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  • ‘A Major Distraction’: Is A Mega-Deal Like Amazon’s HQ2 Always Worth It?

    NPR – Business

    On a wall in Greg LeRoy's office is a frame with a custom-engraved wrench and a photo of workers in front of the Diamond Tool and Horseshoe factory in Duluth, Minn. It's from his days helping unions fight plant closings — when he first started digging into the convoluted financial relationship of corporations and local governments. These days, LeRoy is the guy to call if you want to know about corporate subsidies. Lately, his phone has been ringing about one company in particular: Amaz…

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  • Amazon has brought benefits- and disruption- to Seattle

    Associate Press Top Business News

    Amazon has brought benefits- and disruption- to Seattle By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press AP Photo/Elaine Thompson Latest News Big question for US cities: Is Amazon's HQ2 worth the price? Amazon has brought benefits- and disruption- to Seattle Wooing Amazon with sun, fun… and giant buttons Get lost mom and dad! Amazon lets teens shop on their own SEATTLE (AP)– Memo to the many places vying for Amazon's second headquarters: It ain't all food trucks and free bananas. For years, mu…

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  • Top 7 Commercial Real Estate CRM Systems (2017)

    The Broker List Blog

    Commercial real estate can benefit from a CRM software solution that can ensure a more efficiently run company. Commercial real estate CRM software can manage your interactions with clients, prospects, and tenants. Commercial real estate agents can use a CRM system as a powerful tool. They have the ability to automate important components of the follow up process, efficiently manage your contacts and maximize opportunity by scoring leads.  The benefits of having a good commercial real estate CRM…

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  • Artificial Intelligence is Reinventing Shopping

    4URSPACE – News Updates

    Artificial Intelligence is Reinventing Shopping October 17th, 2017 by Stefano Sanchini Posted in Retail | Artificial intelligence (AI) application in the retail industry improves a brand's customer service. With AI, brands design shopping experiences both more convenient and more personalized for consumers. A study by Apptus found 52% of fashion retailers plan to invest in AI applications during the next year with 19% planning to join the trend next year. How exactly can retailers use AI te…

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  • Amazon, Apartment Landlords Strike Deals on Deliveries

    Wall Street Journal – U.S. Business

    Amazon is taking over the package rooms of some of the country’s largest apartment landlords, in a move that could help consolidate its control over how goods make it from the warehouse floor to the front door.

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  • Google-parent Alphabet picks Toronto for first digital neighborhood

    Seattle Times – Business and Technology News

    Alphabet’s “city of the future” has found its first home in Toronto. Sidewalk Labs, the urban innovation unit of Google-parent Alphabet, and Waterfront Toronto plan to foster the development of a high-tech community from scratch along Lake Ontario in Canada’s biggest city. The area aims to become an innovation hub for technologies that improve city life, from green energy systems, to self-driving transit and new construction techniques that can lower housing costs, the companies said in a statem…

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  • Great Oculus Rift + Touch Bundle Deal (and PC Deal)

    WIRED – Top Stories

    This Oculus Rift Discount Brings Virtual Reality Into the Real WorldoculusSharesharetweetcommentemailAuthor: Wired StaffWired Staffgear10.17.1704:35 pmThis Oculus Rift Discount Brings Virtual Reality Into the Real WorldoculusThere's nothing quite as bizarre—or as thrilling—as walking around your living room completely absorbed in a Holodeck-like virtual reality game. Headsets like the Oculus Rift + Touch and HTC Vive blind and deafen you to the real world in favor of a digital land where yo…

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  • Google’s parent company is creating an entire high-tech neighborhood in Toronto — here’s what it could look like

    Business Insider – Finance

    On Tuesday, Sidewalk Labs — the urban innovation unit of Google parent company Alphabet — announced that it will design a high-tech neighborhood on Toronto's waterfront. Exact design plans are still unclear, but the company has released preliminary renderings of what it imagines the 12-acre district, called Quayside, could look like. The city of Toronto and Sidewalk Labs call the larger project "Sidewalk Toronto." Technology will be a big part of the masterplan, Sidewalk Labs CEO …

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  • Bernstein Real Estate channels experience, creativity as it looks to the future

    Real Estate Weekly

    From his corner office on the 20th floor of 150 West 30th Street, Asher Bernstein has a clear view of the Hudson Yards worksite three blocks away. He can also see how and where the ripple effects from that transformative development will land, but he doesn’t need a high-rise for that, he’s got nearly a century of inherited knowledge to stand on. “I’ve been in business now for 46 years and it’s given me the privilege to see trends and understand what’s happening — I’ve been through many a recessi…

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  • Augmented Reality and drones win NY real estate hackathon

    Inman News – Features

    Dozens of innovators in technology and real estate spent last weekend in a fourth-floor midtown Manhattan tech incubator to devise creative ways to tackle some of the biggest problems plaguing the real estate industry. The Real Estate Board of New York’s (REBNY) 2017 hackathon, taking place at Grand Central Tech– a tech breeding place that provides office space, resources and educational opportunities to startups at a cost– tasked 16 groups with solving issues related to building and renting h…

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