Expert: Jacksonville is poised for a banking boom
Now is the prime time to move back office banking operations, data shows, and Jacksonville is high on the list of new locations.
Behind the deal: Two Orlando biz owners share thoughts on being acquired and landing equity
Want to sell your firm? Take these two business owners' advice.
Dow Jones reports explosion of venture capital funding for Austin companies
Austin companies received roughly $475 million from venture capitalists during this year’s first quarter, according to the Dow Jones VentureSource report released Wednesday night.
That represents a 199 percent spike over last year’s first quarter, which saw about $159.4 million in VC investment.
However, entrepreneurs shouldn't get too excited about a wide windfall because the $250 million investment in WP Engine Inc., which helps organizations build and manage websites that use WordPress,…
BofA’s Cathy Bessant talks bank’s collaboration with Harvard on ethical AI use
As Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) Chief Operations and Technology Officer Cathy Bessant spends a lot of her time assessing the latest trends in technology and how they affect the way the bank does business, and after looking at the speedy progression of artificial intelligence, Bessant saw the opportunity for discussing the ethics and policies surrounding AI.
On Wednesday, BofA announced its collaboration with Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs to create…
Austin’s gridlock could hurt economic development; Site-selection expert decries city’s planning mentality
As Austin waits to hear whether it will get Amazon HQ2, a site-selection expert frets that gridlock is already paralyzing the Texas capital.
Plans change for waterfront high-rise on ‘Snoopy PUD,’ which will replace Hooters near downtown Austin
Two years after Stream Realty proposed building a high-rise office tower near downtown on the Hooters site — owned by the family of famed cartoonist Charles Shulz — it finally appears to be getting close to a rezoning. Learn new details about the proposed project and what Stream will likely have to do in order to build higher and denser than what's allowed now.
SABIC considers site in Katy for new headquarters
The company purchased more than 60 acres in Katy in 2015.
Not so fast: Plans to double size of Oracle’s new Austin campus not so imminent
Is Oracle Corp. slated for a big expansion of its shining new campus on East Riverside Drive? Eventually, yes. Will it happen soon? Probably not.
On Wednesday, the Austin American-Statesman reported that Oracle’s massive 21-day-old campus — it opened officially on March 22 — is “about to get even bigger.” But the newspaper did not say when the big expansion would happen and only attributed the plans to “new city documents.”
The “new” documents likely refer to a site plan application…
The District incentives package passes DIA
The Downtown Investment Authority approved on Wednesday an incentives package to help with the construction of The District, a massive mixed-use development on the Southbank.
It was the second proposal on the project that DIA had voted on in the past few months. A complicated deal that would have seen the city purchase the JEA-owned, 30-acre property for $18.6 million passed DIA in January only to be scrapped at the request of the developers a few days later.
“This, to me, is a much simpler proposition…
Women-only co-working spot and social club lands in Georgetown with some controversy
New York City’s popular women-only co-working spot and social club The Wing is opening its first D.C. location Thursday in Georgetown.
The 10,000-square-foot shared office space on Thomas Jefferson Street NW offers members — who pay a monthly membership starting at $215 — access to the club’s working spaces, a cafe, gym, beauty room and art gallery and library featuring female artists and authors.
Founder Audrey Gelman told WTOP the concept was inspired by women’s social clubs of the…