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  • This App Wants to Help Small Businesses Compete with Amazon

    DNA info – New York

    PARK SLOPE — A new tech startup believes its app can help local shops. As Amazon and other large e-tail sites continue to chip away at brick-and-mortars and residents lament the loss of their mom-and-pops, a startup called Hi Commerce wants shoppers to purchase items online from their neighborhood stores, providing an easy way to take advantage of the deep expertise of those who run them. But while the app might help assuage the guilt of New Yorkers who want to support small businesses, it doesn…

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  • WeWork said to have signed largest lease in Mountain View

    Silicon Valley Business Journal – Local San Jose News

    The offices are being built as part of a major mixed-use shopping center surrounded by new apartments, retail, restaurants and multiple tech giants.

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  • Tech billionaire Larry Ellison just bought a historic Lake Tahoe casino that once belonged to Frank Sinatra

    Business Insider – Tech

    Larry Ellison is buying a historic California resort for $35.8 million The property was once owned by Frank Sinatra and a haven for '60s era celebrities  Ellison's plans for the site remain unclear Tech billionaire Larry Ellison is buying a Lake Tahoe resort that was owned by Frank Sinatra and a playground for the likes of the Kennedys and Marilyn Monroe.  The Cal Neva Resort and Casino sits on the shores of North Lake Tahoe in California and encompasses a hotel and small casino. Ellis…

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  • The Power of Disruption — Surviving the Ever-Changing Real Estate Industry

    Phoenix Association of Realtors

    As an agent, you know the process of buying and selling real estate is broken. Despite the multitude of tools and tech options flooding the RE space, transactions still seem slow and complex. … Inman

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  • Doug Curry out as Xceligent CEO

    The Real Deal – Miami

    UPDATED, Oct. 24, 6:27 p.m.: Doug Curry was fired as Xceligent CEO Monday as the data company’s legal battle against rival CoStar is heating up. On Tuesday night the company announced that Frank Anton, former CEO of media company Hanley Wood, will take over the company as executive chairman. Chief people officer Erin Curry is also out, the company said. COO Jody Vanarsdale will serve as acting CEO. It wasn’t immediately clear why Curry was fired, but sources said it was unrelated to the CoStar l…

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  • Lord & Taylor sells its flagship Manhattan store to WeWork

    Seattle Post Intelligencer – Business News

    NEW YORK (AP) — Lord & Taylor's flagship store in Manhattan, known for its holiday displays along Fifth Avenue, is being sold to the office space sharing company WeWork. The nearly 100-year-old building will be converted to WeWork headquarters, with less than a quarter of the space remaining for a Lord & Taylor store. Ten of the building's 11 floors are now devoted to retail. WeWork attracts millennials who are looking to share office space, a consumer segment that Lord & T…

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  • How Innovation Leads to Economic Segregation

    The Atlantic CityLab

    The urban revival of the past two decades has led to a striking contradiction. As high-tech talent and industry have moved back to many cities, increasing their economic output and lowering unemployment rates, these cities have become increasingly unequal. Now a new study documents in meticulous detail the extent to which rising innovation and deepening economic segregation in cities are two sides of the same coin. The study, by economists Enrico Berkes of Northwestern University and my Universi…

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  • Online overtakes in-store holiday spend for the first time

    Retail Dive

    Author By Daphne Howland @daphnehowland • Published Oct. 24, 2017 Share it post share tweet Dive Brief: It was a surprise last year when Deloitte found that holiday consumers expected to spend as much online as in stores, but this year that’s gone even further: More than half (51%) of holiday shoppers expect their budgets to go to online spending, compared to 42% who expect to spend in stores, according to Deloitte’s 32nd annual holiday survey, which was emailed to Retail Dive. More than half (5…

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  • New Food Hall to Open at Coda Development in Midtown Atlanta’s Tech Square

    REBusinessOnline

    The Collective at Coda in Midtown Atlanta’s Tech Square will include eight to 10 eateries with communal seating areas opening up into a 20,000-square-foot outdoor space. ATLANTA — The Collective, a new food hall concept, is set to join the forthcoming Coda development underway at 771 Spring St. in Midtown Atlanta’s Tech Square. The Collective will include eight to 10 eateries with communal seating areas opening up into a 20,000-square-foot outdoor space. The historic three-story Crum & Forst…

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  • WHAT OUR CRE // TECH MID-YEAR REPORT REVEALS THAT EVERYONE IN THE INDUSTRY SHOULD BE PAYING ATTENTION TO…

    Michael Beckerman

    After several months of intense research by our team and leading industry experts, we have released our 2017 Mid-Year CRE // Tech Report which provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the CRE tech industry as well as profiles on the hottest startups in the space. It`s a report that is considered to be the “go-to” analysis and update for much of the industry. How do I know, because it always has been for me and my own network. And that`s just one of the main reasons why our company, T…

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