{"id":18050,"date":"2018-10-11T17:23:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18050"},"modified":"2018-10-11T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:23:25","slug":"saudi-arabia-is-getting-big-names-in-tech-to-help-build-its-new-mega-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18050","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia is getting big names in tech to help build its new mega-city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Dubai (CNN Business)<\/cite>Saudi Arabia is attracting big names from around the world to advise on one of its most ambitious projects \u2014 building a futuristic mega city \u2014 even as questions mount about its role in the disappearance of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, SoftBank (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=SFTBF\">SFTBF<\/a>) CEO Masayoshi Son, venture capitalist and Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=FB\">FB<\/a>) board member Marc Andreessen and Y Combinator President Sam Altman, are among the tech, science and business heavyweights who have agreed to serve on the project&#8217;s advisory board, according to the official Saudi Press Agency. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Andreessen declined to comment about the project. Kalanick, Son and Altman did not respond to CNN requests for comment.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai (CNN Business)Saudi Arabia is attracting big names from around the world to advise on one of its most ambitious projects \u2014 building a futuristic mega city \u2014 even as questions mount about its role in the disappearance of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi.Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, SoftBank (SFTBF) CEO Masayoshi Son, venture capitalist and Facebook&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}