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  • What can Generation Z teach workplaces about design?

    JLL Real Views

    From libraries decked out with the latest tech to meditation rooms to buzzing, multi-functional student centers, college campuses are designing environments to win the battle for the best students. As Generation Z (those born between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s) starts to move through to the workplace, today’s campuses will hold valuable clues on how Corporate America will need to design workspaces to keep the next generation of talent happy. In addition to being true digital natives, members of…

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  • Real estate industry is still wary about blockchain and cryptocurrencies

    The Real Deal – New York

    Entrepreneur William Skelley co-founded iFunding, an investment platform that helped pioneer real estate crowdfunding, in 2012. But the company quietly shuttered last year, while several other crowdfunding startups also fizzled. Now Skelley is trying to shake up real estate finance again, but this time he’s betting on something else: blockchain — electronic records that are encrypted and linked across a network of computers.Skelley recently founded the blockchain consultancy William Christopher …

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  • The Cashierless Concept Has Arrived, But Is It Here To Stay?

    Bisnow

    A new wave of technology is disrupting traditional retail, and it has nothing to do with online shopping (well, not much). Cashierless brick-and-mortar stores, a concept introduced by e-commerce titan Amazon, could completely upend the way shoppers engage with products and each other while shopping. Amazon Go in Seattle uses revolutionary technology that allows customers to walk into the store, sign into the store’s app, grab their groceries and simply walk out. No checkout, no checkout lines.  …

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  • CRE Opinion: Transformative Technology in Retail

    FrontBurner

    Commercial Real Estate CRE Opinion: Transformative Technology in Retail Retailer and property owners can easily get lost in data points. The key is recognizing that this information is not the answer, but rather a resource. By Steve Lieberman Published in Commercial Real Estate March 1, 2018 7:57 am SMS With the advancements of public transportation, automobiles, and the rapidly developing highway infrastructure of the 19th and 20th centuries, suburban sprawl was ignited as city dwellers escaped…

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  • Space Jam Data: Consumer Insights For Retail Real Estate

    CRETECH

    Space Jam creates geo-targeted campaigns on social media and asks local neighbors to share their input. The questions asked are simple but powerful and revealing: what stores do customers want and what do they think of a specific local shopping center or trade area. The incentives for voters: prizes. The platform guarantees over 1,000 actionable consumer opinions for any shopping center. Space Jam Data collects and synthesizes data through proprietary natural language processing software…

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  • 1 + 1 = 3!

    CRETECH

    I have been suggesting for a while that there is going to be a wave of consolidation in the CRE tech sector. It’s already happening. The major theme over the next twelve months is no doubt going to be all about M&A and JV’s. I would say the one word you will hear more than any other is, “collaboration”. It just makes sense. There are a lot of startups competing for still too little market share. And the end-user, the brokers or developers in particular, are telling us all that they are ov…

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  • Fifth Wall Invests In Industrious to Bring Best in Class Workplace-as-a-Service Platform to Strategic Landlords

    Medium

    The Largest Commercial Real Estate Landlords are Partnering with Industrious to Meet Current and Future Needs of Their Fortune 500 Tenants Large corporation’s desire for increased flexibility in their real estate portfolios and the intense talent war they are waged in are leading to a massive sea change in the commercial real estate landscape. In a CBRE survey of senior corporate real estate executives, 51% of respondents hoped to implement a shared-workplace model substantially or moderately a…

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  • Amazon is buying smart doorbell maker Ring

    Techcrunch

    With Nest’s first smart video doorbell right around the corner, Amazon is busy buying up the competition. After acquiring Blink just two months ago, Amazon is now acquiring Ring, makers of the self-titled Ring doorbell (plus a bunch of other security gear, like solar security cameras, floodlight cams and an in-home alarm system). GeekWire broke the rumor this afternoon, and we’ve just received independent confirmation. Details on the deal are still pretty light; the financial terms of…

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  • We Are Launching The Global Proptech Challenge.

    Duke Long Blog

    It comes from conversations, ideas, a passion for commercial real estate and a few brilliant people. If you have not read my previous article #REBNYTECH Hackathon 2017 Will Award A Total Of $75k In Cash And Prizes To Tech Innovators! And the follow-up #REBNYTech Hackathon GAUNTLET CHALLENGE Summary. Let me quickly get you up to speed. Following the success of the #REBNYTech Hackathon, those brilliant people namely Sandy Jacolow CIO of Silverstein Properties and Ryan Baxter of REBNY along with my…

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  • CRE Execs Grapple Over How the Industry Will Respond to Innovation

    Commercial Observer

    At MBACREF 2018, a handful of executives discussed ways in which technology and innovation might affect the industry. “To me, disruption is the result of taking a problem, standing it on its head and then solving it but with complete disregard for feasibility,” said Beekman AdvisorsManaging Partner Shekar Narasimhan. He said, in the old days, the best way to figure out how a car worked was to dismantle it and then put it back together—working backward, he called it. He said that over…

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