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  • Target acquiring Shipt for $550 million

    AL.com – Birmingham Business News

    Target today announced it is acquiring Birmingham-based online delivery platform Shipt for $550 million in cash, with an ambitious plan to use the firm to transform its capabilities. Target says the deal "significantly accelerates" the company's digital fulfillment efforts, bringing same-day delivery services to guests at approximately half of Target stores by early 2018, and in all major markets by the 2018 holiday season. Target expects to offer same-day delivery of groceries, e…

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  • The Definitive Guide to Smart City Events in 2018

    Dreamit – Blog

    If you are working to create a more innovative and connected city or in a private sector job related to smart cities, data, or IoT, these are the conferences that you should not miss this year: Smart Cities: Thriving in the Future (at CES) | Jan. 9-12 | Las Vegas, NVThis event receives heavy global media attention and boasts a total attendance of more than 184,000 industry professionals. The wide scope of consumer technology makes the show a gathering place for businesspeople in a variety of mar…

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  • Trust The Process. Guest Post Lauren Mead.

    Duke Long Blog

    Summit LA 2017 turned out to be a whirlwind of thought-provoking metamorphic ideas, awe-inspiring energy, liberating acceptance, grounding authenticity, and countless serendipitous interactions all in the name of humanity. Summit appeared to be a conference for current and future global thought leaders to learn and teach the importance of practicing “good” once in a position of power and influence. Participants were subconsciously being trained to lead with courage, boundless thinking, respect, …

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  • Tech Manufacturer Finisar to Open 700,000 SF Plant in Sherman Using $390M Grant from Apple

    Real Estate Investors HQ

    SHERMAN, TEXAS — Finisar, a California-based manufacturer of optical communications components used in Apple products, will open a 700,000-square-foot, previously shuttered manufacturing plant in Sherman. Funding for the project stems from a $390 million grant provided by Apple Inc. The awarding of the grant will enable Finisar, which already operates a plant in Allen, to increase its research and development spending and up its production of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), whi…

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  • 5 Questions for Building Engines’ New CEO, Tim Curran

    Building Engines Blog – Building Beat

    5 Questions for Building Engines’ New CEO, Tim Curran Published by Scott Sidman on December 13, 2017 Tweet Share ShareShares 0  It’s been quite a year for the Building Engines team following our latest infusion of capital investment in October 2016.   This year, we introduced new mobile innovations with an enhanced mobile tenant services app, The Hive, unveiled the characteristics of high-performing CRE organizations in the industry’s first CRE operations benchmarking research, hosted our commun…

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  • NAVITAS CAPITAL ANNOUNCES CLOSE OF FUND 2

    Navitascap

      BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – December 12, 2017- Navitas Capital, a venture capital fund focused on early-stage technology investments for the real estate and construction industries, closed its second fund with $60M in LP commitments.   Navitas’ investment strategy is to provide a combination of growth capital, industry expertise, and market access to high growth technology companies in its primary focus areas: smart buildings, workflow solutions, artificial intelligence/machine learning, marketpla…

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  • 4 steps to successful personalization

    Retail Dive

    How to use data to truly personalize the consumer experience – without being intrusive. Author By Kevin Brown • Published Dec. 13, 2017 Share it post share tweet Sponsored Content By As we all know, information has become extremely valuable, and when it comes to proliferation of data, payments are the motherlode. In 2015, there were more than 144 billion non-cash payments in the U.S. alone. That’s 144 billion swipes at a POS terminal or “confirm payment” clicks online. And with each purchase com…

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  • How Emerging Technology Is Changing the CRE Appraisal World

    CRETECH

    Scores of innovative companies have emerged in the last decade aimed to disrupt the commercial real estate brokerage sector. While billions of dollars invested have improved everything from lease management to securing deal funding, the commercial appraisal sector remains in the shadow. According to IBIS World, the commercial appraisal sector is a $4 billion-dollar industry. With a significant slice of the CRE pie, plus the uptick in technology applications across the sector, the property valuat…

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  • To keep closer tabs on rent-regulated landlords, city overhauls its tech

    Crains New York – Current Issue

    When tenants in Brooklyn and the Bronx sued their landlords for overcharging on rent late last year and this past spring, they decided to also name the city’s housing czar, Vicki Been, and then… To view the full story, click the title link.

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  • Why is Southern Cali Still in the Dark About the Hi-Tech Ecosystem in Baja California?

    http://www.nearshoreamericas.com/

    It feels strange to say this, but, in a way, the threats to radically alter NAFTA by the Trump administration have actually brought positive exposure to the overall benefits of nearshore operations in Mexico, especially in Baja California. What’s odd is that virtually nobody in neighboring Southern California seems to know about it. At the very least, the level of visibility into how productive Mexico truly is, and how dependent we in the US are upon their exports, has increased dramatically fro…

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