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  • Augmented Reality and drones win NY real estate hackathon

    Inman News – Features

    Dozens of innovators in technology and real estate spent last weekend in a fourth-floor midtown Manhattan tech incubator to devise creative ways to tackle some of the biggest problems plaguing the real estate industry. The Real Estate Board of New York’s (REBNY) 2017 hackathon, taking place at Grand Central Tech– a tech breeding place that provides office space, resources and educational opportunities to startups at a cost– tasked 16 groups with solving issues related to building and renting h…

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  • Sidewalk Labs chooses Toronto for its high-tech urban district

    Curbed – National News

    Sidewalk Labs, the urban innovation unit of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced during a press conference this afternoon that it will be working to develop a new high-tech urban district on Toronto’s waterfront, planting a flag in Canada’s largest city, a move that’s been expected for weeks. The new 800-acre district on the shores of Lake Ontario, a massive new development in the Quayside neighborhood, was envisioned with the aim of “mixing people-centered urban design with cutting-edge…

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  • Google’s parent company is spending $50 million to build a high-tech neighborhood in Toronto

    Business Insider – Tech

    Sidewalk Labs — the urban innovation unit of Google parent company Alphabet — will design a high-tech neighborhood on Toronto's waterfront, the company announced today at a press conference. Called Quayside, the neighborhood's plan will prioritize "environmental sustainability, affordability, mobility, and economic opportunity," according to Sidewalk Labs. The city of Toronto and Sidewalk Labs call the larger project "Sidewalk Toronto." "This will not be a plac…

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  • Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs to turn Toronto area into a model smart city

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    Alphabet-owned Sidewalk Labs, the Google parent’s company focused on smart city technologies, will build a “mixed-use, complete community in Toronto on its eastern waterfront, with the aim of building a livable space from the ground up using innovations in construction techniques, self-driving, climate friendly energy systems and more to build a community that’s affordable and accessible with a focus on connected tech. That’s obviously an ambitious project, but some of the groundwork is already …

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  • How Loan Defaults Work & Investing In Bridge Loans

    CRETECH

    How Loan Defaults Work & Investing In Bridge LoansBefore you start investing in debt in any capacity, it is important that you understand how loan default consequences unfold for investors and debtors alike. Defaults are rare, but they do occur, and you should have a plan for recovering your investment if they should happen. The options open to you will depend on the exact kinds of debt you invest in. Let’s take some time to review debt types and the default options investors in each de…

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  • Amazon adds most of Macy’s building as it gobbles up more Seattle office space

    Seattle Times – Business and Technology News

    In the latest irony of the Amazon age, the Seattle company is taking over the top six floors of the Macy’s building in downtown, giving the online retailer a good chunk of space formerly occupied by a brick-and-mortar icon. The lease, confirmed by an Amazon spokesman, is the latest sign of expansion in the company’s hometown, even as Amazon seeks to build a second headquarters campus somewhere in North America. Amazon’s space in the Macy’s building at 300 Pine St. — 312,000 square feet — is enou…

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  • Why You Need to Understand Blockchain Technology for CRE…..Now

    SIOR Pulse Blog

    I know a lot of readers will roll their eyes at the title of this article, but if you’ve got this far, hey you are still reading! First, let me clear up a few common misconceptions about Blockchain – Blockchain is not Bitcoin. Blockchain is not something used by nefarious underworld characters, at least no more so than the web and internet are. Blockchain is an exciting technology that is what the internet and world wide web were back in 1995. At that time, most of us didn’t see the value and ap…

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  • Blockchain and the Construction Industry

    Dreamit – Blog

    What is BIM? Building Information Modeling, known in the industry as BIM, first emerged around 2002 and has rapidly increased openness and collaboration in the construction industry. BIM is a catch-all term for a range of software that allows multiple parties to access digital representations of projects’ physical and functional characteristics. BIM is information and technology that creates a  digital representation of a project that integrates data from many sources. It evolves in parallel wit…

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  • Envoy digitizes another inefficient office chore with new service for deliveries

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    There’s lots to like about startups that are rarely in the media because they are heads down developing product and building an actual business. Envoy is one of those. Led by former kid prodigy Larry Gadea, who worked for Google at 19 and later moved on to Twitter, it has kept pretty quiet since it took a $15 million check in June 2015 from marquee Silicon Valley investor Andreessen Horowitz to digitize modern office management, starting with a visitor registration system that kills the traditio…

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  • WHAT I HAVE LEARNED FROM RUNNING AN EVENT COMPANY…

    Michael Beckerman

    I am definitely not new to the event scene, but new to running a company that puts on conferences. My team is far more experienced than I am in the event business having come from some of the biggest event and media platforms in the space. When i was running my PR firm, events were a key part of our business development efforts so I was fairly active in attending most of the key ones. But over time, they just kinda got stale and I started attending them less and less.. Same speakers. Same ve…

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