Motif FoodWorks, the Ginkgo Bioworks spinout focused on developing new plant-based flavorings and food ingredients, is readying commercial scale production of its first product — an ingredient t
Instagram is changing its advertising rules to require political campaigns’ sponsored posts from influencers to use its Branded Content Ads tool that adds a disclosure label of “Paid Partn
Will tomorrow’s leaders, despite good and ethical intentions, ultimately use their high-tech tools to exploit others ever more efficiently, or to find a better path forward?
How do you attract the attention of a prince? Aside from being Meghan Markle, of course. One answer came recently in the form of Prince Harry’s backing of a new initiative designed to make offsettin
As 33 states investigate roughly 450 lung illnesses that may be associated with vaping, the billionaire former New York City mayor and founder of Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, is committing $160 milli
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Billionaire businessman and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg recently pledged to rapidly spend $500 million in a bid to push the U.S. “Beyond Carbon,” aiming to end this country’s use of coal an
Michael Bloomberg is an unrepentant capitalist who, as he says in his 2017 book A Climate of Hope, is “not exactly your stereotypical environmentalist.” Yet over the past decade, Bloomberg has bec
Continuing its quest to become the Amazon Web Services for biomanufacturing, Ginkgo Bioworks has launched a new spinoff called Motif Ingredients with $90 million in funding to develop proteins that ca
Carbon Engineering, a Canadian company developing technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and process it for use in enhanced oil recovery or in the creation of new synthetic fuels, has
There’s an idea that’s been gaining ground in the tech community lately: Everyone should learn to code. But here’s the problem with that idea: Coding is not the new literacy. We live in an ultra
Bloomberg literally backs the disruptors.
No other university in the world has so profoundly shaped our modern age," New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said today in his commencement speech at Stanford University. Bloomberg's speech was re
Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire man of space tourism and founder of Virgin Airlines, is <a target="_blank" href="http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog/one-day-offices-will-be-a-thing-of-the-
In his final <em>Founder Stories</em> interview with host <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/chris-dixon">Chris Dixon</a>, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-bloomberg">Mayor Blo
In episode II of <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-bloomberg">Mayor Bloomberg's</a> interview with <em>Founder Stories</em> host <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/chris-dixon">
Before he became the three-time Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg made billions running the financial information company bearing his name. But it might never have happened if he hadn't been
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/mayorbloomberg.png">Today, <a href="http://disrupt.beta.techcrunch.com">TechCrunch Disrupt</a> attendees were treated to a very special guest: