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Freelancers Embrace Subscriptions for Personalized Work Tech, Says Groove CEO
Subscriptions // February 02, 2024

As freelancing, remote employment and other new models of work emerge, coworking app Groove is seeing demand rise for subscription services that can aid consumers in structuring their workday, building their own tech stacks suited to their needs. In an interview with PYMNTS, Josh Greene,...

WeWork Faces Warrants Delisting After Hitting ‘Abnormally Low’ Price Levels
Stock Index // August 23, 2023

WeWork says it expects its warrants to be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The troubled co-working company announced Tuesday (Aug. 22) that the trading on the company’s warrants would be halted after the NYSE determined they had reached “abnormally low” prices.  “The Company...

Instacart Teams With Industrious on Same-Day Delivery at Coworking Spaces
Delivery // July 13, 2023

Capitalizing on shifts in how consumers work, Instacart is going after the coworking spaces market with its latest partnership, seizing on businesses’ desire to draw consumers back into physical workplaces. The grocery aggregator’s business arm announced Thursday (July 13) a partnership with Industrious, a coworking space company with more than...

EMEA Daily: HealthTech Specialist Doctolib Raises $550M, Value Rises to $6.4B; HSBC to Enter the...
International // March 16, 2022

In today’s top Europe, Middle East and Africa news, Paris-based Doctolib, an online management software provider for European physicians, has secured $550 million; banking giant HSBC is embracing Web3 by building a virtual stadium in The Sandbox, a leading blockchain-based metaverse. Plus, banking-as-a-service finance startup Treezor...

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Freelancers Embrace Subscriptions for Personalized Work Tech, Says Groove CEO

February 02, 2024
As freelancing, remote employment and other new models of work emerge, coworking app Groove is seeing demand rise for subscription services that can aid consumers in structuring their workday, building their own tech stacks suited to their needs. In an interview with PYMNTS, Josh Greene, the company’s co-founder and CEO, said that as nontraditional career […]

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WeWork Faces Warrants Delisting After Hitting ‘Abnormally Low’ Price Levels

August 23, 2023
WeWork says it expects its warrants to be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The troubled co-working company announced Tuesday (Aug. 22) that the trading on the company’s warrants would be halted after the NYSE determined they had reached “abnormally low” prices.  “The Company has a right to a review of this determination by […]

Coworking Firm IWG, Instant Group Eye Creating Airbnb for Office Space

March 15, 2022
IWG, a flexible-office operator, is looking into a $350 million venture with the Instant Group, which has an online listing site for office space, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday...

WeWork Says New Business Model Will Drive Profits By 2023

November 22, 2019
In a staff presentation, new WeWork Chairman Marcelo Claure tore up the old business model of the company and promised the group would move away from taking on long-term leases in many...

Founder’s Shares Purchase Sends India’s OYO’s Valuation To $10B

July 21, 2019
Indian hospitality business OYO now has a valuation of $10 billion after its founder, Ritesh Agarwal, purchased $2 billion in shares from Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The 25-year-old...