Clayton Banks, CEO of tech incubator Silicon Harlem, and Jessica O. Matthews, CEO of Uncharted Power, discuss their combined effort to make New York City's Harlem neighborhood the Silicon Valley of the East Coast.
Clayton discusses how the relationship between Silicon Harlem and Uncharted Power came to be. He also discusses the relationship between WeWork and Silicon Harlem. Both companies share a common goal of bringing technology to the New York City neighborhood.
Mathews discusses how her company is using kinetic energy as a renewable resource to power businesses and entire governments. She talks about why Harlem is such a great area for new businesses, adding "Harlem is a place to start, grow, and scale your company."
State Senator Tom Umberg introduced legislation to regulate DNA data collected by popular testing services like 23andMe and Ancestry.com.
From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, these are the top stories that moved markets and had investors, business leaders, and entrepreneurs talking this week on Cheddar.
For the first time, China disclosed information about the effect of the virus on medical workers — 1,716 medical workers have contracted the novel coronavirus and six have died.
Upheaval European energy companies may offer warning signs about just how much, or how little, disruption shareholders will be willing to tolerate.
Prime Minister Hun Sen agreed to let the Westerdam dock after Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and Guam barred the ship over fears it might spread the new virus.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Friday, February 14, 2020.
A Republican-led coalition of fossil fuel giants, environmental advocates, and former federal policymakers on Thursday issued a "Roadmap" to addressing climate change that, while labeled as "Bipartisan," is particularly aimed at garnering GOP support.
The World Health Organization Thursday pointed to a change in reporting, rather than a sudden acceleration of infections. But for many, it strengthened the concern that nobody really knows how widespread the illness is, and there appears to be no good way to figure it out.
Nearly three-quarters of Americans say they’ve never talked about the issue with friends and family — and close to two-thirds say they’ve never been asked by anyone, including a doctor, to eat more plant-based foods, according to a survey of more than 1,000 people by the Yale Center on Climate Change Communication.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Thursday, February 13, 2020.
