“The Toronto-based firm converting the upper floors of the landmark Marshall Field building on State Street into offices is close to landing its first tenant there. Online secondary ticket marketplace Vivid Seats is in advanced talks to lease around 110,000 square feet at the historic Loop property, according to sources familiar with negotiations. The Chicago-based...

“Motorola Solutions Inc. today announced its launch of the Tech to Protect Challenge, a national open innovation contest designed to advance public safety communications. As a national co-sponsor of the initiative, Motorola Solutions will host the regional codeathon event Sept. 27-29 at the Schaumburg campus located outside of Chicago and invites all bright minds to...

New tech is taking over the world. Imagine a robot delivering your favorite fast-food order? New tech is becoming the norm. Read below to see how it will be powered. “From the time he was a high school student, Rohit Kalyanpur thought it was peculiar that although it’s possible to create energy from a solar panel...

“Uber Technologies has signed a 10-year lease for a massive amount of office space at The Old Post Office, giving it room for thousands of employees. Uber on Monday confirmed it will occupy 463,000 square feet, becoming the building’s largest tenant. The Tribune reported in May that the California-based technology company was negotiating a move...

“Stripe, an online-payments technology company based in San Francisco, has opened a Chicago office that’s about half engineering. The company plans to have about 40 employees here by year-end, says co-founder John Collison, who was visiting the new office at 515 N. State St. today. Chicago is the company’s fourth major site outside Seattle, Singapore...

“Joshua Keller is an accomplished entrepreneur with more than 16 years of experience in the digital advertising and marketing technology space. In 2009, Keller founded Union Square Media Group, a full-service performance marketing agency. For the last decade, Keller’s focus has been growing the agency from a small team of 8 in New York City...

“A growing Chicago startup is joining the party of tech companies expanding their offices downtown as they look to tap the city’s talent pool. ReviewTrackers, which aggregates online reviews to help businesses track and manage customer feedback, plans to double its headcount in the city over the next year to around 130 employees and has...

“Through a partnership with the Yosemite Conservancy, a new app has been developed to help visitors discover the historic sites in Yosemite National Park. ‘This app features incredible content about what to see and do in Yosemite in different areas of the park during all seasons,’ said Yosemite National Park Superintendent Michael Reynolds. ‘It’s a...

“The technology, called electrocardiomatrix, goes further than standard cardiac telemetry by examining large amounts of telemetry data in a way that’s so detailed it’s impractical for individual clinicians to attempt. Co-inventor Jimo Borjigin, Ph.D., recently published the latest results from her electrocardiomatrix technology in Stroke. Among stroke patients with usable data (260 of 265), electrocardiomatrix...