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Airbnb Inc. hired Greg Greeley, the head of Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime business, as president of its main home-rental unit.
Greeley, who had been at Amazon for more than 18 years, helped the retail giant expand the Prime membership servic...
Uber’s self-driving trucks are now delivering commercial freight in Arizona, the company announced on Tuesday. This marks the beginning of the company realizing the ambitions it laid out when acquiring self-driving trucking startup, Otto, in Au...
Isaac Oates runs a startup that’s looking to be a complete suite of operational tools like human resources and payroll for businesses — but he and his team initially didn’t get why users kept asking better reporting tools over and over again.
It’s indica...
For a long time believing in wellness in buildings took an act of faith. That is changing fast, and as it becomes easier to measure the benefits, the philosophy of wellness is spreading. Rapid advances in technology is allowing building owners and tenants to measure far more accurately the impact their buildings have on the people that use them, for better and for worse. Courtesy of Landid The...
3 Reasons to Watch RE Fintech Startups in 2018 March 07, 2018/ Lindsey Imperatore Fintech is sweeping the globe. In the real estate sector alone, according to Deloitte’s recent survey, real estate tech startups grew from just 176 new businesses a decade ago to more than 1,200 in 2017. Investments have increased more than tenfold in RE tech and fintech startups over the last ten years. With all o...
The blockchain technology that underpins cryptocurrencies could change the way property is bought and sold, experts say, and Sweden’s land registry authority is likely to become one of its pioneers.
A Pioneer in Real Estate Blockchain Emerges in Europe
District of Columbia A rendering of the proposed Amazon HQ2 site on the Anacostia Riverfront, including parcels in Capitol Riverfront, Buzzard Point and Poplar Point Amazon officials spent last week touring sites in the D.C. region and meeting with local leaders as it considers the area for its second headquarters. The officials toured sites in Northern Virginia early in the week, D.C. in the midd...
Uber’s big push to dominate the trucking industry took a leap forward today with the announcement that the ride-hailing giant is now operating its fleet of self-driving trucks on its freight-hauling app. The shipments are taking place in Arizona, where the ride-hailing giant is also testing out its robot taxis. Uber said it is using a transfer hub model, in which the trucks drive ...