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  • Verizon unveils ‘Next Gen’ store in Bryant Park

    New York Post – Business News

    Verizon is unveiling its “Next Gen” store at its Bryant Park location on Friday. The reconfigured retail outlet, located at 125 W 42nd St., seeks to integrate the wireless company’s in-store and online shopping experiences. “Customers can start their shopping paths online and then move it to the store if they want to touch and feel the product, ” David Weissmann, Verizon’s spokesman for the North East Market, told The Post. “Or vice versa.” Verizon said it will open nine “Next Gen” stores in Man…

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  • Listing Bits: Making house hunting mobile

    Inman News – Features

    By 2009, mobile users could do a lot with smartphone apps — get directions, listen to music, take pictures, play games, even film a video. Aaron Kardell thought that you ought to be able to add “look for a house” to the growing list of applications. He founded HomeSpotter with the intention of doing just that. https://www.inman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Listing-Bits-EP020.mp3 Kardell grew up in rural Nebraska in a family of entrepreneurs. He started writing software programs in high school …

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  • Doral really wants to be the home of Amazon’s massive new headquarters

    Miami Herald – Real Estate

    Find Seattle on a map. Now find the farthest U.S. city from it. The Miami metro area wants to be on Amazon’s map as the home for its second headquarters, a planned $5 billion, eight-million-square-foot, 50,000-employee campus for Amazon executives, staff and high tech professionals (Read: high-paying jobs). But while economic development agencies in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties are putting together a rare, tri-county proposal to lure the Seattle-based online shopping giant to the …

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  • New Platform Has Tenants Posting Yelp-Like Reviews Of Their Office Space

    Bisnow – Houston Commercial Real Estate News

    Rating restaurants and bars is commonplace, but rating the workplace? That is a new service that Austin, Texas-based tech startup Tenavox has created to help tenants make more informed decisions before entering a lease agreement. The platform allows office occupiers to post and read reviews about their workplace, and gives potential tenants the ability to gain insights about prospective buildings and their offerings prior to signing a lease, Chron reports. It works similarly to Yelp by allowing …

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  • Google said it would build 10,000 units of desperately needed housing in Silicon Valley — but there’s a catch (GOOG)

    Business Insider – Tech

    Google seems to be as much a real-estate developer as a search engine these days. The tech giant wants to build a sprawling new campus in the North Bayshore area of Mountain View, a city in Silicon Valley that already hosts a majority of the company's properties. But there's been a hiccup in Google's play for the development, which could include nearly 10,000 homes, 3.6 million square feet of office space, and a public park. The Mercury News reports that Google is threatening to b…

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  • The growing list of applications and use cases of blockchain technology in business & life

    Business Insider – Finance

    As Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been on fire for a large portion of 2017, focus has turned to blockchain, the underlying technology that powers these digital currencies. But blockchain technology has many more potential use cases and applications other than just serving as the fuel behind Bitcoin. Below, BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has outlined those applications across finance, business, government, and other industries. Blockchain Use Cases in …

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  • Ikea just bought TaskRabbit

    Curbed – National News

    Want Ikea furniture but hate assembling it? More help may be on the way. According to Recode, the Swedish flatpack start has bought gig-economy startup TaskRabbit in an effort to boost its digital customer service. TaskRabbit, which connects freelance workers with general handyman and home improvement jobs, already has a pilot partnership with Ikea offering furniture assembly in the U.K. and currently promotes “Assemble Ikea Furniture” as one category of handyman jobs on its platform. Ikea custo…

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  • Howard County to pitch Columbia for Amazon HQ2

    Baltimore Sun – The Real Estate Wonk

    Howard County is drafting a proposal and incentive package for Amazon to bring its coveted HQ2 to Columbia, joining Baltimore and Prince Georges County in making a play for the massive economic development deal. The county plans to propose a combination of buildings in the Columbia Gateway, a 920-acre business park ripe for redevelopment, and downtown Columbia as the future site of Amazon’s planned second campus. Amazon announced plans earlier this month to invest up to $5 billion in a second ca…

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  • The Cozy Platform Saves The Day For Smaller Landlords

    CRETECH

    All of us have rented at one time or another, and some of us have dreaded the day of rent collection on both sides of the property management desk. Even in the digital age, many renters are still mailing paper checks, or dropping them off at the landlord’s office. Cozy is looking to reduce some of the complication and insecurity of renting for both landlords and tenants.In addition, many property managers — during the course of their daily work — are still thought of as decidedly low-tech. The…

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  • TECH NOW MAKING IT`S WAY INTO LARGE, MASTER-PLANNED COMMUNITIES…THIS COULD BE THE START OF SOMETHING BIG (I HOPE!)

    Michael Beckerman

    I actually began my PR career representing home builders. It was the late 1980`s and that was the only big game in town if you wanted to be where the action and money were. It wasn`t until the mid-nineties that commercial real estate really became a thriving sector for many of us on the services side. And so I pivoted my PR firm to focus on commercial as a result and business really took off. We grew a national practice in a relatively short period of time and it is still thriving to this day…

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