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  • Formstack Acquires Electronic Signature Software, InsureSign

    FORMSTACK

    Leader in workplace productivity expands document management capabilities and increases focus on insurance and finance markets FISHERS, INDIANA – July 10, 2019 – Formstack, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company with a mission to transform the way people collect information and put it to work, today announces the acquisition of Charleston-based eSignature software provider, InsureSign. With the acquisition, Formstack further enhances its workplace productivity platform to allow users to easi…

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  • Tech Moves: Ex-Zillow COO Amy Bohutinsky dives into venture capital; Amplero founder joins Zulily

    GEEKWIRE

    Amy Bohutinsky, the former chief operating officer of Zillow, has joined venture capital equity firm TCV, where she will focus on late-stage consumer tech investments. Bohutinsky was an early Zillow employee and spent 13 years at the online real estate giant in a variety of leadership roles including chief marketing officer before leaving in January. She’s still on the company’s board of directors and is also on the board at Gap. Bohutinsky was previously a board director at HotelTonight and …

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  • New York City Real Estate Savors a Tech Boom

    WSJ

    Big technology companies are doubling down on New York City by adding millions of square feet in office space and creating thousands of new jobs, with few aftereffects from Amazon.com Inc. ’s nixing of a Queens headquarters.

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  • New Division, Colliers Project Leaders | USA Created

    GLOBEST

    NEW YORK CITY—Colliers International Group has created a new division, Colliers Project Leaders | USA. It consolidates services of project management, development management, planning, advisory, commissioning and energy practices into one service group covering the US, aligning with its work in Canada. The new platform will better enable the commercial real estate services and investment management firm to assemble the right teams with expertise, market knowledge and connections to provide be…

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  • Sheila Samii Matuscak joins CRE tech platform Coeo

    RE JOURNALS

    CRE veteran Sheila Samii Matuscak has joined Coeo, a tech-enabled online marketplace designed for brokers and tenants to find and share commercial real estate. She and Kim Ford, LEED AP, will act as co-CEOs of the firm, which launched earlier this year.

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  • Staudt to Head New Dispositions Services Group for Savills

    GLOBEST

    RUTHERFORD, NJ—Commercial brokerage firm Savills reports it has launched a new specialization that will be focused on property disposition services. The new unit will be headed by dispositions expert and industry veteran Gerard J. Staudt, who has been hired as a senior managing director and head of dispositions, North America. Staudt will be based at Savills operations in Rutherford, NJ. The dispositions unit will be exclusively focused on delivering timely cashflow for clients’ surplus re…

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  • Watch Out Walmart: Amazon Is Turning Prime Day Into An Offline Event Too

    BISNOW

    Amazon’s Prime Day is coming on July 15 and 16 this year, and it has already taken it into the physical realm through Whole Foods. In doing so, it has once again forced its biggest competitors to play catch-up. In the five years of the promotion, Amazon has created a sales juggernaut on an otherwise unremarkable weekday in July. Even Black Friday is losing some of its luster compared to Prime Day; the impact is so significant that dozens of major retailers have launched their own events on th…

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  • Part II: WeWork + Waltz = Building Take Over

    MEDIUM

    I wrote last week about my initial perspective on this acquisition which was all about validation for the importance of Access Control Technology to Commercial Real Estate (CRE) industry. But step back a moment and lets take a look at the broader impact of this deal. WeWork just declared themselves. This is the shot across the bow that should wake up the CRE industry to the fact that WeWork aims to take over your buildings. With WeWork’s acquisition of building access control and visitor manage…

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  • Modular Construction Could Change Development in L.A.

    GLOBEST

    Los Angeles developers are taking note of the Clement Canopy buildings in Singapore. The two 40-story towers are the largest modular construction buildings in the world, and set a new standard of the potential for modular building. In Los Angeles, modular construction has the ability to revolutionize new construction, and the Clement Canopy buildings are a great example of the possibilities.

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  • Airbnb, pre-IPO

    THE REAL DEAL

    Airbnb has been an almost perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” culture since it burst onto the scene in 2008. The company — which claims to have more than 6 million listings globally (a number it says is more rooms than the six largest hotel groups combined) — became very popular very fast with the public. But it’s also faced aggressive opposition from the city government and the hotel industry since the moment it landed in New York. And that ire has not let up….

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