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High-tech umbrella follows the sun to give you shade

Curbed – National News

8/22/2017

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…

Deep Learning: Its Time Has Come

CoreNet Global Summit Talk

8/22/2017

CoreNet Global The Pulse Blog Search Deep Learning: Its Time Has ComeAugust 22, 2017|In CoreNet Global News|By David Harrison “Alexa, when will artificial intelligence start to impact the way that we do business in noticeable ways?” Alexa: It already has. That’s the point being made by Abhinav Somani, Chief Revenue Officer, LEVERTON Corporation, in a new white paper for CoreNet Global. Somani distiguishes between artificial intelligence as we commonly think of it, and subcategories including mac…

Will cities adapt when automation reshapes the job market?

Curbed – National News

8/22/2017

Watch out, Rust Belt: The robots are coming. And they’re after one of the more precious resources in these beleaguered U.S. manufacturing hubs: jobs. That, at least, is the implication of a new analysis by the Brookings Institute, “Where the robots are,” that suggests the rise of robotics and automation will clobber the same areas hit by manufacturing’s decline, as technology radically changes how things get made (and how many workers are necessary to make them). Since industrial robots work bes…

Tulip Retail Raises $40 Million, Led by Kleiner Perkins

Tulip Retail – News

8/22/2017

Tulip Retail Raises $40 Million, Led by Kleiner PerkinsAs seen on PR Newswire. Series B Round Led by Kleiner Perkins With Participation from Existing Investors Including Jump Capital NEW YORK, August 22, 2017 – Tulip, a mobile application platform built exclusively for retail stores and sales associates, today announced it has raised $40 million in Series B funding. Kleiner Perkins led the round and joined existing investors, including Jump Capital. Additionally, Mood Rowghani, General Partner…

Do you do the Hustle!?

Michael Beckerman

8/22/2017

I was listening to a great podcast the other day featuring Jenn Hyman, the founder of Rent The Runway. Really amazing story how she built this company, with her co-founder, from scratch. One of the great stories is how she met with Diane Von Furstenberg. Amazing story about how they just refused to take no for an answer and knocked down every wall on their way to building a hugely successful company.Listening to this podcast…

Amazon Hints at Possible Real Estate Services Expansion

CRETECH

8/22/2017

Will your next real estate agent come with free two-day shipping? Amazon surprised the world by acquiring grocer Whole Foods. Could the online retail giant spread into real estate be next? Maybe, according to what happened on July 11, Amazon’s Prime day. A “hire a realtor” button appeared on the online retail giant’s web site, creating a huge buzz in the real estate industry. Amazon offers a Home and Business Services section where consumers search for local professional services. Find a h…

Totem Brooklyn

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8/22/2017

CONTACTTucker Reed, Principal, Totem BrooklynTHE SCOOPTucker Reed is THE man! What a cool dude. Big guy…or maybe I am just getting smaller 🙁 Full of passion and ideas. My kinda guy. Adjunct Professor at NYU. President of Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. Director of Special Projects at Two Trees Management. Tucker is Mr. Brooklyn.His accomplishments are sick. He helped Downtown Brooklyn achieve historically low commercial office vacancy rates and attracted nearly $7 billion dol…

Acasa is building a platform for ‘Generation Rent’ to manage their homes

TechCrunch – Startups

8/22/2017

Acasa is building a platform for ‘Generation Rent' to manage their homes Posted 5 hours ago by Steve O'Hear (@sohear) 0 SHARES Next Story eBay opens U.S. platform to Africa with MallforAfrica.com partnership London-based startup Acasa has come a long way since we covered its seed round in late 2015. The company, then called Splittable, offered a way to manage and share household expenses with multiple house members. However, the bigger vision was to build a platform for ‘Generation Ren…

Walmart Files Patent For Floating Warehouse

Bisnow – National Commercial Real Estate News

8/22/2017

Walmart is taking the competition up a notch, or rather, a few hundred feet. In a move that comes nearly a year after Amazon was awarded a patent for a similar concept, the retail giant applied for a U.S. patent for a floating warehouse, Bloomberg reports. The blimp would float above the country between 500 feet and 1,000 feet and would be operated autonomously or by a remote human pilot. The floating warehouse would contain multiple launching bays and would have drones picking up and delivering…

Walmart wants to copy Amazon’s flying warehouse idea

New York Post – Business News

8/22/2017

Walmart wants to mimic Amazon’s far-out technology again — and this time the copycatting involves blimps. The Arkansas-based retailer has filed a patent for a “gas-filled aerial transport” — basically a blimp that would serve as a flying warehouse full of inventory to be picked up and delivered by drones. That’s on the heels of Amazon — whose plans to use drones at its warehouses on the ground have likewise inspired a Walmart drone program — filing a patent for a blimp-like warehouse in April 20…

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High-tech umbrella follows the sun to give you shade

Deep Learning: Its Time Has Come

Will cities adapt when automation reshapes the job market?

Tulip Retail Raises $40 Million, Led by Kleiner Perkins

Do you do the Hustle!?

Amazon Hints at Possible Real Estate Services Expansion

Totem Brooklyn

Acasa is building a platform for ‘Generation Rent’ to manage their homes

Walmart Files Patent For Floating Warehouse

Walmart wants to copy Amazon’s flying warehouse idea

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