

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Theranos’ greatest invention was Elizabeth Holmes

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She has sometimes been called another Steve Jobs, but I think that’s an inadequate comparison,” former defense secretary and Theranos board member William Perry told The New Yorker the same year. Perry knew Jobs.) “She She has a social consciousness that Steve never had. In retrospect, Theranos had only a few innovations.

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Lynk & Co will make you rethink outdated ideas of car ownership

The Verge

That’s valuable real estate that could otherwise be returned to people. I was able to test a lender / borrower scenario using two developer phones (one setup as the lender, the other the borrower) provided by Lynk & Co. A VW Up from Geenwheels next to the Lynk & Co 01 PHEV in Amsterdam.

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