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  • Relationships Are Good, But The Technology Enabled Super-Broker Is Even Better. Guest Post Jeff Finn.

    Duke Long Blog

    Long has been the refrain that “Real Estate is a relationship business”…and indeed it is…at least in part. But relationships alone are not enough. Nor is expertise. Not anymore. In today’s connected world, even your “best” friends have other great relationships, and while you may really know your market so do others. In a world where everything is being digitized, information is pervasive and clients expect the world to be delivered to them in the palm of their hand if you aren’t leveraging tech…

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  • What these 4 N.J. Amazon HQ2 finalists have going for (and against) them

    NJ.com – Middlesex County News

    (function(a,b,c,d){a='//tags.tiqcdn.com/utag/advancedigital/nj/prod/utag.js'; b=document;c='script';d=b.createElement(c);d.src=a;d.type='text/java'+c;d.async=true; a=b.getElementsByTagName(c)[0];a.parentNode.insertBefore(d,a);})(); NJ.com Menu Home News open Politics open Sports open High School Sports open Entertainment open Legal Notices Photos/Videos open Obituaries Autos Jobs Real Estate open Rentals Health Classifieds open Local Businesses open Place An Ad Opin…

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  • Finalists for 2017 Global PropTech Awards

    Geek Estate Blog

    The finalists were announced…congrats to all those that made the list. Top Founder Award Ragnar Lifthrasir, velox.RE Mike Sroka, Dealpath Andrew Flachner, RealScout Ryan Williams, Cadre Francesca Loftus, hOM Top Technology Award Bowery Valuation Envelope City Carmera Appear Here Lotik Top Executive Award Nick Romito, Founder and CEO, VTS Steve Jacobs, Senior Managing Director, Ten-X Commercial Maggie Burns, VP of Real Estate, Breather Magnus Svantegard, Head of Product Management, Datscha Elizab…

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  • We scouted the homes of the top tech executives, and they all live in this San Francisco suburb for the 1%

    Business Insider – Tech

    The celebrities of Silicon Valley live private lives. We don't know much about them outside of the mega-companies they lead, though it's fun to speculate on the shoes they wear, the restaurants where they feast, and their comings and goings at Burning Man. One thing's for certain: many of the rich and famous tech executives come home to the same zip code. Public records reveal that Silicon Valley billionaires including Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, HP CEO Meg Whitman, and Google…

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  • Where do tech salaries stretch the furthest? Hint: Not California

    San Francisco Gate Real Estate News

    Fiscally minded tech whizzes might want to skip Silicon Valley and the Bay Area and head to another region if they want to get the most from their salaries.

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  • Wearable device boosts “sight” for the blind and visually impaired

    Baltimore Sun – The Real Estate Wonk

    Jake Schmude was born without optical nerves — a rare condition that left him blind. But the talkative computer whiz has coped exceedingly well. Schmude, 32, a network administrator at a nonprofit organization for the visually impaired, lives independently in Gwynn Oak. He commutes to work by Uber and Lyft. And he has long used smartphone apps that can scan text and “read” it aloud. But it wasn't until 2016 that he felt fully comfortable carrying out many of his necessary daily tasks. That …

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  • New-to-Houston CRE tech platform targets underserved tenants

    Houston Business Journal – Commercial Real Estate News

    "We do what brokers can’t do by definition."

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  • Any business trying to save jobs from robots could take a lesson from Starbucks

    Business Insider – Retail

    You wouldn't be crazy to worry about robots coming for American jobs. A 2017 report by investment advisory firm Cornerstone Capital Group found that about 6 million to 7.5 million retail jobs will be rendered obsolete by automation in the coming years, Business Insider's Hayley Peterson reported. Cashiers in particular have a 97% chance of being replaced by robots, Business Insider's Kate Taylor reported. Certain companies have better prepared for the impending robot takeover than…

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  • Emerging Technologies In FM And Real Estate

    Facility Executive Magazine

    By Lisa Stanley From the October 2017 Issue The impact that emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and others, will have on the real estate industry is just starting to be realized. Other industries, including financial services and insurance, are much further ahead than real estate and have made some significant advances in exploring how these technologies can be implemented in their businesses. Collaborative efforts have been formed that have already complet…

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  • WeWork’s Brooklyn Navy Yard home at Dock 72 has topped out

    Curbed – New York

    More than a year after construction got underway, Brooklyn Navy Yard’s massive new office building at Dock 72 has topped out. Once complete, this 17-story building will be home to creative and tech firms, most notably WeWork, which has signed on to 222,000 square feet of space at the building, and is co-developing the project along with Rudin Development and Boston Properties. Aside from the offices, the building will have 35,000 square feet of amenities, all curated by WeWork. These amenities i…

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