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  • Final Verdict: Workers Hate Open Offices And They Reduce Productivity

    BISNOW

    It has been one of the pillars of modern office design and workplace theory: open offices, with fewer walls, doors and spatial boundaries, encourage interaction and collaboration between workers. A central tenet of the coworking phenomenon is the prevailing assumption that mingling with co-workers will expose you to a bounty of new ideas — and large corporates in all fields have taken the bait to tear down office walls, dismantle cubicles and remove any sense of workplace solitude. But a n…

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  • PropTech Entrepreneur Launches CRE Data Collection Platform Lyra Intel

    BISNOW

    Serial entrepreneur Rob Finlay, who has been launching commercial real estate-oriented companies for nearly 20 years, kicked off his latest venture this week with the public launch of Lyra Intel. The Lyra Intel platform, which attaches to existing property management systems, collects data about properties and tenants and offers it in a dashboard format. That kind of easy-to-grasp presentation hasn’t always been available to owners or property managers, Finlay told Bisnow. After collecting da…

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  • Watch Amazon’s VR kiosks transform the future of shopping

    VENTURE BEAT

    Earlier this week, Amazon announced that it has opened virtual reality kiosks in 10 shopping malls to promote its upcoming Prime Day shopping event. Now you can see the Amazon VR experience for yourself. Prepare to be impressed: It’s significantly more elaborate than expected, and shows how a top retailer is transforming the future of shopping. Rather than taking the obvious retail angle and depositing you in a computer-generated facsimile of a brick-and-mortar space, Amazon instead transport…

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  • Convene Plans to Add More than 1 Million SF in New Space by Late 2019

    COSTAR

    Shared workspace provider Convene plans to more than triple its current footprint over the next two years, adding more than 1 million square feet in new space. The New York-based company, known for its emphasis on landlord partnerships, operates 19 locations for a total of 560,000 square feet. By the end of 2018 it expects to have 23 locations spanning 700,000 square feet, and it plans to have 1.7 million square feet in 10 cities a year later, Chief Executive Ryan Simonetti and Chief Innovati…

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  • Top 11 ROI Drivers for your Smart Community

    IOTAS

    Congratulations! Either you’re already investing in smart technology for your properties, are considering investing while weighing your options, crunching numbers and listening to value propositions of the various companies competing in the space, or you’re a property manager tasked with selling an additional amenity to provide a leg up on the competition. In the end, this technology will not just be something to contemplate but will be an incredible tool driving a new era in modern apartment li…

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  • Accruent Launches Accruent Academy, a Continuous Training Resource to Drive User Adoption, ROI and Meet Compliance Regulations

    ACCRUENT

    Austin, Texas, July 11, 2018– Accruent, the world’s leading provider of physical resource management solutions, announced today the global launch of the Accruent Academy Learning Center, a continuous training resource for customers. The Academy includes courses ranging from small classroom settings and train-the-trainer sessions to large training solutions with role-based, eLearning training in multiple languages that can be utilized by a customer’s learning management system. “The actual fin…

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  • JLL Recruits Google Exec For New Position

    GLOBEST

    CHICAGO–JLL has recruited talent from Google whose goal is to guide the broker into becoming its own proptech shop. Former Google executive Vinay Goel has been tapped as Chief Digital Product Officer, a new position for JLL. Goel’s first day was Tuesday. Goel’s intent in this new role is to refocus JLL’s tech initiatives around products instead of the service orientation the company has taken to date. “We are going to think through the role of technology and transform the services we provide …

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  • 17 Ways Co-Working Has Literally Changed Everything

    CRETech

    Forbes made the point of how the Apple iPhone upended Nokia’s dominance in the cell phone industry and compares that to the way that WeWork and new co-working models have changed everything. It’s changed the types of places where offices are located, it’s changed the way that offices are designed, and it has changed the way companies target workers.     A building is no longer necessary to run a legitimate business. Businesses and workers have way more flexibility over where they work than…

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  • Behind Our Series B: Creating Value Through Purpose-Built Tech for Owners

    HONEST BUILDINGS

    A few weeks ago we closed our Series B: a $30 million round of funding from an incredibly strategic group of partners. The investors included some of the real estate industry’s largest and most innovative commercial real estate owners alongside real estate focused venture capital funds. We raised this round to accelerate the creation of a new category of technology platform built specifically for owners who oversee the $10 trillion per year annual global construction spend. To do this we’ll cont…

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  • Uber moves forward with flying taxis in Paris

    BUILDOUT

    The city of lights is now Uber’s city of flying taxi development. That means we’re one step closer to using flying taxis on our commutes, and cities could feel the effects of flying vehicles within the next decade. What’s happening? When we last discussed flying cars in October 2017, flying cars had been in the works for some time already, including projects from: Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority in partnership with German start-up Volocopter French aircraft company Airbus Uber…

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