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  • Microsoft plans to rebuild its suburban headquarters

    BostonHerald.com – Real Estate News Feed

    SEATTLE — Microsoft is overhauling its longtime headquarters with an 18-building construction project that will make room for another 8,000 workers. The announcement came ahead of the company's annual shareholders meeting Wednesday. Microsoft's decision to expand on the footprint of its campus in Redmond, Washington, its home since 1986, is in contrast to the highly-publicized office expansion plans of Seattle-based Amazon. Amazon has been looking at cities across North America for a s…

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  • Microsoft announces huge expansion to ‘modernize’ its Redmond HQ

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    Microsoft has announced a massive expansion plan aimed at modernizing its headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Unlike fellow Washington-based tech giant Amazon, which is seeking a second HQ in a new location, Microsoft is building on existing ground in order to “grow right here at home.” Its current Redmond Campus includes 125 buildings that house a workforce of around 48,000, but its expansion will add capacity for an additional 8,000 staff and introduce more scenic elements to the site. “Next …

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  • Microsoft plans multibillion-dollar Redmond headquarters expansion

    BizJournal – Technology

    Microsoft President Brad Smith discusses the 9.2 million-square-foot plan and the tech company's real estate strategy.

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  • A couple bought one of the most exclusive streets in San Francisco for $90,000 — now the city is making them give it back

    Business Insider – Tech

    Residents of a private street in San Francisco were outraged after one couple scooped up their cul-de-sac in an online auction and tried to sell it back to them for nearly $1 million. City leaders are now moving to rescind the sale. SAN FRANCISCO — Tina Lam is an engineer with an engineer's salary. She can't afford to live on Presidio Terrace — one of the most exclusive streets in San Francisco — but she could buy the street. In 2015, the City of San Francisco put the parcel up for sal…

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  • Exclusive: Ex-Yahoo site in Santa Clara trades again, Chinese developer eyes megaproject with housing

    Real Estate Investors HQ

    The 49 acres in Santa Clara once owned by Yahoo and later bought by Chinese tech conglomerate LeEco has traded hands again — this time to a Chinese developer that appears to be interested in adding thousands of units of housing and retail to the megacampus plans. The post Exclusive: Ex-Yahoo site in Santa Clara trades again, Chinese developer eyes megaproject with housing appeared first on Real Estate Investor HQ.

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  • Retail workers lacking tech tools

    Tulip Retail – News

    Retail workers lacking tech toolsAs seen on Retail Leader. Retail workers are not equipped with the mobile devices they need in order to offer shoppers the frictionless shopping experience they expect, according to a new survey. A new retail store associate survey by Tulip, a mobile application provider focused on empowering workers in retail stores, shows that 61% of store associates are not armed with mobile devices and only 17% are interacting with customers and expanding the relationship bey…

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  • Best SAAS Tools for Tech in B2B

    SIOR Pulse Blog

    There has never been a better time for entrepreneurs and business owners who wish to thrive in the B2B sector. With enterprise activity and competition at very high levels in 2017, B2B companies require advanced tools to run their business processes, and they are more interested in finding the right Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tools than on developing in-house solutions. With this in mind, here are some of the best SaaS tools being used by B2B companies these days: Smartling Translating online …

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  • Tech-by-the-Bay: Less of a bubble, more of an economic revolution

    JLL Edge Blog

    Tech-by-the-Bay: Less of a bubble, more of an economic revolution November 28, 20170 CommentsBy JLL Edge November 28, 2017  By: Steffen Kammerer, Senior Vice President, JLL JLL’s latest report on Tech Office Trends shows the Bay Area’s continuing dominance as a global center of innovation. This may be news to some of you reading this, but the revered “three dot” Chronicle columnist Herb Caen christened San Francisco “Baghdad-by-the-Bay” because of its diversity and multiculturalism. While that d…

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  • AppFolio Reveals New Offerings

    CRETECH

    AppFolio provides easy-to-use, cloud-based software serving customers in the property management and legal industries. Last month, the company announced the upcoming launch of four new offerings for its AppFolio Property Manager (APM) customers:AppFolio Renters InsuranceSame-day ACHCollectionsRainmaker LRO integrationThe rental insurance feature allows property managers to easily offer and track tenant liability and content insurance policies — all from within the company’s software. This is an…

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  • Optimus Ride will provide self-driving vehicles to Boston community residents

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    A new partnership between autonomous driving startup Optimus Ride and release estate developer LStar Ventures will see self-driving vehicle access offered up to residents of a new urban development near Boston called Union Point, via a revenue generating last mile commuter and local destination autonomous travel service. The partnership will see the Union Point neighborhood, which occupies 1,550 acres just over 10 miles south of Boston, loaded out with a fleet provided by Optimus Ride that will …

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