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  • The Self-Driving Car Industry’s Biggest Turning Point Yet

    NY Times

    Waymo said it would order up to 20,000 vehicles from Jaguar Land Rover in the next two years for its self-driving consumer ride service. Each week, Kevin Roose, technology columnist at The New York Times, discusses developments in the tech industry, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two. One perk — or hazard, I suppose — of being a technology writer for the past few years has been getting invited to ride in a bunch of autonomous vehicles. I’ve been shuttled arou…

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  • Venture Capital Investments in Real Estate Tech – Q1 2018

    RETech

    The global real estate tech (proptech) market took a hit in Q1 2018.  Total investments in the real estate tech startups fell to $1.4 billion, a 26 percent decline since Q1 2017 and a dramatic 75.5 percent since Q4 2017. Coupled with the lack of newly formed startups entering the market, 18 in Q1 2018, and the lack of market stability, the decline in venture capital investments is a cause for concern for investors and market participants. While many believe that 2017 was an exception to th…

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  • Fintech Firm GreenSky Files Confidentially for IPO

    WSJ

    Financial-technology firm GreenSky LLC has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a sizable initial public offering that could come as soon as this summer, according to people familiar with the matter. The Atlanta company, which operates a lending platform that enables retailers, health-care providers and home contractors to offer loans to their customers, could seek to raise $1 billion at a valuation of roughly $5 billion, some of the people said. A…

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  • Purplebricks parachutes into NYC disavowing broker fees

    The Real Deal

    The discount residential brokerage Purplebricks is launching in New York today with a simple message: In 2018, why are consumers still paying a 6 percent fee to sell their home? “Our view is that in 2018 no one should be paying 5, 6 or 7 percent to sell their home, given the changing consumer behavior and access to information and viable alternatives,” said Eric Eckardt, the company’s U.S. CEO. “Look at other verticals today. If you’re going on vacation, you’re not going to a travel agent….

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  • Using Data To Optimize The Leasing Process

    Bisnow

    Data-driven technology has entered the commercial real estate sphere. Several industries use data and predictive analytics to better understand what customers want. Political strategists collect and analyze data on voter demographics, and e-commerce platforms study consumer spending habits to market products to consumers based on individual interests. Now, CRE is catching up. Landlords are leveraging leasing and tenant health data to drive more revenue within their portfolios. Leasing and asset …

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  • Start-Up Star Hello Alfred is Expanding

    WSJ

    AMONG THE MORE brutal realities of adulthood is the list of tasks and to-dos that, no matter how privileged or organized you may happen to be, never quite melts away. There will always be more groceries to be purchased, dry cleaning to be dropped off, candles and soaps and wine bottles to be procured. Now imagine a life wherein the weight of all of these microburdens has magically lifted. Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck, both 32, set out to achieve just that sorcery when they launched the…

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  • If There Was One Real Estate Conference (Other Than Mine ?) That I Would Attend, This Is The One…

    CRETech

    MIT World Real Estate Forum. I have been fortunate to meet so many smart, forward-thinking and really decent people in the commercial real estate tech space. Literally, on a daily basis, I am blown away by the caliber of people I meet in this field. And one of the most impressive people and organizations I have connected with is Steve Weikal, Director of Alumni Relations at the MIT Center for Real Estate in Boston. Steve and I struck a partnership earlier this year to have our two organ…

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  • The Global Bike-Share Boom: Dockless Models Look To Solve Urban Commutes & Transit Access

    CBInsights

    Since their introduction in 2015, dockless bike-sharing systems have moved from East to West as they sweep through urban transportation markets. Bike-sharing systems have been around for a couple of decades. But in the past few years, they’ve gained much more prominence as new tech-infused models began gaining traction in Asia. Viable bike-sharing models first began to emerge in Europe through public-private partnerships in the late 20th Century. These bike-sharing system…

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  • Tech Thinks It Has a Fix for the Problems It Created: Blockchain

    NY Times

    SAN FRANCISCO — Worried about someone hacking the next election? Bothered by the way Facebook and Equifax coughed up your personal information? The technology industry has an answer called the blockchain — even for the problems the industry helped to create. The first blockchain was created in 2009 as a new kind of database for the virtual currency Bitcoin, where all transactions could be stored without any banks or governments involved. Now, countless entrepreneurs, companies and governm…

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  • Airbnb for cars is here. And the rental car giants are not happy.

    Washington Post

    They have fleets with hundreds of thousands of vehicles and command multibillion-dollar streams of revenue. But in the rapidly shifting transportation landscape, even the Goliaths of the rental car industry — some of the best-known brands in the world — worry about being left behind. That may explain why some of the largest rental car companies have spent several years waging a quiet legislative war against start-ups led by a company called Turo that are trying to change the way people rent an…

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