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  • WeWork Launching Real Estate Advisory Services Division—One-Year Membership Included

    COMMERCIAL OBSERVER

    Coworking giant WeWork is looking more and more like a traditional real estate company and the launching of a real estate advisory services division punctuates that point. Come September, the eight-year-old company will kick off WeWork Space Services in New York City, a business targeting small and medium-sized firms (read: 10 to 250 employees in 2,000 to 5,000 square feet) that either grew too big for a WeWork or passed on a WeWork space. Included in the lease: a one-year WeWork membership. …

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  • Smarking Signs Enterprise-wide Agreement with One Parking

    SMARKING

    Partnership Will Provide One Parking with Differentiated Customer Service and Operations SAN FRANCISCO, CA (July 24, 2018) — Smarking, the parking industry’s leading provider of data analytics and yield management software, announced today an enterprise-wide partnership with One Parking, a national parking operations management firm.  The agreement enables the best-in-class parking operator to provide Smarking to all One Parking clients, effective immediately.  The announced partnership is an …

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  • WeWork gets into the brokerage business

    THE REAL DEAL

    A year after launching a real estate investment fund, WeWork is launching a real estate advisory business that offers brokerage services. On Friday, the coworking company announced that it is piloting WeWork Space Services, which will represent companies and help them find office space outside of WeWork’s locations. Jason Bauer, who previously co-founded the brokerage Voda Bauer Real Estate, will head the venture. He is starting off with three agents, but hopes to grow that number to 10 to 12…

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  • Rodin Lyasoff: How Autonomous Flying Taxis Could Change The Way You Travel

    TED

    Flight is about to get a lot more personal, says aviation entrepreneur Rodin Lyasoff. In this visionary talk, he imagines a new golden age of air travel in which small, autonomous air taxis allow us to bypass traffic jams and fundamentally transform how we get around our cities and towns. “In the past century, flight connected our planet,” Lyasoff says. “In the next, it will reconnect our local communities.”

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  • What Startups are doing better than anyone in CRE…

    CRETech

    Marketing! As someone who has been in the marketing and PR space for commercial real estate for a long, long time, I have been bewildered by the lack of innovation in the sector for the past decade. It’s the same old banner ads, PR, email campaigns and more. Blah! But for the past seven years in the CREtech sector, I am starting to get excited again about the amazing innovation taking place in the commercial real estate marketing arena. And it’s coming from startups! Things like thoughtfu…

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  • Blockchain Investment Accelerates Into 2018

    CRETech

    If money talks, it’s saying venture capitalists see real potential for blockchain technology across industries. Nearly halfway into the year, VCshave poured $1.3 billion into blockchain companies, more money than the total for 2017. Commercial real estate applications are clear: property title management, pre-lease due diligence process, payment processing, and lease management are a few areas standing to benefit from blockchain application. The transparency and cost-saving disruption that could…

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  • Heads up! Amazon wins a patent for robotic arms that toss warehouse items

    GEEKWIRE

    BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives. Robots are nothing new for Amazon’s fulfillment centers, but a newly issued Amazon patent envisions robots that could toss items around those centers. The 27-page patent, published Tuesday, describes robotic arms or manipulators that can use sensors to identify objects, figure out how best to…

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  • Flat-fee real estate startup Reali raises $20 million to expand beyond California

    HOUSINGWIRE

    Reali, a flat-fee real estate startup that boasts it can sell a house in the San Francisco area for as little as $950, is planning to expand into Southern California and beyond, thanks to a $20 million injection of funding. Reali announced this week that it raised $20 million in a Series B round of funding. That brings the company’s total capital raise to $30 million. Last year, the company raised approximately $10 million. Currently, Reali operates in Sacramento and Solano counties, and t…

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  • Investors Pour $1.05 Billion Into Construction Tech Startups

    DREAMIT

    According to a new report published by commercial real estate giant JLL, VCs invested $1.05 billion in global construction technology startups in the first half of 2018, a record high. 2018’s investment volume is already up nearly 30 percent over the 2017 total. These startups are helping to deliver projects more quickly, to reduce the amount of resources being consumed, to make worksites safer, to increase coordination among stakeholders in the projects, and to provide new data sources for proj…

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  • The blockchain begins finding its way in the enterprise

    TECH CRUNCH

    The blockchain is in the middle of a major hype cycle at the moment, and that makes it hard for many people to take it seriously, but if you look at the core digital ledger technology, there is tremendous potential to change the way we think about trust in business. Yet these are still extremely early days and there are a number of missing pieces that need to be in place for the blockchain to really take off in the enterprise. Suffice it to say that it has caught the fancy of major enterprise…

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