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  • QuantumListing and SharpLaunch Announce Listing Syndication Partnership

    PR NEWSWIRE

    WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Oct. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — SharpLaunch and QuantumListing have announced the immediate availability of their listing syndication partnership. SharpLaunch clients’ listings can now be found on QuantumListing.com and are updated in real time as the listings are modified. QuantumListing does not have a paywall for searching listings, so everyone is welcome to find the information need to contact the listing agents and owners to do deals more efficiently….

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  • WeWork Grabs 46K SF for HQ by WeWork in Soho and NoMad

    COMMERCIAL OBSERVER

    In the biggest deal, WeWork signed a 10-year lease for 34,500 square feet in Stellar Management’s 50 West 28th Street between Avenue of the Americas and Broadway, according to spokespeople for WeWork and the landlord. WeWork will take over the third, fifth and 12th floors of the 16-story building for an HQ by WeWork to open next year, as The Real Deal first reported….

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  • Real estate tech firm Flip inks lease on Grand Street in Williamsburg

    THE REAL DEAL

    Flip, a real estate tech firm meant to help renters sublet their apartments, has landed a 5,800-square-foot lease at 357 Grand Street in Williamsburg….

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  • Brex has partnered WeWork, AWS and more for its new rewards program

    TECHCRUNCH

    Brex, the corporate card built for startups, unveiled its new rewards program today. The billion-dollar company, which announced its $125 million Series Cthree weeks ago, has partnered with Amazon Web Services, WeWork, Instacart, Google Ads, SendGrid, Salesforce Essentials, Twilio, Zendesk, Caviar, HubSpot, Orrick, Snap, Clerky and DoorDash to give entrepreneurs the ability to accrue and spend points on services and products they use regularly….

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  • CRE Opinion: Smart Cities Need Smart Buildings

    D MAGAZINE

    Real estate developers and urban planners are building out the digital infrastructure necessary to support smart cities that will allow us to leverage big data and technology.

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  • AI Guru Andrew Ng on the Job Market of Tomorrow

    WSJ

    The co-founder of Google’s deep-learning research team on the promise of a conditional basic income, the need for a skills-based education system and what CEOs don’t understand about artificial intelligence Sentient artificial intelligence may take hundreds of years to develop, but AI is already beginning to transform nearly every industry, says Andrew Ng, a pioneer in the field….

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  • Waymo obtains California’s first fully driverless car permit

    VENTURE BEAT

    Waymo has obtained a driverless testing permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), it announced in a Medium post on Tuesday. It’s the first company to do so, and it gives the Google spinoff the green light to test its self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans on the Golden State’s public roads.

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  • Compass taps Rory Golod as GM of New York

    THE REAL DEAL

    Rory Golod — who for two years was Compass CEO Robert Reffkin’s right-hand-man — has been tapped as general manager of the firm’s New York region. As GM, Golod will oversee Compass’ 1,400 agents and 18 offices in New York, where the SoftBank-backed brokerage has been increasing its brick-and-mortar footprint.

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  • Grocers Enlist Robots to Chase E-Commerce

    WSJ

    Grocers are stocking their warehouses with robots and artificial intelligence to increase efficiency as competition for consumer spending on food picks up. Robots are relatively new to the food industry, where customer interaction is common and many goods like fruit are fragile and perishable. Startups are vying to sell supermarkets an array of robots that perform different tasks. Venture-capital firms have invested more than $1.2 billion in grocery technology this year, according to PitchBoo…

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  • JLL Spark Invests in AI-Powered Workspace Optimization

    CP EXECUTIVE

    JLL Spark, the proptech investment arm of commercial real estate services firm JLL, continues to show its support for startups with another move through its JLL Spark Global Venture Fund. The firm recently led a $1.5 million strategic investment in VergeSense, provider of an AI-Powered sensor-as-a-service platform for commercial real estate.

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