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  • Cybersecurity Expert Samitha Amarasiri Joins Protiviti as Managing Director in Security and Privacy Consulting Practice

    PR Newswire – Commercial Real Estate

    MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/– Samitha Amarasiri has joined global consulting firm Protiviti as a managing director in its Security and Privacy consulting practice. Based in New York City, he serves clients nationally within the banking and insurance industries, and locally within the New York City metro area. Amarasiri primarily focuses on enhancing clients' cybersecurity programs to effectively combat cyber threats and efficiently demonstrate regulatory compliance. Amara…

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  • WeWork’s Powered By We product is central to 2018 growth strategy

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    WeWork had a big year in 2017. The seven-year-old company opened 90 new locations, doubling its global membership, and expanded into new cities in Latin America, Asia and Australia, and Europe and Israel. It is reportedly valued at $20 billion. While 2018 holds more of the same — WeWork plans to launch 1 million square feet of new space each month next year — the company also plans to grow its new Powered by We business aggressively. Powered By We is essentially office space as a service — WeWor…

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  • ​Why an entertainment expert is a real estate VC’s newest hire

    Axios – Technology

    Natalie Bruss, former VP of digital strategy for Hollywood PR powerhouse ID, has joined real estate-focused VC firm Fifth Wall Ventures as a partner. The twist: Bruss may at first appear to be an odd hire for Fifth Wall, but partner Brad Greiwe says she has the exact expertise that large real estate incumbents need as their industry evolves to focus more on experiences and services. Office space is no longer long-term leases for empty buildings—it's WeWork's hip month-to-month co-worki…

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  • How to get agents to try (and love) new technology

    Phoenix Association of Realtors

    Across the board, brokerages struggle to reach even modest adoption rates in software implementations among their agents; the average rate for agents using brokerage-provided software is an abysmal 6 percent … Inman

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  • Growing Evidence That Chatbots Are Here To Stay

    CRETECH

    Chatbots have become the real estate agent’s best friend when capturing leads (what other friend would answer a question at two a.m. on a Sunday morning?). Chatbots can do much of the heavy lifting that used to be left to agents, such as following up on online leads, asking qualifying questions, and searching MLS data. Once the lead is captured and all of the qualifying questions are answered, the lead is ready for the agent, who is alerted.In June, Real Estate Tech News reported that chat bots,…

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  • GP Strategies to Acquire Hula Partners

    PR Newswire – Commercial Real Estate

    COLUMBIA, Md., Dec. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/– Global performance improvement solutions provider GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE: GPX) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement, subject to closing conditions, to acquire certain assets and the business of Hula Partners, a provider of SAP SuccessFactors Human Capital Management (HCM) implementation services. Hula Partners highlights: Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Houston, Texas Delivers the full life cycle of HCM solutions from plann…

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  • Will airport power outage hurt city’s chance to win Amazon’s HQ2?

    Atlanta Business Chronicle – Commercial Real Estate

    Will the massive power outage at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport damage the city’s chances of getting Amazon’s second headquarters? That’s what CNN wonders in a piece in which it says one of the city’s biggest selling points — it’s home to the world’s busiest airport — could now also be a trouble spot. "The timing is really horrible for Atlanta," Ilir Hysa, a senior economist at Moody's Analytics, told CNN Tech. "Amazon might be in the process of short listin…

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  • Westside Opportunities in Office: Development, Design, and Investment

    Connect Commercial Real Estate

    > Westside Opportunities in Office: Development, Design, and Investment December 20, 2017 By Dennis Kaiser Connect Westside Los Angeles brought together more than 300 attendees at the Luxe Sunset for a full afternoon of CRE conversations and networking. Three deep-dive panel discussions featured some of the region’s top industry leaders, who shared insights on trends shaping the market. Connect Media will be recapping the panels this week. Today, we’ll share a few key takeaways from the Oppor…

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  • Brokers+Engineers Brings New Technology to NNN Sector

    NREI – National

    NREI talked with Brokers+Engineers CEO and co-founder Camille Renshaw to learn more about the firm’s technology solutions for the net lease sector. Earlier this month, Brokers+Engineers launched an online brokerage and trading platform for the net lease real estate sector, which in the U.S. encompasses an estimated 1.3 million properties with a total market value of $6.5 trillion. NREI talked with CEO and co-founder Camille Renshaw to learn more about the firm’s technology solutions and the pote…

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  • The Hottest 2017 Flexible Workspace Articles

    AllWork

    Facebook Twitter Linkedin The articles that captured our reader’s interest and where they lingered the longest. Have you read them all? 2017 was full of exciting flexible workspace news and happenings. By reporting on these, Allwork.Space attracted over 120,000 of users from all corners of the world. And while some of our readers grew tired of WeWork stories (based on social media feedback), our statistics show that our readers are highly interested in WeWork and WeWork happenings, with 6 of the…

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