Sterling Bay is relocating. “After selling its headquarters on the western border of the Fulton Market district, Sterling Bay is leaving for a new building it’s finishing on the trendy corridor’s eastern edge. The Chicago developer confirmed it is relocating its home base to a 19-story office building it will soon finish at 333 N...

Facial recognition tech may be coming to Music Festivals  “Concert promoters in the U.S. are stepping back from plans to scan festivalgoers with facial recognition technology, after musicians and others gave it some serious side-eye. Although it remains entirely possible that music venues will eventually take a second look at the controversial technology. Live-entertainment giants...

(Photo: Tom Harris) Check Out LinkedIn’s Expanded Office “When LinkedIn first opened the doors of its Chicago office in 2008, it only occupied one floor in its West Loop building. Now, with several expansions, the California-based tech giant now occupies nearly six floors across 185,000 square feet and employs more than 750 people. The office...

“Picnic—a Seattle startup, —announced this past week that it has created an assembly platform that can make 300, 12-inch pizzas per hour (and 180 18-inch pizzas per hour), making this robot a first-of-its-kind. When a pizza is ordered, the order goes into a digital queue, prompting the robot to begin making the pie the moment...

Uber launches Staffing Business “Uber gets you to work. Now, it can help you get work. Uber is launching a staffing platform here in Chicago, Crain’s reported. The new branch of Uber’s business will provide companies with on-demand temporary employees — and gig workers with more ways to make money. The appropriately named Uber Works...

  “Merchandise Mart of technology” “Backers of the proposed 18-story building include intellectual property advisory firm Ocean Tomo and TechNexus, a source of funding and connections for startups. Their zoning attorney, Michael Ezgur, called the project a “Merchandise Mart of technology,” a description that’s apt but falls short. “The whole building is essentially a living...

(Photo: Business Wire) Amazon Chicago tech hub is expanding. The company is hiring for 400 new jobs to the area including cloud computing, advertising, and business development positions. Since 2010, Amazon has invested over $4.4 billion and added over 11,000 full-time jobs in Illinois, including customer fulfillment, cloud infrastructure and more. With the addition of...

“You can’t disrupt the freight shipping industry from Silicon Valley. That’s the most important takeaway from Uber Technologies’ decision to move its fast-growing logistics business to Chicago. San Francisco-based Uber on Monday announced plans to fill more than 450,000 square feet of space at the Old Post Office with 2,000 workers. Sure, it’s a big coup for the real estate...

“McDonald’s said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire a company that is trying to automate the drive-thru. It’s the fast-food giant’s third tech-focused deal this year. Apprente, a Silicon Valley company founded in 2017, uses artificial intelligence to understand drive-thru orders, which could cut down on service times. McDonald’s said the technology also could be used...