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  • Predictive Analytics is CRE’s Holy Grail

    CRETech

    You’ll hear the term “predictive analytics” (PA) used far and wide in a variety of sectors right now—business, intelligence, healthcare, and yes, commercial real estate, too. At our recent CRETech San Fran event, when we asked panelists for thoughts on the most important, impactful technology in CRE, CTOs of the largest brokerage firms universally agreed on predictive analytics. And while none of the firms use PA yet, every firm had begun working toward integrating PA into the core fabric of its…

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  • Facial recognition remains tempting but toxic for tech companies

    VENTUREBEAT

    In a blog post announcing support for the Asia Pacific AI for Social Good Research Network and highlighting Google’s efforts to use artificial intelligence (AI) to combat disease and natural disasters, Kent Walker, senior vice president of global affairs, wrote that Google wouldn’t offer a “general-purpose” facial recognition API through Google Cloud until the “challenges” had been “identif[ied] and address[ed].”…

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  • WeWork’s Newest Challenger: A Billion-Dollar High-Rise For Tech Startups—And Facebook

    FORBES

    Standing amid the debris of renovation—steel bars and exposed concrete beams, step ladders and workers’ lunch pails—Matthew Harrigan paints the scene. On the wide-open second floor, startup staff and big company tech workers will eat at long benches. They’ll take a break on the terrace, where Grand Central Terminal frames the view. And in the offices upstairs, they’ll get down to work, creating the country’s next great tech successes.

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  • A Year of CREtech (and Winning a RETA!)

    HQO

    This year, we’ve done our fair share of traveling around the country to various conferences and events, telling attendees all about the importance of tenant experience software in commercial real estate. One constant conference for us was CREtech – we followed Michael Beckerman and his team around, from Boston, to Chicago, to LA, to San Francisco, and just last week, to New York City. We enjoyed a years worth of content and panels, shook a bunch of hands, and witnessed the increase of tech momen…

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  • Building Engines Expands Board of Directors with CRE Industry Veteran Scott Morey

    PR WEB

    Building Engines, the commercial real estate (CRE) industry’s innovation leader for property operations platforms, and backed by Wavecrest Growth Partners, today announced the appointment of Scott Morey, Executive Director of GPG Advisers, to the company’s Board of Directors. With 30 years of global experience in the real estate industry, Morey has worked with numerous real estate owners, operators, developers, and advisors with the objective of maximizing the value of their holdings….

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  • Location, Collaboration and Technology Bring Businesses to Master-Planned Lake Nona

    BLUE PRINT – CBRE

    When a major corporation is looking to open a new headquarters, or a national training facility, or an expansive office complex, location weighs heavily on its decision. However, there are a host of other factors that corporations look to when deciding where to move. For companies doing business in Lake Nona—the 17-square-mile master-planned community in Orlando, Florida—location is just one of the many corporate-friendly perks of the area.

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  • Driverless vehicle startup Nuro begins delivering groceries to Kroger customers in Arizona

    VENTUREBEAT

    (Reuters) — U.S. supermarket chain Kroger said on Tuesday it has started using unmanned autonomous vehicles to deliver groceries in Scottsdale, Arizona in partnership with Silicon Valley startup Nuro. The delivery service follows a pilot program started by the companies in Scottsdale in August and involved Nuro’s R1, a custom unmanned vehicle. The R1 uses public roads and has no driver and is used to only transport goods. Kroger’s deal with Nuro underscores the stiff competition in the …

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  • Knotel Grabs Another Nearly 100K SF in Manhattan

    COMMERCIAL OBSERVER

    Less than a week after nailing down 80,000 square feet around Manhattan, fast-growing coworking company Knotel secured another nearly 100,000 square feet in five buildings, the company announced. In the largest deal, Knotel signed a 12-year lease for 37,868 square feet in the OTB Group’s 220 West 19th Street between Eighth and Seventh Avenues, according to a Knotel release and landlord broker Francesco Bardazzi of PD Properties. Knotel will take the third through fifth floors along with the n…

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  • Airbnb Buys French Property Management Company Luckey Homes

    BISNOW

    Airbnb continues to make moves signaling a desire for greater control over the properties listed on its platform. The home-sharing industry leader has acquired Luckey Homes, a company based in France that provides property management services for residences used as short-term rentals, Skift reports. Acquiring a company rather than partnering with it is somewhat of a rarity for Airbnb, according to Luckey, but the company’s location is less surprising.

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  • RightHand Robotics Raises $23 Million for Warehouse Automation Expansion

    WSJ

    Warehouse automation startup RightHand Robotics Inc. raised $23 million in a new funding round to add staff and develop more applications for its mechanical picking technology. The Somerville, Mass., company’s system, designed for e-commerce operations, incorporates artificial intelligence and cameras that perceive depth and color with a robotic arm that uses a polymer gripper with a suction cup to pick up objects. Customers include large retailers, pharmaceutical firms and logistics provider…

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