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  • Looxid Labs Wins a CES 2018 Best of Innovation Awards in Virtual Reality

    PR Newswire – Commercial Real Estate

    LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/– Looxid Labs, a tech startup developing a user emotion recognition system optimized for Virtual Reality (VR), announced that LooxidVR– a mobile based VR headset for eye tracking and EEG recording– has earned a CES 2018 Best of Innovation Awards in Virtual Reality. Looxid Labs received the Best of Innovation Awards following last year’s honoree Google Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the world's largest trade show annually held by the Consumer Techno…

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  • Guess who’s dropping big money to keep millennial workers happy?

    The Real Deal – New York

    If you guessed Blackstone Group, Brookfield Property Partners and Boston Properties, you'd be right; the major commercial landlords are investing big to stave off the WeWorks of the world and keep millennial workers in their offices. Without altering office to include the perks of a gym, free in-office cafes and bars and a flexible, open-concept layout, these landlords don't believe they can hold on to tenants, according to Bloomberg. “The way towers were built in the 1980s, they were …

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  • Robomart is the latest startup to try and unseat the local convenience store

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    The startup assault on the humble neighborhood store continues to intensify. First came Bodega, the terribly named, and mostly misguidedstartup with its mission to bring the non-perishable necessities available at the corner store to the masses and “disrupt” the corner store. Now there’s Robomart, which wants to bring the groceries, baked goods and prepared foods of the supermarket aisle to your doorstep with a white-labeled service for wholesalers and big box retailers. The culmination of a ten…

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  • New York legislator pushes to legalize short-term rentals

    Inman News – Features

    Will 2018 be the year Airbnb becomes "fully legal" in New York City? If New York State Senator John Bonacic has his way, it seems so. On January 3, Bonacic introduced Senate Bill S7182 (see bill below), which proposes a number of amendments to the 1929 Multiple Dwelling Lawn that currently bans homeowners from renting an entire home or apartment for less than 30 days. One of the biggest changes– beyond simply allowing these rentals to exist on Airbnb or any other short-term rental pla…

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  • Amazon could buy Macy’s, Kohl’s, or JCPenney over Target (AMZN, TGT, KSS)

    Business Insider – Finance

    Speculation is swirling that Amazon could buy Target as the ecommerce giant moves to grow its presence in the physical retail world. Target would give Amazon access to nearly 2,000 stores, but it has too much overlap with Amazon in certain categories, according to Steve Dennis, the founder of retail advisory firm SageBerry Consulting.  Other potential Amazon acquisitions include Macy's, JCPenney, Kohl's, Lowe's, and Williams Sonoma. An analyst's prediction this week that Amaz…

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  • Alexa, Show Me What Our New Sales Center Would Look Like

    CoreNet Global Summit Talk

    CoreNet Global The Pulse Blog Search Alexa, Show Me What Our New Sales Center Would Look LikeJanuary 5, 2018|In CoreNet Global News|By David Harrison For several years, attendees of the CoreNet Global summits around the world have been trying on virtual reality and augmented reality devices that replicate building sites, plans, and concepts. Walk from the parking lot to the sales center, view the green roof from above and compare various interior layout concepts – all without leaving the CoreNet…

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  • Using Google Street View to Predict Voting Patterns

    Connect Commercial Real Estate

    Led by Stanford's computer vision scientist Timnit Gebru, a team of researchers were able to perform image analysis using Google Street View to accurately predict neighborhood voting patterns. Using Artificial Intelligence and the 50 million images of street scenes and location data, they were able to find out the make and model of roughly 22 million cars (8% of all in the country), and cross-reference the data with election voting records and Census data to predict various neighborhoods&#0…

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  • Technology Is Changing the Property Listing Game | #BorrowWisely

    Ask a Lender

    Drones, 3-D and augmented reality are no longer just the purview of sci-fi blockbusters and video games. They could be the tools that fetch you a dazzling purchase price when selling your home. With economies of scale bringing down the cost of drone and virtual reality (VR) technologies, real estate agents and property developers are increasingly applying digital solutions to their home-selling processes. According to Goldman Sachs Research, virtual and augmented reality will be an $80 billion i…

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  • Big year for Brooklyn Navy Yard

    Crains New York – Everything Real Estate

    The Brooklyn Navy Yard had a banner year of rental activity, as it leased newly readied office space at the sprawling 300-acre former industrial campus and filled vacancies that opened in its buildings' 4 million square feet. “We had significantly more leasing than in a normal year for the complex,” said David Ehrenberg, president and chief executive of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp., the nonprofit that runs the city-owned property. Among the reasons for the uptick was that the Na…

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  • College opening $14.8M technology center

    Grand Rapids Business Journal – Construction

    College opening $14.8M technology center January 4, 2018 | By Justin Dawes | TAGS C2AE / Clark Construction Company / MCC Share Text Size: A A Related Articles College building $15.5M STEM center GVSU Seidman College of Business opens $40M center downtown College earns $1M grant for low-income STEM students Related Events Grand Rapids 3D Printing and Wide Format Technologies Open House Grand Rapids Community College/Aleicia Woodrick Diversity Learning Center Diversity Lecture Series Trinity Seni…

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