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  • Zillow Founder Rich Barton Becomes Billionaire

    THEREALDEAL

    Barton owns the largest individual stake in Zillow, which he started with four colleagues from his prior company, Expedia. He stepped down from his CEO position in 2010 and stayed on as executive chairman but returned to his CEO role last February to lead Zillow’s iBuying charge through its service Zillow Offers. The company’s stock still struggled throughout 2019, but Zillow released the year’s full earnings report Wednesday and showed enough momentum to raise its stock price significantly….

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  • Innovating the industry with proptech

    CUSHMANWAKEFIELD

    Cushman & Wakefield recently partnered with Fifth Wall, the world’s largest venture capital firm focused on technologies for the global real estate industry. We recently sat down with Brendan Wallace, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Fifth Wall, and Brett White, Executive Chairman & CEO, Cushman & Wakefield, to talk about their strategic partnership, how the firms complement each other and why they hope to revolutionize the industry together.

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  • Sizing Up SoftBank-Backed Real Estate Startups After WeWork Implosion

    THEREALDEAL

    Masayoshi Son was widely regarded as an eccentric-but-gifted entrepreneur when, in 2014, he dazzled investors during an earnings presentation by showing them a picture of a large, brown-feathered bird. “SoftBank wants to become the goose that lays the golden eggs,” Son told them, two years before launching a $100 billion Vision Fund that went on to anoint a crop of promising startups….

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  • How CRE Can Adapt to Climate Change

    GLOBEST

    NEW YORK CITY — Mass urbanization and commercial real estate’s climate impact demand strong action by designers, urban planners and architects, developers and legislators around the world. It’s also a subject that Gensler has taken very seriously: the Gensler Cities Climate Challenge (GC3) outlines the firm’s commitment to design all their projects to net-zero standards by 2030; and addressed it in their recently released Design Forecast  “Shaping the Future of Cities.” Diane Hoskins and Andy Co…

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  • Masayoshi Son’s Other Big Real Estate Bet Has Some Real Problems

    BLOOMBERG

    Last March, months before the meltdown at WeWork, Masayoshi Son worked through the prospects for another one of his favorite portfolio companies — a startup from India called Oyo. In a spacious conference hall at his Tokyo headquarters, the Japanese billionaire huddled with lieutenants from the startup and his own SoftBank Group Corp. to brainstorm strategy. He figured Oyo had the potential to disrupt both the staid hotel business and short-term apartment rentals in Japan, according to people i…

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  • The Antony Slumbers Podcast: 20 changes in the 2020s

    ANTONYSLUMBERS

    Thoughts, ideas and inspiration from Antony Slumbers. The audio versions (as read by me) of the posts I write for my blog at antonyslumbers.com – covering #SpaceAsAService, Innovation, Workplace, AI in Real Estate, PropTech, New Business Models, The Future of Property Management, and ‘Humans + Machines’.

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  • Israel risks falling behind in AI despite growth

    VENTUREBEAT

    Habana Labs. Mobileye. Hailo. Wix. There are more than 1,150 AI-focused startups in Israel, and that number is growing. Even so, some people within the government are concerned that the nation risks falling behind because it lacks a unified AI policy. AI policy refers to national strategies like the U.S.’s American AI Initiative and Canada’s Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy, which implement whole-government efforts to promote technological innovation. Implicitly, it incorporates a f…

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  • OnSiteIQ raises $4.5 million to improve construction safety using AI and 360-degree imagery

    VENTUREBEAT

    OnSiteIQ today announced that it has raised a $4.5 million series A round to grow its AI-powered safety analysis of 360-degree imagery from construction sites. In addition to supplying computer vision for risk assessment reports, the company’s platform is made to stitch together imagery so construction site managers can examine progress, skimming through footage for a guided tour like Google Street View. …

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  • Flex office platform essensys adds smart lock system

    PROPERTYWEEK

    Connect gives flex office operators a tool to manage their portfolio and the IT infrastructure, wifi and tech services inside each of their spaces. The new smart lock feature called Smart Access will allow customers to set up building access and controls in their flex office spaces, including access to meeting rooms. Landlords will be able to choose between tenants getting access remotely through an app, the tap of a mobile phone, access card or QR code.

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  • Jeffrey Kok of Mill Creek Residential Trust to Speak on Cybersecurity Risks in Multifamily Tech at Upcoming CREtech Austin Conference

    CRETECH

    New York, NY (February 25, 2020) —CREtech (cretech.com), the leading global conference and research company devoted to innovation in the built world, will be featuring many of the leading real estate owners/developers in the world who will be sharing their insights on tech and innovation at its first event in 2020 to be held in Austin, Texas on April 22 and 23rd.

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