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  • City kicks off Union Square tech-hub project

    Crains New York – Everything Real Estate

    The city and developer RAL Development Services today plan to kick off the public-review process for a proposed 20-story technology hub and office building in Union Square. The project, which is expected to be officially set in motion by the City Planning Commission this afternoon, will be one of the first controversial rezonings to make its way through the City Council under Speaker Corey Johnson. The city’s Economic Development Corp. proposes replacing the former tenant at 124 East 14th St., P…

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  • Voicelabs launches Alpine to bring retailers to the voice shopping ecosystem

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    Voicelabs, a company that has been experimenting in the voice computing market for some time with initiatives in advertising and analytics, is now pivoting its business again – this time, to voice-enabled commerce. The company is today launching its latest product out of stealth: Alpine.AI, a solution that builds voice shopping apps for retailers by importing their catalog, then layering AI technology on top to better answer consumers’ voice queries, and ultimately convert those queries to purch…

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  • evest technology disrupts the multi-trillion dollar real estate market

    CRETECH

    In an age where FANG technology (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) runs the world, most real estate professionals are in the Stone Age. This is the only industry where Excel sheets are still considered to be on the bleeding edge of innovation.eVest Technology has rejected this. For real estate, the future is now. Any real estate agency that does not adopt and use the latest in technology will be left by the wayside.Their software will allow professionals to manage real estate investment off…

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  • 1 Big Reason Atlanta Ranks So High for Amazon HQ2

    Inc.com – Headlines

    The municipal mega-beauty-pageant over which city Amazon selects for its second headquarters this year is heating up. According to insiders, Atlanta, ranked among the top three contenders, brings even more to the competition than most realize. The discussion is moving beyond Atlanta's unstoppable talent and untamable traffic into dimensions that make Atlanta not just another good location, but more of a real home. Amazon: hunting a HQ2 or a second home? In interview after interview with my …

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  • Apto: How To Broker in the Digital Age

    CRETECH

    The Apto platform serves nearly 10,000 commercial brokers with its web-based software, helping to manage relationships, properties, listings, deals and commissions. Created specifically with brokers in mind, it helps manage the full lifecycle of a deal from anyplace and on any device. Features include building and maintaining an accurate, comprehensive contact database, browsing availabilities against your clients’ needs in order to find the perfect match, an ability to automate frequent acti…

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  • to see the future of commercial real estate development –don’t look to real estate developers…

    CRETECH

    Sorry. Just sayin’.Historically, most of the innovation in business comes from outside the industry itself.Retail was disrupted by Amazon. Media was disrupted by Facebook. Auto was disrupted by Uber. Hotels were disrupted by AirBnB. Healthcare will be profoundly disrupted by companies like Google. And now banking is potentially being disrupted by CryptoCurrency.When I think about where the innovation will come from in the development sector, I don’t believe it will come from the developers thems…

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  • Every Human In A Building Is A Revenue Source. And Why Not!

    Duke Long Blog

    Oh, the pitches that come along with the pitches. They are many and to be honest, lately, some of them are so very good. A few that have caught my attention and the few that have stood out are the ones that are facing the consumer. And when I say facing the consumer I mean directly facing them. Where do these companies live? They live where the rest of the entire world lives. On that screen. that minicomputer we all hold in our hands just about every second of every day. How many conversations d…

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  • 3 ways that Amazon Go sets the stage for the ‘store of the future’

    MarketWatch.com – Top Stories

    The Amazon Go store that finally opened for business on Monday may not be coming to your neighborhood anytime soon, but elements of that bricks-and-mortar shop and the experience of shopping there certainly are. Amazon.com Inc.’s AMZN, +1.75% latest venture, which is located in Seattle and is a year late, does away with traditional queues and cash registers. “This is not a checkout solution. It’s a fully-connected store,” said Brendan Witcher, principal analyst at Forrester, who visited two week…

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  • Google set to land in the Spruce Goose hangar in the fall

    The Real Deal – Los Angeles

    The hangar at Hercules Campus West, known as the Spruce Goose hangar (Credit: David Alf, Wikimedia Commons) Google will move into the repurposed “Spruce Goose” aircraft hanger in Playa Vista in the fall, more than a year and a half after signing a lease for the cavernous, 319,000-square-foot building. The hangar is owned by Japanese conglomerate ASO Group, which is building out a three-story office structure to suit Google’s needs. The investment firm paid $273 million in late 2016 for the hanga…

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  • How will Industry 4.0 impact U.S. manufacturing?

    JLL Real Views

    The Fourth Industrial Revolution is picking up steam in warehouse aisles and factory floors around the world. As advancing technology brings the manufacturing industry closer to the vision of a ‘smart factory,’ the future of U.S. manufacturing depends on how well industry leaders play the new cards in the deck: robotics, data, automation and 3D printing—without overlooking the value of human capital. So far, the U.S. appears ready for change, earning a “well positioned for the future” nod from t…

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