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  • We Analyzed 6 E-Commerce Brands Breaking Into Brick-And-Mortar To Understand The Secrets To Their Success — Here’s What We Learned

    CB INSIGHTS

    In today’s digital age, the dominant narrative is that e-commerce has fully eclipsed physical retail. The truth looks a bit different. WHERE IS THIS DATA COMING FROM? The most potent symbol of the ascendance of e-commerce and downfall of physical retail is, of course, Amazon. By making a wider range of goods available for a lower cost directly to consumers, Amazon has eviscerated the business models of major department stores….

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  • The big picture: Tech wants to make running errands easier

    AXIOS

    Retailers are increasingly using technology like geolocation mapping and virtual shopping assistants in an attempt to increase shoppers’ loyalty. Why it matters: “Physical retail is not dead. Boring retail is,” Steve Dennis, strategic adviser on retail growth, wrote in Forbes. Consumer data is key to understanding consumer preferences and lifestyles. The trick for brick-and-mortar retailers now is to figure out how to use data and technology, while also personalizing the physical shopping exper…

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  • 8 Apps to Boost the Tenant Experience

    CRETech

    Why to tenants stay or go? The experience. Landlords master retention and recruitment by delivering top-notch user experiences. Space is not just a commodity. Tenants view their office, retail centers, and apartments as a service. The following commercial real estate apps help facility managers craft winning tenant experiences through maintenance and communication. #1. Comfy Comfy delivers an intuitive mobile app to connect employees to their buildings. Its clients control different aspects of…

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  • The Best New Media Site I Have Seen in a Long Long Time Isn’t from a Media Company…

    CRETech

    JLL Real Views As a perennial news junkie, I try and read as much as I can on a daily basis. I have maintained the same routine for years. I am very disciplined about it. I wake early, before my wife and kids and before the chaos of the day begins. Before the sun rises, most days. It’s the best part of the day. It’s when I can think with the most clarity and focus. My reading is typically one hour a day. Seven days a week. Without exception. I also read on my iPad exclusively. I start w…

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  • CREtech and Newly Launched India PropTech Alliance Announce Partnership

    CRETECH

    The Leading Commercial Real Estate Tech Platform in the U.S. and Built World Technology Alliance of India Structure International Partnership NEW YORK, July 31, 2018 – CREtech(cretech.com), the leading event, content and connectivity platform for the commercial real estate industry, announced today a collaboration on events, content and research with Built World Technology Alliance (builtworldtech.com). Built World Technology Alliance is a collective who share in a mission to accelerate the dig…

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  • Behind WeWork’s push to capture the elusive mid-sized tenant

    THE REAL DEAL

    When WeWork started off in 2010, it made a name for itself as a solution for freelancers and small companies in search of a desk. In recent years, it started targeting big corporations as customers. Now, the co-working giant is turning its attention to the office market’s forgotten middle class: firms with 10 to 250 employees. “You’re going to start to see us do more and more stuff that’s going to target this business segment,” said WeWork’s chief growth officer David Fano.

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  • Data equals big business on Wall Street and for proptech companies

    THE REAL DEAL

    As proptech firms search for data evangelists, the likes of which have drastically changed real estate, Wall Street is ready to pay big bucks for transformative information. Alternative data–often obscure, custom-sourced data sets–are selling for tens of thousands of dollars among hedge funds looking for an edge, according to CNBC. As of 2016, buying research accounted for transactions valuing about $200 million and business volume was expected to double by 2021….

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  • WeWork is just one facet of SoftBank’s bet on real estate

    TECH CRUNCH

    This week WeWork announced that its Chinese subsidiary — WeWork China — raised an additional $500 million in capital in a deal led by SoftBank, Temasek Holdings and others. The deal reportedly values the Chinese branch of the shared workspace and real estate management company at $5 billion, up from $1 billion (post-money) in the round WeWork China announcedalmost a year ago in July 2017. SoftBank rarely doubles down on a particular company. At time of writing, SoftBank itself has made 175 in…

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  • Jacolow makes move to Meridian Capital Group

    CONNECTED REAL ESTATE MAGIZINE

    New York City-based Meridian Capital Group recently named Sandy Jacolow as its Chief Information Officer (CIO). Jacolow previously held the same position at Silverstein Properties for seven years. While he was Silverstein Properties, Jacolow oversaw the technology initiatives that supported the company’s financial, operational and development activities. Jacolow is also a founding member of the REBNY Technology Committee and chairperson of its Cyber Technology Security Committee. Founded i…

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  • Half way between an Airbnb and hotel, meet the boutique apart-hotel

    THE REAL DEAL

    A new cadre of hoteliers are championing the concept of apart-hotels, properties set up for longer-term stays, and they credit Airbnb with helping them see the light. Because of the short-term rental giant, the idea “that there could be some advantages to a residence versus a room,” has proliferated and sparked inspiration in the minds of people like Larry Korman, president of apart-hotel brand AKA, according to Bloomberg.

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