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  • Coming Soon To A Doorstep Near You: Amazon-Brand Delivery People And Trucks

    BISNOW

    In what could evolve into a challenge to the likes of UPS and FedEx, Amazon is wading deeper into last-mile delivery by rolling out Delivery Service Partners. The program, unveiled by the retailer on Wednesday, will support entrepreneurs in running local delivery networks of up to 40 vans to carry Amazon packages. Although the delivery workers won’t be Amazon employees, they will have access to Amazon-branded vehicles, uniforms and other items. Moreover, the barriers to entry won’t be particu…

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  • What Crypto Downturn? ICO Fundraising Surges in 2018

    WSJ

    A regulatory crackdown has failed to derail initial coin offerings, a controversial fundraising method. Investors have continued to pour money into cryptocurrency startups this year through a controversial fundraising method despite a regulatory crackdown that threatened to stifle the nascent market. Initial coin offerings raised $11.8 billion this year through May, more than double the $5.5 billion such offerings raised in all of 2017, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of nearly 9…

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  • Leading CRE Technology Firm, FUEL Enterprises, Announces Appointment of New CEO

    FUEL ENTERPRISES

    Christopher W. Perry III has been appointed by the FUEL Enterprises board and executive team to the position of CEO. FUEL Enterprises, the leading commercial real estate technology firm focusing on valuation, forecasting and data, is pleased to announce the promotion of Christopher W. Perry III to CEO. Perry is one of the original founders of FUEL Enterprises and previously served as Managing Director. He will succeed Glenn Murray, also an original founder, who will move into a board position…

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  • Airbnb aims to be ‘ready’ to go public from June 30, 2019, creates cash bonus program for staff

    TECHCRUNCH

    Airbnb, the accommodation rental business, has been building up a larger profile as a travel services powerhouse to fill out its $31 billion valuation, and now it’s putting some pieces in place inside the company — specifically aimed at employee compensation — to prepare for the next phase of its growth, which could include going as soon as June 30, 2019, but not later than late 2020. Airbnb, the outsized “startup” that now employs 4,000 people, is currently profitable on an Ebitda basis. No…

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  • 5 Ways Tech Can Expand Your Marketing

    CRETech

    A recent Forbes article mentioned how personal networks, while powerful, are extremely limiting for marketing purposes. We know expanding your reach to attract new clients is a leading challenge for commercial real estate professionals. The latest tools help professionals promote their brand before new clients, nurture the leads, and retain current clients. Technology helps: Expand Customer Reach How much do you know about your newest clients? Technology helps professionals learn more abou…

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  • An Amazon Veteran Joins Indoor Farming Startup

    BLOOMBERG

    Bowery Farming Inc., an agriculture startup that’s less than two years old, got a big boost last month when it poached Brian Donato, a veteran of Amazon’s automation efforts. Donato will oversee Bowery’s indoor farm in Kearny, New Jersey, a forgotten industrial enclave once famous for building warships. There, Bowery grows leafy greens in a computerized labyrinth of sensor-rich trays that monitor and react to humidity, light and carbon dioxide. Human farmers work alongside the crates, which aut…

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  • 3D Models To Take On Vital CRE Role

    GLOBEST

    Former Apple iTunes exec Chris Bell was recently named Matterport’s new chief marketing officer, and discusses the company’s 3D data to be used in AI technology in this EXCLUSIVE. SAN FRANCISCO—3D technology is knocking at the door of the commercial real estate world and in many firms, it has been welcomed in. As part of that marketing and adoption effort, former Apple iTunes exec Chris Bell was recently named Matterport‘s new chief marketing officer. Bell was previously the head of worldwide…

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  • Amazon’s new blue crew: Tech giant enlists entrepreneurs to own the ‘last mile,’ delivering packages in Prime vans and uniforms

    GEEK WIRE

    Amazon is expanding further into package delivery and promising to support a new wave of small business owners with the launch of a program that helps entrepreneurs start and run their own companies — delivering items purchased on Amazon.com in distinctive blue Prime-branded shirts and vans. It’s “the next big building block of our end-to-end supply chain,” said Dave Clark, the Amazon executive who oversees the worldwide delivery logistics infrastructure for the e-commerce giant, in an interv…

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  • EQ Office president talks company rebranding, embracing tech at recent conference

    CONNECTED REAL ESTATE MAGAZINE

    EQ Office President and CEO Lisa Picard recently discussed the news her company rebranded from Equity Office during a chat with Convene co-founder and CEO Ryan Simonetti recently. Along with the name change, EQ Office plans to partner with flex space operators in order to make more efficient use of its office footprint, beginning with a partnership with Industrious at Los Angeles’ Howard Hughes Center. Picard stated the company is looking to adjust to the changing times, the rapid changes …

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  • Global PropTech influencers close £150,000 funding round to launch worldwide PropTech data and information platform

    CRETECH

    Applications are now invited to join a group of 30 property professionals to help mould the design of the platform in return for exclusive early access. PropTech influencers James Dearsley and Eddie Holmes have raised £150,000 of pre-seed funding from a raft of significant strategic investors to build the first global PropTech platform. The new platform, called Unissu, provides the richest dataset of PropTech companies, information and research. Currently in closed beta, It will formally l…

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