Development news and trends

Saving Main Street: Fairfax County, VA Kicks Into Gear
Retail // April 24, 2020

Main Street may not be able to save itself in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis. Several small to mid-sized towns and cities were already creating support networks and assistance programs before the crisis, and now they’ve taken on magnified importance. One of those is...

Google Shares Plans For More Instant Chrome Experience
Google // November 12, 2019

Google revealed its latest plans for the web at the Chrome Dev Summit in San Francisco on Monday (Nov. 11), including offering its users instantaneous experiences. Dion Almaer, Google director of engineering, said the company wants to “make loading disappear, for all our users,” according...

Hudson Yards To Open 100+ Retail Shops
Retail // August 25, 2019

Hudson Yards is a New York City neighborhood that’s quickly establishing itself as a must-visit destination as Manhattan’s retail influence heads west, bringing with it a technological edge, Forbes reported Sunday (Aug. 25). Since opening in March, The Shops & Restaurants at Hudson Yards has...

Czech Banks To Invest $260M Into National Development Fund
Investments // May 20, 2019

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has proposed a national development fund to help invest in social issues, digitization of the economy, education and transportation, according to a report by Reuters. On Monday (May 20), the Czech Banking Association said it welcomed the proposal, and Babis...

Interviews & Exclusives
For FIs, The Waterfall Is Drying Up

August 09, 2018
Firms evolve … or don’t, at their peril. The old ways of doing business? They get old; they get fossilized. They go away, along with, sometimes, the firms that are stuck in the past. For financial institutions (FIs), it may be time to look to the death of the waterfall. The waterfall: You know, the […]

Quick Reads
Google Shares Plans For More Instant Chrome Experience

November 12, 2019
Google revealed its latest plans for the web at the Chrome Dev Summit in San Francisco on Monday (Nov. 11), including offering its users instantaneous experiences. Dion Almaer, Google director of engineering, said the company wants to “make loading disappear, for all our users,” according to VentureBeat. With that in mind, the tech giant unveiled […]

Hudson Yards To Open 100+ Retail Shops

August 25, 2019
Hudson Yards is a New York City neighborhood that’s quickly establishing itself as a must-visit destination as Manhattan’s retail influence heads west, bringing with it a technological edge, Forbes reported...

Czech Banks To Invest $260M Into National Development Fund

May 20, 2019
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has proposed a national development fund to help invest in social issues, digitization of the economy, education and transportation, according to a report by Reuters....

Apple’s R&D Spending Goes From $1B to $13B In 2019

May 17, 2019
Apple has increased its research and development spending from $1 billion in 2009 to an estimated $13 billion this year, an amount that does not include stock-based compensation, according to...