Smarter Buildings and Happier Residents: Spotlight Feature with Bixby

The #1 tenant & resident management platform for all property types & portfolio sizes, Bixby is an easy to use web and mobile app that combines all your resident relations activities into one place. Our team at CREtech recently caught up with Bixby to learn more about their site, strategy and vision. What does your site do? Bixby is a building amenity platform that makes it easy for property owners and managers to provide top quality service to their tenants and residents. Our …

Office Depot Launches Coworking Pilot, Expands Business Services Platform Workonomy

Business supply giant Office Depot has continued its push into the experiential with the launch of a coworking pilot program through its business services platform, Workonomy.

StarVR reveals its next-gen virtual reality headset with eye-tracking

The new StarVR head-mounted display debuted at the SIGGRAPH 2018 technology event in Vancouver today. The StarVR One, as it is called, adds a suite of new features and improves on some of the standout specs of the original device — although the company did not share details on the price.

WeWork just inked the largest co-working deal of 2018

WeWork just signed one of the largest co-working lease deals in Manhattan so far this year.

WeWork’s Newest Business Model Expands Into San Francisco

WeWork’s newest offering, HQ by WeWork, is already growing and will soon open a location in San Francisco. WeWork has leased 17,500 SF spanning four floors at 800 Market St., securing the company’s first HQ by WeWork location outside of New York City. The Invesco-owned 47K SF building is in Union Square and anchored by retailer Diesel, according to the San Francisco Business Times.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Autonomous Vehicle

The housing and community development sector is looking in the rearview mirror as it tries to tackle the affordability and opportunity challenges that face millions of Americans – and it is about to have a head-on collision with an autonomous vehicle.

These Tech Companies Are Fueling The Do-It-Yourself Renting Craze

Today’s consumers can purchase new clothes, groceries, electronics and even cars online at the click of a button — so why not lease apartments?

Salesforce plans to open-source the technology behind its Einstein machine-learning services

Salesforce is open-sourcing the method it has developed for using machine-learning techniques at scale — without mixing valuable customer data — in hopes other companies struggling with data science problems can benefit from its work.

Why Blending Online and In-Store Retail Is More Effective

GlobeSt.com talks with Melina Cordero, CBRE’s Americas Head of Retail Research and author of it’s Omnichannel Guide about a few of the report’s findings that go against the oft-heard narrative of a retail apocalypse.

Need a Quick Inspection of a 58-Story Tower? Send a Drone

As the head of a 700-year-old winemaking dynasty, Lamberto Frescobaldi is overseeing a construction project in one of his Tuscany vineyards using technology that would have seemed otherworldly to his ancestors: high-flying drones.