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  • Convene Grows Technology Business with Beco Acquisition

    Convene

    Convene, a rapidly-growing workplace hospitality platform, announced the acquisition of Beco, a mobile workplace analytics platform. Effective May 1st, 2018, Beco became a portfolio company under Convene’s expanding technology-enabled business. Beco’s CEO Tom Zampini will become the Chief Product Officer of Convene, working closely with Convene’s Chief Information Officer Jim Schorno to develop next-generation workplace technology solutions for commercial real estate landlords and enterprise com…

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  • Google Maps will soon give you better recommendations

    Techcrunch

    Google  will soon launch a new version of Google Maps that will give you more personalized recommendations than before. Google has long worked to make Maps seem more personalized, but since Maps is now about far more than just directions, the company is introducing new features to give you better recommendations for local places….

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  • Pizza will be served: Inside Travis Kalanick’s real estate revolution

    The Real Deal

    Covered in a mural and located across from a cemetery, a block-long single story warehouse in Pico-Union could easily go overlooked. But this West Washington Boulevard industrial site is ground zero for a nascent real estate venture that repurposes distressed assets, giving them new life in the new economy.

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  • Forget Everything You Know About CRE: 4 Ways Technology is Changing Everything

    CRETech

    Between 2015 and 2016, real estate tech attracted nearly 2 billion in investor dollars – 85% more money than the previous year. This explosion of money into the industry is the result of recent large scale adoption of new technologies in commercial real estate. With everything from lender paperwork processing to design plans backed by high tech tools, commercial real estate tech is changing everything you know about real estate. #1: Tons to Do with Data Data has been the word of the year f…

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  • AI Could Kill 2.5 Million Financial Jobs—And Save Banks $1 Trillion

    Fast Company

    Say goodbye to your bank teller and  your insurance sales agent. Dozens of financial services jobs like these are starting to be replaced by technology.  Over the next 15 years, AI will take even more of these types of jobs, according to research firm Autonomous’s new report.

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  • Uber Unveils the Flying Taxi it Wants to Rule the Skies

    Wired

    IF YOU TRUST the folks with their eyes tilted upward and their hands waving in the air, flying taxis could be a traffic panacea, leveraging the third dimension to make room for everyone. Uber is among the most fervent believers, and today the company revealed the vehicle it hopes will realize this congestion killer: the aspirationally—if not inspirationally—named Common Reference Model….

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  • Knotel inks new 23K sf lease in Chelsea

    The Real Deal

    Knotel has landed another new lease in New York City, grabbing 23,000 square feet of space in Savanna’s Chelsea building at 31 West 27th Street, according to sources familiar with the deal….

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  • 5 Ways Amazon Is Reinventing Construction And Development

    Bisnow

    With billions to burn and ambition to spare, Amazon is remaking retail in its image. The Seattle-based behemoth also seems keen to reinvent large parts of construction and development, as detailed by Construction News.

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  • The Brokerage Real Estate Tech Race: JLL Adds Workplace Planning Tool InSite To Its Arsenal

    Bisnow

    In another move to diversify its offerings to provide clients with a breadth of services to cover their real estate needs, JLL has launched a new workplace planning tool called JLL InSite.

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  • Does the Future of Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Look Like Residential Brokerage?

    CRETech

    The commercial real estate tech sector is laggard when it comes to innovation in tech. No disrespect. It just is. Not a bad thing or a good thing. Makes sense too. Residential is consumer-focused, meaning its customers are very mobile and social media-friendly. Also, residential saw the first true online open-sourced MLS with the creation of Zillow. In addition, large-scale companies like Compass and Redfin have been created based on a tech-first model. Sites like Open Door and Pillow are…

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