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CONTACTElizabeth Dukes, Partner, iOFFICETHE SCOOPAnother one of these hugely successful real estate tech companies I never heard of that are doing killer business under the radar screen. I had the pleasure of meeting Elizabeth at RealComm in San Diego. Was so impressed with her and the company she has helped build with CEO and Co-Founder Don Traweek. Their Houston-based company iOFFICECORP.COM is a 100% cloud-based IWMS/CAFM software provider that h…
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Scale resources according to your dealflow – rather than the other way around. StealthForce.com has built an army of real estate investment professionals from analyst level through C-suite, and designed a platform which makes them available for project-based consulting, on-demand. Investors, developers, auditors, family offices and even CREtech startups leverage their network to hire conflict-free, experienced industry veterans for everything from building an excel model to building SOPs for ass…
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Walmart & Google Team For Voice-Activated Shopping August 23, 2017 6:26 AM Filed Under: google, Shopping, walmart NEW YORK (AP) – Walmart is diving into voice-activated shopping. But unlike online leader Amazon, it's not doing it alone. The world's largest retailer said Wednesday it's working with Google to offer hundreds of thousands of items from laundry detergent to Legos for voice shopping through Google Assistant. The capability will be available in late September. It…
The Broker List Blog
It can be a daunting task to find commercial real estate leads that are a good fit for your business. And by now, you’ve probably worn out your list of referrals from friends and family, and it’s time to find another avenue. So, where’s the next place you should look? What options are available to you? You guessed it, the answer is social media! 207 million people in the United States use social media, so of course, it should be an integral part of your marketing and sales strategy. Besides post…
BuildOut Blog
Google predicts driverless cars will be commercially available by 2020. This seismic shift in how people get from place to place will change where and how we as a society live and work. The future of commercial driverless cars Think you’ll own your own driverless car that will sit idly when not in use? Think again. Driverless cars will be a utility, not a luxury afforded to few. People will no longer own their own cars, but driverless cars will be as ubiquitous and inexpensive as public transpor…
TechCrunch – All Stories
Walmart and Google are today announcing a new partnership that will enable voice shopping through Google Assistant, Google’s virtual assistant that lives on devices like its smart speaker, Google Home. Specifically, consumers will now be able to take advantage of Walmart’s “Easy Reorder” feature through an integration with Google’s shopping service, Google Express. This will allow consumers to shop from hundreds of thousands of Walmart products just by speaking, the companies explain. Related to…
TechCrunch – All Stories
Jim Clark just can’t quit starting companies. The billionaire cofounder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape, myCFO, Healtheon, and Shutterfly, moved to Florida roughly 16 years ago to dive into the Miami real estate market. Now Clark, a native Texan who dropped out of high school, is back with a new tech startup: CommandScape, a home-automation and building-control system that controls air conditioning, motorized shades, surveillance, lighting, fire alarms and other functions from a highly secure onli…
Digsy AI Blog
Customer relationship management (CRM) is a critical key to success in commercial real estate. Yet according to an executive survey by Merkle, up to 60% of CRM systems will fail. After surveying 352 senior level executives in organizations worth one billion dollars or more, Merkle reported that companies that fail to see the importance of CRM are consistently low-growth. Additionally, high-growth companies were 50% more likely to recognize the strategic value of CRM system implementation. One co…
CB Insights Blog
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Curbed – National News
Home-tech aficionados who already have robotic dog toys, smart salt shakers, and wireless turntables, here’s your next big product: A solar-powered, 7-square-foot umbrella that rotates and tilts as the sun moves across the sky. The ShadeCraft Sunflower solves a problem you didn’t even know you had. Instead of having to laboriously move your $29.99 Target umbrella to stay in the shade all day, the Sunflower uses multiple sensors to tract the sun and automatically adjust its shade. These same sens…
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