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  • SoftBank’s next bet: $940M into autonomous delivery startup Nuro

    TECHCRUNCH

    Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup, has raised $940 million in financing from the SoftBank Vision Fund, a whopping amount that will be used to expand its delivery service, add new partners, hire employees and scale up its fleet of self-driving bots. Nuro has raised more than $1 billion from partners, including SoftBank, Greylock Partners and Gaorong Capital. “We’ve spent the last two and a half years building an amazing team, launching our first unmanned service, working with incredible…

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  • CREtech Announces WeWork Leadership Team to Serve on Panel for LA Conference on March 27-28

    THE NEWS FUNNEL

    New York, NY (January 31, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com), the largest event, data and content platform covering the commercial real estate tech industry, announces first keynote session for its upcoming conference in Los Angeles on March 27-28. The session, “Inside WeWork” will feature four of WeWork (The We Company) top executives from their Real Estate Partnerships, Real Estate Development, M&A and Powered by We divisions to discuss how their company has made history impacting the commercia…

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  • It’s the Real World—With Google Maps Layered on Top

    WSJ

    My phone knows where I am at all times: There’s just no hiding from that blue dot in Google Maps. Well, except for when the blue dot thinks I am across the street, or inside the restaurant two doors down. More than once, blue-dot issues have caused me to walk a considerable way in the wrong direction. In fairness, even when GPS is screwy, it’s typically close enough for driving. But when a drone’s dropping a package on your stoop, close isn’t good enough. Self-driving cars can’t muddle throu…

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  • Cities Big And Small Race To Be Smart

    BISNOW

    “Smart city” might be a real estate industry buzzword, but it is a concept that has grown well beyond the promises of early adopters. The drive to install smart technology in an urban setting is going to accelerate in the coming years. Smart city tech worldwide spending was $80B in 2016, and is forecast to grow to $135B by 2021, according to a report by International Data Corp. A smart city is one that uses IT — especially the Internet of Things — to enhance the quality of urban services: …

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  • How Tech Is Transforming the Way Lenders Do Business

    GLOBEST

    For commercial real estate lenders, the process of uncovering, organizing, and interpreting data on a property’s mortgage or debt history has always been a time-consuming and error-prone endeavor. Over the last several years, however, the industry has witnessed the emergence of CRE technology capable of quickly surfacing and aggregating property data points—including debt history and lender information—from a variety of disparate sources.

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  • Multifamily Owners Jump In The Short-Term Rental Game

    BISNOW

    When Harold Wu moved from Toronto to Baltimore for a new job, the first thing on his to-do list was to get a place to live. As he embarked on his apartment search, the T Rowe Price senior vice president of procurement decided to book a hotel in Baltimore for a week in September. “I looked at the usual suspects: Hilton, Marriott, Brookshire Suites, Residence Inn and so on. Then I stumbled upon WhyHotel on the internet.” WhyHotel operates temporary hotels within multifamily buildings during …

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  • Webinar: Introducing the CRE Collaborative, with Andreas Senie

    CRE COLLABORATIVE

    Join us for a live webinar with Andreas Senie, founder of start up, CRE Collaborative. The CRE Collaborative platform removes the barriers between people, their data and the technologies they use and allows real estate professionals to get back to shaking more hands and closing more deals. QuantumListing have formed a partnership which is an important step toward our goal of bringing greater cooperation and compatibility within the commercial real estate and CRE tech industries….

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  • The Top CRE Professionals You Should Follow On Twitter

    CLIENTLOOK

    The Top CRE Professionals You Should Follow On Twitter Are you using Twitter to market your commercial real estate business? If not, you should be! Twitter is a free source of marketing for your company and a powerful way to reach potential clients and other industry professionals. The people below have mastered the art of “tweeting” and combine useful commercial real estate information with a little fun mixed in. Here’s a list of some of my favorite CRE accounts to follow:

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  • Found. and Collision8 merge in major co-working consolidation

    E27

    Two of Singapore’s most prominent co-working spaces, Found. and Collision8, announced today a merger that will rebrand the company into Found8. The merger will combine the two company’s investment war chest and give Found8 US$20 million of financing. The first major event post-merger will be the impending opening of a new 22,000 square feet space in Kuala Lumpur. The Kuala Lumpur project is part of a drive to build a large startup ecosystem in the heart of Sentral Station, a strategy that …

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  • Top Artificial Intelligence Experts to Participate in Panel Discussion at CREtech Los Angeles on March 27-28

    CREtech

    Largest conference in commercial real estate tech attracts world-class speakers for its upcoming L.A. conference New York, NY (February 11, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com), the largest event, data and content platform covering the commercial real estate tech industry, announced a  new panel session for its upcoming conference in Los Angeles on March 27-28. The session, “A.I. and the Coming Revolution in Commercial Real Estate” will feature the top experts on Artificial Intelligence in the secto…

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