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  • The Scooter Wars will be a bloodbath — and Uber will win

    RECODE

    Who is going to win the Scooter Wars? Startups like Bird, Lime and Spin have invaded dozens of U.S. cities with their tech-savvy scooter fleets in the last few months. Investors are pouring hundreds of millions into the scooter companies with the hope that the best-capitalized scooter company will win. But as the prior Rideshare Wars demonstrated, money alone is not enough. For all the attention and money that Bird, Lime and Spin have raised, they are not going to win the Scooter Wars. The Ub…

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  • SoftBank Launching App to Find Parking Spaces in Japan

    BLOOMBERG

    SoftBank Group Corp. is rolling out a new app that will let drivers find and reserve parking spaces across Japan. The new service, called BLUU Smart Parking, will let drivers find open parking spots, reserve them in advance and pay fees using smartphones. Each location will have cameras and magnetic sensors to monitor cars as they enter and leave, instead of the restraining locks that are common in Japan. SoftBank, which didn’t disclose revenue targets or the size of its initial investment in…

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  • Apartment Renters Now Expect Sustainable Design Features in Their Units

    NATIONAL REAL ESTATE INVESTOR

    Apartment renters have come to expect green building features like good indoor air quality and energy efficiency, making them more of a requirement in many markets. Sustainable design features including energy efficiency and good indoor air quality are now becoming so common that they are almost taken for granted. “What used to be exceptional is now everyday,” says Dave Borsos, vice president of capital markets for the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC), a multifamily industry adv…

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  • Real Estate Leaders Support New Technology Alliance

    BUILT WORLD TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE

    Blue Sky Ventures, a new venture capital fund from Yash Gupta, Anuj Puri and CapitalM (RMZ Family Office), lends support to India’s first CRETech community and annual event. Mumbai, Maharashtra (July 16th, 2018) — India’s real estate industry leaders have announced their support for the new ‘Built World Technology Alliance’, which has been founded to accelerate the digital transformation of India’s real estate sector. “Built World Technology Alliance is a collective of real estate investors…

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  • Alliance Residential, Dwelo, Google, Nest Present SmartHome Technology Pack

    MULTI-HOUSING NEWS

    More than 25,000 luxury apartments across the U.S. will benefit from this project designed to improve connectivity and operational efficiencies. A partnership of Alliance Residential Co., Dwelo, Nest and Google has launched its Alliance SmartHome technology pack designed to improve connectivity and operational efficiencies, while also reducing costs. More than 25,000 luxury apartments across the U.S. will benefit from this project. The Alliance SmartHome package will include the following: …

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  • Vacasa jumps into vacation home sale process with new network connecting buyers, sellers and agents

    GEEK WIRE

    When Portland startup Vacasa raised $103 million last year, it set the stage for a flurry of new products, and now the company is pulling back the curtain on the first one. Vacasa is expanding beyond its bread and butter service of vacation rental management to offer a new network aimed at helping people through the process of buying and selling second homes. The Portland startup is not buying and selling vacation houses itself — not yet, anyway — but it is offering a variety of tools to help…

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  • Guest Blog – 5 Ways to Get Employees to Learn, and Use, New Tech Tools

    CRETech

    By: Dealpath CEO, Mike Sroka Businesses are increasingly benefitting from a rich and maturing landscape of specialized software tools designed for their needs. Sales organizations use customer relationship management (CRM) systems, while marketers use marketing automation, and real estate investors use deal management platforms. These specialized services are what powers businesses to grow. While valuable technology is readily available, change management to transform organizations and pro…

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  • SoftBank-backed construction startup Katerra to open a California factory

    VENTURE BEAT

    Katerra, a self-described end-to-end provider of building services that is valued at over $3 billion, today announced plans to open a new advanced manufacturing factory in Tracy, California. The factory is expected to begin production in 2019 and to employ 500 people. Founded in 2015, Menlo Park-based Katerra most recently raised an $865 million round of financing in January, led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund. Other investors include Foxconn and DFJ. The company’s goal is to make the building …

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  • Pointy raises $12M Series B to help bricks and mortar retailers fight Amazon

    TECHCRUNCH

    Pointy​,​ the​ ​startup​ ​that​ offers tech to help ​bricks and mortar​ ​retailers, put their stock online so that it can be discovered via search engines, has picked up $12 million in new funding. The Series B round is led by Polaris Partners and Vulcan Capital, and brings total funding for the Irish company to $19 million. Founded on the premise that people often resort to e-commerce behemoths like Amazon because they can’t find the same item locally, Pointy has developed a hardware and cl…

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  • WeWork Plans 20 Atlanta Locations Within Two Years

    COSTAR

    WeWork, the shared and flexible workspace giant that opened its fourth Atlanta location Wednesday, expects to have as many as 20 centers in the city within two years. That’s what WeWork Southeast General Manager Bobby Condon told a group of Atlanta dignitaries, real estate executives and WeWork employees at the opening of its Terminus location. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who told the crowd WeWork’s growth is an example of how Atlanta is building, is expected to return to WeWork Termi…

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