Migo Inc. will use the funds to hire more employees and expand its on-demand transportation app to new cities.

Secure (or burn) your Nikes and suit up for a 2018 Bay Area football season that could restore fan faith in the region’s two NFL teams — even as one prepares to leave — and inflame passions off the field. So we’ve put together this list of 17 people to know in Bay Area football, a lineup of some of the important people between the lines and in the background. The Oakland Raiders, looking at landing in a new stadium in Las Vegas in 2020, and the San Francisco 49ers are putting their hopes in…

As Oregon college students trickle back to their matriculation stations, many will find their choice of education purveyors does not appear on a vaunted glimpse of the nation’s top schools The U.S. News data, which was released early Monday morning, covers myriad categories, including top public universities, top regional (read: smaller) colleges universities and top liberal arts schools. In today’s lineup, we’re featuring glances at the top four liberal arts and the top five regional universities…

What is blockchain?  In simplest terms, blockchain is a complex, promising, evolving digital method for conducting, tracking and validating chains of transactions or activities in a way that is open, public and trustworthy and eliminates the need for intermediaries. Like the internet, it is a foundational technology on which other applications can and will be built. Today, it is best known as the technology underlying cryptocurrencies. Why is it important? Because blockchain is in its infancy,…

When companies seek to reverse revenue deterioration, they often respond through methods such as increasing sales efforts, adding or replacing sales people, changing sales compensation plans, and revising pricing, product, promotion and distribution strategies. Often, however, the cause of revenue shortfalls can be traced directly to operational problems that, if fixed, can provide a significant revenue boost. The following highly simplified case study (name withheld to protect confidentially)…

Logistics company Prologis has been buying up commercial property with an eye toward Amazon.com’s need for in-city distribution space.