Pittsburgh

Waymo to open offices in Pittsburgh, an AV tech hub – TechCrunch

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Waymo to open offices in Pittsburgh, an AV tech hub – TechCrunch

Waymo, Google’s former self-driving car project that is now a separate business unit of Alphabet, is expanding its presence in the eastern US in the steel city. The company will initially hire about a dozen engineers, a source familiar with the move told TechCrunch, and they will be based in Google’s existing offices in the … Read more

How Carnegie Mellon is helping build its own startups and keeping them in Pittsburgh – TechCrunch

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How Carnegie Mellon is helping build its own startups and keeping them in Pittsburgh – TechCrunch

The math is simple: Big research universities produce great startups. Pittsburgh certainly has little shortage of the former, with two world-class research schools – Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh – in the city. The latter has posed a challenge to Pittsburgh in the past as local startups often headed to the greener … Read more