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  • WeWork’s Brooklyn Navy Yard home at Dock 72 has topped out

    Curbed – New York

    More than a year after construction got underway, Brooklyn Navy Yard’s massive new office building at Dock 72 has topped out. Once complete, this 17-story building will be home to creative and tech firms, most notably WeWork, which has signed on to 222,000 square feet of space at the building, and is co-developing the project along with Rudin Development and Boston Properties. Aside from the offices, the building will have 35,000 square feet of amenities, all curated by WeWork. These amenities i…

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  • Walmart debuts voice shopping on the Google Home

    Business Insider – Retail

    Walmart announced on Wednesday that its customers are now able to shop on Walmart.com using voice commands via Google Home and Google Home Mini devices. In addition, Walmart is offering a deal to customers of $25 off a Walmart order when they buy one of the Google devices and link their Walmart account to Google’s online shopping platform, Google Express. The integration of Google Express and Google Home with Walmart’s Easy Reorder may spur faster adoption of voice ordering among Walmart custome…

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  • These are the top NYC real estate events happening next week

    The Real Deal – New York

    Several real estate tech events are happening next week. Brush up on your crypto-currency trends and check out the International Blockchain Real Estate Association (IBREA)'s real estate conference on Oct. 10 from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Hogan Lovells, 875 Third Avenue. Orl Perelman of ChromaWay, Leslie Gahagan of Colliers International, Ovidio Diaz Espino of Isthmus Capital, David Knowles of Stanfield Partners, among others will provide speeches. Attend for an all-day conference that mixes real…

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  • Boxed tests driverless carts to improve warehouse efficiency

    Retail Dive

    Author By Dan O'Shea • Published Oct. 6, 2017 Share it post share tweet Dive Brief: E-commerce wholesaler Boxed has developed an autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) that can pick up and transport orders through the company's fulfillment centers, enabling 80% more picks per hour than might be done by human pickers traveling on foot, Boxed told Retail Dive via e-mail. Boxed plans to use as many as 30 to 40 AGVs per facility by early 2018, Boxed CTO Will Fong said. It’s now testing a single p…

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  • ThePowerLab launches co-working space, incubator in southwest Yonkers

    Westfair Communications

    ThePowerLab launches co-working space, incubator in southwest Yonkers By Ryan Deffenbaugh- October 6, 2017 SHARE Facebook Twitter Leading The PowerLab in southwest Yonkers are, from left, Ray Wilcox, LaMont OyeWale’ Badru and Anthony Bailey. Photo by Ryan Deffenbaugh The PowerLab, a co-working and incubator space in southwest Yonkers, celebrated its grand opening last month, a major step for a project that its nonprofit founder hopes will bring new economic opportunity to its neighborhood. Stand…

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  • Artificial intelligence will be important this holiday shopping season even if shoppers don’t know it

    MarketWatch.com – Top Stories

    Customers with questions about their online orders this holiday shopping season may think they’re asking a seasonal worker for help, but artificial intelligence (AI) is likely giving them the information they need. Technology of all kinds is being used on the back end of retail, to organize inventory and manage other operational functions. Whether it’s chatting with a bot or with Alexa, AI is also increasingly becoming a part of the consumer-facing shopping process in ways that, at least for now…

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  • Founders Fund backs Home61, a real estate platform for the middle class

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    Most real estate agents are commission-based and incentivized to focus on the big sales. That results in inefficiencies for lower class home buyers, who may have to wait longer to view properties and receive less guidance on paperwork. A Miami-based startup called Home61 has been working on a solution for this category of buyers and renters, which it refers to as the “other 80%.” Home 61 is building “an ecosystem for real estate for the mass market,” founder and CEO Olivier Grinda tells TechCrun…

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  • Clock ticking as New York City’s bid for Amazon takes shape

    Crains New York – Everything Real Estate

    New York has 13 days to finish crafting the perfect plan to land Amazon’s second headquarters—and beat out more than 100 other cities that have indicated interest. Across the five boroughs developers and civic leaders worked frantically in late September to turn in over two dozen site proposals in 23 neighborhoods for consideration. Now, a coalition of city and state agencies are working behind closed doors to put together a bid by Oct. 19. The nationwide process will be competitive, but analyst…

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  • Can tech firms, startups fuel job growth and new office requirements in New Jersey?

    Real Estate NJ

    Newark Venture Partners, a $50 million venture capital fund, works out of a 25,000-square-foot co-working space in One Washington Park in Newark. The fund launched in 2015 with the backing of Audible, Prudential Financial and other corporate anchors in Newark, seeking to promote the growth of startups while helping to build a larger tech community in the city. — Courtesy: Newark Venture Partners By Joshua Burd On the seventh floor of an office tower in downtown Newark, a venture capital fund is …

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  • Switch Inc. Joins The Ranks Of Largest Tech IPOs This Year

    Bisnow – National Commercial Real Estate News

    Switch Inc. has officially become the third-largest technology IPO this year. The Las Vegas-based data center company raised $531M after selling 31.25 million shares at $17 each, Bloomberg reports. Only Snap Inc.’s $3.9B initial public offering and Altice USA Inc.’s $2.2B share sale have come in ahead of the Switch deal. Switch began listing on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday under the symbol SWCH. Shares soared 44% from $7.42 to $24.42 within the first five minutes, MarketWatch reports. G…

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