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  • How Mishcon de Reya is Liberating its Lawyers Through PropTech

    Hightower Blog

    This guest post comes to us from Susan Freeman, Partner at Mishcon de Reya.  The writing on the wall couldn't really be clearer: the real estate world, not generally seen as being in the vanguard of change, is having to adapt to fast-moving technological advancements. Whether it's online listings, virtual reality, machine learning, drones, big data or crowdsourcing, ignoring the tsunami of innovation is just no longer an option. The way lawyers do business is already changing and at Mi…

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  • LEVERTON signs funding round with DAH and Anyon

    LEVERTON

    LEVERTON signs funding round with DAH and Anyon LEVERTON, an intelligent information extraction and document management platform, has secured a funding round of up to € 10 million (c. US$ 11.2 million) with DAH Beteiligungs GmbH (“DAH“) and Anyon Holding GmbH (“Anyon”). LEVERTON is the leading artificial intelligence platform for smart data and document management for corporate documents in more than 20 languages. The new funding will further accelerate LEVERTON’s international growth, help stre…

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  • Robot-run Japanese hotel plans world dominance with 100 new locations

    Curbed – National News

    Editor's Note: This post was originally published in August 2015 and has been updated with the most recent information. If people just aren’t your thing, check out the Henna Na hotel in southwestern Japan. Instead of your normal—and let’s face it, mercurial—hotel staff, you’ll get 140 robots catering to your every whim. Now, the two concerns weighing equally on your mind are probably 1) I hope there isn't a power outage, and 2) I hope I'm not a protagonist in a movie that ends wit…

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  • Amitree raises $7 million to provide a Gmail assistant for real estate agents

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    Real estate tech startup Amitree is making life easier for real estate agents, which it hopes will make life even easier for the homebuyers they work with. The company has raised $7 million to grow its Folio assistant for real estate agents. It’s been a long, strange trip for Amitree. The company originally launched with a consumer-facing tool to help usher homebuyers through the closing process. Called Closing Time, that product was a kind of to-do list with all the things a consumer needed to …

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  • Epproach Communications to Provide Residents of Excelsior Park Apartments with State-of-the-Art Managed Smart Home Capabilities for the Multifamily Space

    Epproach Communications

    SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – Seeking to provide residents with a state-of-the-art living experience that exceeds expectations, Excelsior Park, a community owned and operated by Burns Management and located in Saratoga Springs, NY, has partnered with Epproach Communications, a leading provider of high-tech amenities in the apartment industry, to install a site-wide multifamily smart home solution.   Most smart home solutions are not engineered or designed for multifamily use. These solutions are focuse…

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  • TOP 4 MOST COMPELLING STATISTICS FROM NEW NAR RESEARCH

    CommissionTrac

    The National Association of Realtors has released its long awaited Commercial Real Estate ALERT which analyzes the latest trends in CRE. We’re breaking down some of their top findings with 4 compelling statistics: 1. 84% Of CRE executives see technology as the answer to industry complexity This was the finding of a global survey conducted by KMPG. The day of “mom and pops” managing regionally is over. Owners now handle complex and often global portfolios. This gives rise to an increased number o…

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  • AI IN E-COMMERCE: How artificial intelligence can help retailers deliver the highly personalized experiences shoppers desire

    Business Insider – Retail

    One of retailers' top priorities is to figure out how to gain an edge over Amazon. To do this, many retailers are attempting to differentiate themselves by creating highly curated experiences that combine the personal feel of in-store shopping with the convenience of online portals. These personalized online experiences are powered by artificial intelligence (AI). This is the technology that enables e-commerce websites to recommend products uniquely suited to shoppers, and enables people to…

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  • WeWork just raised another $4.4 billion from SoftBank

    Business Insider – Tech

    WeWork has raised $4.4 billion in funding from SoftBank Group and SoftBank Vision Fund, the office sharing startup announced Thursday.  SoftBank is investing $3 billion in WeWork itself, and putting another $1.4 billion into three new WeWork subsidiaries — WeWork China, WeWork Japan, and WeWork Pacific.  As part of the investments, SoftBank will is naming two directors to WeWork's board: Ronald D. Fisher, a director of SoftBank Group; and Mark Schwartz, an external director of SoftBank Grou…

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  • Apple gets $208M in tax breaks to build Iowa data center

    Seattle Post Intelligencer – Business News

    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa approved a deal Thursday to give Apple $208 million in state and local tax breaks to build two data storage centers near Des Moines and the promise to create 50 jobs. The deal approved by the Iowa Economic Development Authority includes a refund of $19.6 million in state sale taxes for Apple Inc. and a $188 million break on property taxes from Waukee, a booming suburb bordering Des Moines. In addition to the promised 50 jobs, Apple has agreed to buy 2,000 acres of la…

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  • Shopping by voice on Amazon or Google device could cost you

    Seattle Post Intelligencer – Business News

    NEW YORK (AP) — In the name of convenience, Amazon and Walmart are pushing people to shop by just talking to a digital assistant. Shopping by voice means giving orders to the Alexa assistant on Amazon's Echo speaker and other devices, even if your hands are tied up with dinner or dirty diapers. And next month, Walmart will start offering voice shopping, too, with the Google Assistant on the rival Home speaker. Such voice shopping hasn't really caught on yet, but if it does, look out — …

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