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  • Amazon patents a plan to have packages ride public buses for customer pickup

    GEEKWIRE

    Amazon’s inventors have suggested using drone-dispensing trucks, rail cars and airships to deliver packages, but one of the company’s latest patents lays out a more mundane route for future customers: picking up their purchases from public buses. The patent for a mobile package pickup system was published on Tuesday, almost five years after inventor Kushal Mukesh Bhatt’s patent application was filed. Ironically, Bhatt now works for Walmart, one of Amazon’s biggest retail competitors. As de…

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  • CRE companies afraid of technology? New report says that view is fiction

    RE JOURNALS

    Remember that old criticism that commercial real estate brokers, developers and construction companies were afraid to invest in new technology, even software and systems that could help them boost efficiency and reduce costs? That criticism isn’t fair today. A new survey of commercial real estate executives shows that they and the firms they lead are embracing technology today. They’re especially focusing on automation technologies that will make the process of selling, investing in and build…

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  • Where is augmented reality going in 2019 — and beyond?

    VENTUREBEAT

    In 2018, augmented reality started to heat up as Magic Leap released its much-anticipated headset, paving the way for others to explore and support massive AR development on their platforms. AR continues to be a rapidly growing space, as more tech companies continue building out their own competitive technologies — including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. The new year will be an important one for the software and hardware components of AR to shine. Here are some predictions for where …

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  • Top VCs in Commercial Real Estate Tech to Join Panel at CREtech Los Angeles on March 27-28

    CREtech

    Largest conference in commercial real estate tech attracts leading speakers for its LA conference New York, NY (February 1, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com), the largest event, data and content platform covering the commercial real estate tech industry, announces new panel session for its upcoming conference in Los Angeles on March 27-28. The session, “Top VCs in Commercial Real Estate Tech” will feature top executives from the leading venture capital firms to discuss the incredible $10 billion …

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  • Camber Creek’s Jeff Berman Talks PropTech and the Future of Tech

    REALTY BIZ NEWS

    According to Jeff Berman, General Partner at the venture capital firm, Camber Creek, one in three recent home buyers made an offer before even seeing a home in person. This revolutionary trend brought about by the adoption of cutting edge PropTech, is one of the subjects Realty Biz News discussed with Berman last week.

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  • Why Pop-Up Warehousing is the Way Forward for Retail’s Final-Mile Delivery

    COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL

    The way consumers shop has completely transformed over the last two decades. Now, consumers turn ever increasingly to the internet for purchases—from household necessities like groceries and toilet paper, to big-ticket items like couches and mattresses—the internet is a one-click solution to consumer wants and needs. But online shopping has also changed consumer expectations for how and when they will receive their items. With seemingly endless competition to choose from online, customers exp…

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  • Darkstore raises $7.5 million Series A round for its same-day fulfillment center

    TECHCRUNCH

    Darkstore, a technology-driven fulfillment solution for companies like Nike and others, has raised a $7.5 million Series A round. With the additional funding in hand, Darkstore plans to expand its fulfillment center into more categories. Currently, Darkstore fulfills products for brands in the areas of footwear, home and consumer electronics. With the funding, Darkstore will expand into lifestyle, health and beauty and athletic leisure, Darkstore founder and CEO Lee Hnetinka told TechCrunch ove…

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  • Modular Construction Seizing Moment In Hospitality

    BISNOW

    Board-by-board, nail-by-nail, stick-built construction has dominated how hotels have been built in the United States for more than 100 years, but that could become a thing of the past. As the hotel industry enters the second decade of the 21st century, pre-fabricated or modular construction is picking up steam. “There’s a movement not just in the hotel industry but across other disciplines that we’re starting to see a trend … you can build your projects faster, produce higher-quality rooms…

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  • Coworking Company Spaces Enters Santa Monica Media Market With 69K-SF Lease

    COMMERCIAL OBSERVER

    Spaces has signed a new 69,208-square-foot lease at the Water Garden at 1620 26th Street in Santa Monica—marking the coworking company’s first location in the Santa Monica Media District, according to a release from CBRE, which represented both sides in the deal. The lease is for 10 years. CBRE declined to provide further lease details. CBRE’s Amanda Calof, Patti Gilbert and Pat McRoskey represented the landlord, a group of institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, in t…

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  • Techstars launches program to assist growing startup communities, starting in Buffalo

    VENTUREBEAT

    Techstars, the Boulder, Colorado-based organization best known for its global accelerator programs, today announced it is launching a “multi-year startup ecosystem development program,” beginning in Buffalo, New York. Details about the project are slim, but Techstars is hiring someone who will be based out of Buffalo to help the startup community host more events, conduct surveys and assessments to pinpoint areas for improvement, and connect local entrepreneurs with mentors and graduates of T…

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