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  • Robots are spreading through the workforce. Will they crowd out humans?

    Baltimore Sun – The Real Estate Wonk

    The Swingobot 2000 was showing off, navigating a busy hallway at Sinai Hospital to scrub the floor. Then Tug, a smaller robot, glided up unexpectedly from behind, returning to the pharmacy after delivering medication to nurses. Tug was programmed to detect people and other obstacles in its path. It stopped, maneuvered around Swingobot, then continued on its way. For the Baltimore hospital, and for the robots, too, it was just another day at work. Before Tug, “we had pharmacy technicians and cour…

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  • H-E-B acquires Texas-based on-demand company Favor

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    H-E-B has acquired Favor, the on-demand delivery service out of Texas. Favor will continue to operate as an independent wholly-owned subsidiary of the grocery chain. The company first launched in 2014 at SXSW, bringing a Texas-tailored approach to on-demand delivery. While many on-demand services, such as Postmates, focus on high-density areas like NYC and San Francisco, Favor built a product that serves the sprawling cities of Texas. Users could order food from a restaurant, or any item from a …

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  • tenantcloud helps ditch the paperwork for landlords, tenants and service providers

    CRETECH

    One of the many blessings of the digital age: the end of paperwork. The TenantCloud rental and accounting management platform digitizes paperwork obligations, making it accessible in one location. It also helps service providers market their businesses to both landlords and tenants.Available on any device, TenantCloud provides landlords with one-click postings on multiple-listings sites, online applications, tenant screening, automatic invoicing, online payments, full accounting, photo-based mai…

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  • WeWork Relaunches Its Accelerator Program WeWork Labs

    AllWork

    Facebook Twitter Linkedin In 2011 WeWork ran an accelerator-like program, WeWork Labs, which was left unattended while the company focused on building its portfolio. This week, the program has been relaunched in New York City with plans to open a further 27 labs in 2018. WeWork Labs hopes to provide access to a “great educational network” for startups. Over the past few years, WeWork has constantly been a source of news across the world. The coworking giant has grown exponentially, boasting toda…

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  • Real estate startups make a splash on Forbes Fintech 50

    Inman News – Features

    Real estate startups have a palpable presence on the third annual Forbes Fintech 50, featuring the top companies in the financial technology (fintech) sector. According to Forbes, $27.4 billion was invested in fintech startups in 2017, which marked a 16 percent increase from the previous year, and with seven real estate startups among the top 50, there’s a lot of money being spent to disrupt the industry. “It’s not surprising that there are so many real estate financial technology companies popu…

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  • New Books–February 2018

    NAR – Information Services Blog

    New Books–February 2018 Posted in What's New, by Anne-Marie Siudzinski on February 15, 2018 NAR members and Association staff can borrow up to six electronic books, digital audios and/or videos at no cost, through the Virtual Library eBooks Collection. Members can also borrow up to three books for 30 days from the Library Catalog for a nominal fee of $10. Call Information Services at 800.874.6500 for assistance.   High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard Whether you want to get more done…

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  • betaworks Studios is a membership club for builders

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    betaworks, the 10-year-old startup studio out of NYC, is today introducing a brand new business in the form of betaworks Studios. Think of betaworks Studios as a membership club for builders, offering entrepreneurs, artists, enginneers/developers, and creatives the space to work on their projects and get to know one another. Builders is the word that betaworks uses to describe its core demographic for Studios. The premise for betaworks Studios is to give developers and creative-focused individua…

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

    The Commercial Observer – Commercial Real Estate

    “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 Advisors Managing 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 time this same model has taken simple ideas and elevated them into success in business. But, sometimes innovation can rattle an …

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  • DroneBase raises $12M in Series B funding, announces enterprise AR tool

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    If you have purchased a drone in the last year or two, there’s a high likelihood that it only emerges from your gadget closet a few times per year, if that. That probably doesn’t leave you feeling too great about your purchase, but it also leaves an expensive piece of professional equipment lying dormant that a lot of people could use. DroneBase is a startup that connects drone users with commercial missions so that they can keep the dust from settling on their flying funcopters while also honin…

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  • the prop tech movement is spreading globally. what can we learn from others?

    CRETECH

    It’s clear there is real momentum in the CREtech and PropTech sector. Whatever you call it (many different terms used in different parts of the world), we are experiencing a global movement of the intersection of tech and real estate. And if you talk to those that are at the forefront of the industry, it seems momentum is accelerating literally daily.One of the things I have taken note of lately is the growth of tech events in the sector happening around the world. Truly amazing. And the caliber…

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