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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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  • Workforce: How Dallas-Fort Worth stacks up on tech talent for Amazon’s HQ2

    Dallas Business Journal – Commercial Real Estate News

    Amazon's need to attract the tech workers — especially software and web developers — will drive the search for its much vaunted second headquarters.

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  • Data Centers, Cell Towers Offer Real Estate Plays Tied to Tech Market

    National Association of REIT

    Data center and infrastructure REITs offer two ways for investors to make technology-focused plays on the real estate market, according to Burl East, manager of the Altegris/AACA Opportunistic Real Estate Fund.

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  • Mindspace raises $20 million to launch co-working spaces in the US

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    Co-working startup Mindspace recently raised $20 million as it gears up to launch its first two locations in the U.S. While Mindspace is looking to go big or go home in the U.S., it’s starting off slow with its first two locations in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Mindspace started in Tel Aviv about four years ago and has since expanded to Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom. Mindspace, in addition to physical office space, offers fully furnished spaces, internet, cleaning services, a ful…

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  • Settlement talks between CoStar and Xceligent break down

    The Real Deal – New York

    Last week it looked like CoStar and Xceligent’s high-stakes legal battle was heading for a settlement. But now talks have broken down. CoStar wanted Xceligent to delete material on its database as part of a settlement deal, the Wall Street Journal reported without citing details. Xceligent balked, meaning the two sides are bound to head back to court. CoStar sued Xceligent last December for alleged copyright infringement, claiming the rival commercial property database stole its images. Xceligen…

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  • Podcast #164 Duke Long. What Are The Top Four CRM Companies in #CRE? Listen And Find Out!

    Duke Long Blog

    What is one of if not the most effective and underutilized tools for commercial real estate today? A spectacular CRM solution. What are the four you must try? Listen to find out and I tell you why! The Evolution of REX. Prototypes, Seed Rounds, and Beta. It has been at best an interesting year in commercial real estate, to say the least not to mention the world in general. At the beginning of the year, I committed to writing two articles a month for the website cre.tech.com. (Since rebranded to….

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  • Highlights from Our Conversation with Michael Beckerman

    Building Engines Blog – Building Beat

    Highlights from Our Conversation with Michael Beckerman Published by Scott Sidman on December 12, 2017 Tweet Share ShareShares 0Michael Beckerman is the founder of CRE industry destination The News Funnel and CEO of the largest commercial real estate tech events in the industry CRE Tech. He recently sat down with Building Engines' Head of Research, Phil Mobley, to discuss the findings of our CRE operations industry benchmarking research. Highlights of the full discussion are below. “…when I…

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  • Compass gains $450 million in real estate tech investment

    Chicago Agent Magazine

    Real estate tech company Compass announced it received a $450 million investment from Japanese company SoftBank Vision Fund on Dec. 7. This investment stands as the largest real estate technology investment in U.S. history and brings the total capital raised by Compass to $775 million. “Real estate is a huge asset class, but the sector has been relatively untouched by technology and remains inefficient and fragmented,” said Justin Wilson, a senior investment professional at the SoftBank Vision F…

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  • Can progressive web apps solve the app vs. browser dilemma?

    Retail Dive

    The line-blurring solution offers several advantages for shoppers and retailers, but challenges exist that could be a deal breaker for some. Author By Robert Williams • Published Dec. 12, 2017 Share it post share tweet First Published on Mobile app or mobile web? While the debate has been discussed for years, there’s an emerging solution that blurs the line between to two solutions by bringing many of the advantages of native mobile apps to the mobile browser.  Although both are used on smartpho…

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  • Embracing the Tech Catalyst in Real Estate

    CRETECH

    Guest Post by Lucas Signor, Solutions Engineer, SitehandsCommercial and corporate real estate executives face new opportunities and new challenges in today’s marketplace. Agile and savvy real estate executives go from just seeing technology as a necessary expense and additional challenge to embracing it as an opportunity. Successful real estate executives tackle the cost per square footage equation from the perspective of cost containment and business value/productivity enhancement.Technology as…

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