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  • Amazon’s grocery store of the future opens today: no cashiers, no registers, and no lines

    Business Insider – Retail

    Amazon is breaking into physical retail in a new way. Amazon's checkout-free grocery store opens in Seattle on Monday. The online retail giant first started testing its grocery store with employees in December 2016, when it also revealed its vision for a store without cashiers. The store, called Amazon Go, doesn't work like a typical Walmart or supermarket — instead, it's designed so that shoppers will use an app, also called Amazon Go, to automatically add the products they plan …

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  • No lines, no checkout, no problem! Is Amazon Go the grocery store of the future?

    MSNBC.com – Business

    Retail powerhouse Amazon is disrupting retail yet again, with the opening of its checkout-free Amazon Go grocery store in Seattle. It looks and feels like a regular grocery store, but with one major difference: There's no checkout — and no checkout lines. Upon entering, shoppers scan a special smartphone app that registers them into the store. After grabbing their items, customers are free to walk right out. Facebook Twitter Embed Amazon Go opens, promises to revolutionize brick-and-mortar …

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  • Dealpath Paves The Way For Deal Collaboration and Management

    CRETECH

    It takes a village to build a village, and that’s where Dealpath lends a hand. It helps improve the way commercial real estate teams work together so that better decisions and outcomes can be made. The emphasis is on workflow, network, and data services for the life of the real estate deal. In particular, Dealpath is intelligent software and a collaboration platform for commercial real estate deal management. It supports industry professionals particularly in acquisitions, financing, and deve…

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  • Amazon opening “Go” store with no cashiers or checkout lines

    CBS News – Breaking News

    Amazon opening "Go" store with no cashiers or checkout lines Shoppers enter the Amazon Go store located in Amazon's office building in Seattle, while store was being tested, on January 18, 2018 JEFFREY DASTIN / REUTERS Share Tweet Reddit Flipboard Email SEATTLE– Amazon employees have been testing it, but is the public ready for a cashier-less store? More than a year after it introduced the concept, Amazon is opening its artificial intelligence-powered Amazon Go store in downtown …

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  • Which REIT Sectors Will Outperform in 2018?

    NREI – National

    In 2017, publicly-traded REITs in the industrial, data center and infrastructure sectors outperformed the other general REIT categories. Among REITs last year, the I’s—industrial, information and infrastructure—had it, and had it in a big way. But will those sectors repeat their great feats in 2018? Or will other sectors bypass them in terms of performance? In 2017, publicly-traded REITs in the industrial, information (aka data centers) and infrastructure sectors outperformed the other general R…

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  • TechStars Enters the Real Estate Accelerator Picture with Partnership with Colliers

    Geek Estate Blog

    I've written about real estate accelerators before, and even questioned how many of them the industry can support. The real estate accelerator space got a tad more crowded last week. The clear leader in accelerators, Techstars, is partnering with Colliers to launch the Colliers PropTech Accelerator Powered by Techstars. My biggest questions: “Proptech” is a massively broad category encompassing residential sales, rentals, commercial, smart home, and mortgage (among others). How do applicant…

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  • Is Silicon Valley losing its edge?

    The Real Deal – New York

    What was supposed to be an awe-inspiring trip to the Bay Area, turned into an experience of validation and self-affirmation for a group of Chinese tech entrepreneurs and start-up founders. Far from being struck by the advances in technology and society in Silicon Valley, the delegation was shocked at the prevalence of cash, that food deliveries shut down overnight and most people drive, not bike, reported the Wall Street Journal. Their observations are backed up by stats; China is a more technol…

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  • Where Will Amazon HQ2 Land? Experts Weigh In

    CBS Boston

    (CNN Money) — The race is on: Amazon has announced its list of 20 cities that are finalists to host its second headquarters. But who will — and who should — win? CNN Opinion teamed up with CNNMoney to ask experts and thinkers for their views. Related: Boston Among Amazon HQ2 Finalists Roxanne Jones Who will win: Austin, Texas, seems hot right now for the tech giants. Considering the Amazon-owned Whole Foods is located there, my business sense tells me Austin is the favorite. Who should win: I&#0…

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  • Welcome to the Neighborhood: America’s Sports Stadiums Are Moving Downtown

    New York Times – U.S. Business News

    New sports arenas are altering the financial formula for building these behemoths by surrounding themselves with apartments, bars and office towers — not parking lots.

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  • REBNY to lobby for ending limits on residential building sizes

    Crains New York – Everything Real Estate

    This year the Real Estate Board of New York plans on pushing Albany to lift a cap that has long limited the size of new apartment buildings in New York City, the trade group’s president said Thursday. Current state rules restrict the square footage of a residential building to 12 times its lot size. While this has resulted in plenty of tall Manhattan apartment towers, developers have the capability to go much higher. Commercial office buildings are routinely built to twice this density, and some…

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