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  • A tale of two startups with ‘superstore’ ambitions: Robinhood and Cadre

    Techcrunch

    The buzzy startups Robinhood and Cadre are known for different things. Five-year-old Robinhood has established its reputation by offering commission-free stock trading, while three-year-old Cadre burst onto the scene with a real estate investing platform. Yet both have developed similar ambitions to become financial “superstores,” using the Amazon playbook of starting in one place, and quickly expanding into other terrain. “If you think about Amazon, they took the book model, built brand equity…

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  • Amazon brings Whole Foods deliveries to Atlanta, an HQ2 contender, plus San Francisco

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    Just a month after Amazon began to offer Whole Foods grocery deliveries via its Prime Now service in a handful of cities, the company announced today it’s expanding that service to two more key markets, San Francisco and Atlanta. The latter city is especially interesting, given that it’s on Amazon’s shortlist of potential HQ2 picks. The two new additions join existing markets for Whole Foods/Prime Now deliveries, Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas and Virginia Beach – a list that also includes some HQ2 …

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  • CommissionTrac Takes Over Your Back Office With Virtual Bookkeepers

    CRETECH

    Nobody said that accounting for commissions was fun, but the CommissionTrac platform takes away the tedium involved in the bookkeeping process. It instantly captures, accounts for and reports on any type of commission related to your business. It streamlines your back office accounting operations and commission management, without chaining you to Excel. CommissionTrac provides simple workflows and accounting journal entry automation, keeping the story on track after the deal closes. It also …

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  • In Landlord Wars, Giants Woo Office Tenants with Worker Perks

    NREI – National

    In an app-driven world of health, education and pampering, rival landlords battle to woo corporate tenants by appealing to their employees. (Bloomberg)—Find your Zo. That’s the invitation Tishman Speyer Properties LP has extended to workers at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, welcoming them to an app-driven world of health, education and pampering– and fighting off rival landlords in a battle to woo corporate tenants by appealing to their employees. By next month, workers in 8 of the 10 New Yor…

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  • Blockchain company Centrifuge wants every business to get paid on time

    Techcrunch

    The co-founders behind Centrifuge have previously created an essential company with Taulia. Now, they want to do it again, but on the blockchain. Taulia is a supply-chain financing company. It has raised over $150 million and moves billions of dollars per day. 97 out of the Fortune 100 companies use it to improve liquidity when it comes to accounts payable. Let’s say you’re a big industrial company and you have a client that represents 50 percent of your revenue. If you want to meet your cli…

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  • Five Takeaways From The ICSC OAC Summit

    CRETECH

    Just came back from a thrilling few days in breathtaking Dana Point, CA, where I was asked to curate and moderate a panel of the leading VC’s in the commercial real estate technology sector. Special thanks to my friend, Daniel Taub, who is the OAC Co-Chair and a hugely successful retail owner and developer. Also big thanks to my teammate Sarah Malcom, an ICSC alumn, who helped orchestrate my panel. My panel consisted of VC heavyweights, Rich Boyle of Canaan, Mark Goldberg of Index Venture…

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  • ‘Fintech’ Firms Take Bigger Bite of Manhattan’s Office Market

    WSJ

    Growth of leasing in the financial technology sector reflects maturity of city’s overall technology sector  Financial technology providers are gobbling up Manhattan office space as they expand operations and seek to tap the city’s growing tech labor force. The space leased by financial technology companies or units of larger companies totaled about 877,000 square feet last year, almost triple the amount in 2014, according to real-estate services firm JLL. …

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  • 5G Cell Service Is Coming. Who Decides Where It Goes?

    NY Times

    WASHINGTON — The future of cellular service is coming to a neighborhood near you. But who gets to decide when, where and how it gets delivered is still a heated fight. The new technology, known as 5G, delivers wireless internet at far faster speeds than existing cellular connections. But it also requires different hardware to deliver the signals. Instead of relying on large towers placed far apart, the new signals will come from smaller equipment placed an average of 500 feet apart in nei…

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  • Conductor Joins WeWork to Humanize Marketing

    Conductor

    Today, we announced Conductor is being acquired by WeWork. Conductor joining WeWork is a validation of everything we’ve all been working towards — showing businesses how to use their power to help customers solve problems, make decisions, and find solutions. It marks the incredible importance organic marketing now has as an industry. And I truly believe that we are an industry of revolutionaries: we make marketing a force for improving people’s lives. How we got here It started as an uph…

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  • Autonomous cars could peep around corners via bouncing laser

    Techcrunch

    Autonomous cars gather up tons of data about the world around them, but even the best computer vision systems can’t see through brick and mortar. But by carefully monitoring the reflected light of a laser bouncing off a nearby surface, they might be able to see around corners — that’s the idea behind recently published research from Stanford engineers. The basic idea is one we’ve seen before: It’s possible to discern the shape of an object on the far side of an obstacle by shining a laser or …

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