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  • Wal-Mart takes a cue from Amazon and applies for its own drone-deploying blimp patent

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is taking on Amazon in what appears to be a copycat move — by applying for a drone-deploying blimp patent. You may recall about a year ago Amazon filed a patent for a flying warehouse that will send drones to your door. Now Walmart wants in on Amazon’s idea. The patent application, first noted in Bloomberg, shows the Walmart blimp would float about 500 to 1,000 feet in the air and contain multiple launching bays from which both human controlled and autonomous drones could fl…

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  • Start-up incubator EvoNexus to close downtown site, consolidate in new, larger UTC location

    San Diego Union Tribune General News Headlines

    Start-up incubator EvoNexus to close downtown site, consolidate in new, larger UTC location Hayne Palmour IV Marius Buibas, co-founder of Accel Robotics, works on a prototype sales assistant robot at San Diego's EvoNexus start-up incubator in University City. Marius Buibas, co-founder of Accel Robotics, works on a prototype sales assistant robot at San Diego's EvoNexus start-up incubator in University City. (Hayne Palmour IV) Mike FreemanContact Reporter San Diego start-up incubator Ev…

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  • Latest Apple Park drone video shows Steve Jobs’ tree-filled vision spring to life

    BizJournal – Commercial Real Estate

    Apple Park is edging ever closer to completion in Cupertino, a new drone video taken this month shows. The latest aerial video is shot by Matthew Roberts, who has been chronicling construction at Apple Inc.’s new $5 billion headquarters on a monthly basis. The new video shows that since July, Apple has made progress on the landscaping and has moved forward with paving sections of the campus. Landscaping was one of the big design features of the headquarters, which was the last major project of…

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  • FINTECH FOR COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE? HERE’S 12 REASONS WHY.

    VersaPay

    According to KPMG, this year in Q1 2017 global investment in FinTech companies hit $3.2 billion across 260 deals… and this is just the beginning. The way the internet changed publishing and music, FinTech is now changing industries like commercial real-estate (CRE) by modernizing the old-school processes used by finance. It’s no secret that collecting receivables for CRE companies is a challenge and managing multiple tenants can be frustrating. Without an effective platform to communicate rent c…

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  • SpaceList and Common Areas Form Strategic International Alliance to Connect Commercial Real Estate—from Listing to Lawns, Leaks and Lights.

    Common Areas

    Alliance will help bridge the gap between listing a commercial real estate space and maintaining it     Vancouver, British Columbia and Tustin, California — Aug. 21, 2017 — SpaceList and Common Areas, two outcome-driven commercial real estate software companies, today announced the formation of a strategic international alliance to help (building owners, brokers, property/facility managers, tenants and service providers) bridge the gap between leasing a space and maintaining it.   SpaceList, bas…

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  • A growth area in the making?

    Real Estate NJ

    I’ve been lucky enough to cover this industry during a time of economic expansion, meaning our pages and our website seem to feature more good news than the type of doom-and-gloom stories you’ll see when the market has hit the skids. That said, I’ve always had to temper my enthusiasm when it comes to New Jersey’s office market. Even good news such as a blockbuster lease or the rare new development project comes with a caveat: Those companies are typically trading up and leaving behind older, les…

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  • How Technology is Transforming Modern-Day Portfolio Management

    Hightower Blog

    The days of lagging portfolio information and manual data aggregation are quickly falling behind us. Large investment management firms are adopting new technologies to ensure they have asset information at their fingertips in real-time, ultimately helping them drive portfolio performance. LaSalle Investment Management’s Head of U.S. Asset Management, Kristy Heuberger, Invesco’s Managing Director, Michael Kirby, and New York Life Insurance Company’s Senior Director, Regional Head of Asset Managem…

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  • Transitioning Building Design to a Future of Compact, Driverless Cars

    Urban Land Magazine

    Transitioning Building Design to a Future of Compact, Driverless Cars By Kerry Curry August 21, 2017 Text Size: A A A Print Email Share Facebook LinkedIn Twitter A hypothetical downtown Los Angeles building helps Gensler illustrate how a parking garage can transform into a variety of public and cultural uses over time with modular design. (Gensler) As soon as 2030, the trend toward fewer and smaller cars will mean a reduced need for wide roads and parking, reshaping cities and how people interac…

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  • Top Apps Landlords Should Be Using for Better Property Management

    Rentometer Blog

    For almost every job, there is a wealth of apps available to help make your endeavors easier, quicker, and more efficient. As a landlord, you’re a business owner, so anything that can make your life easier is essential. Here are the top apps you should get familiar with in order for your business to thrive. MobileLandlord This app is meant to help you keep track of everything involving your different properties all in one place. MobileLandlord allows you to make up to five property profiles, and…

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  • Standard Cognition Announces First Commercially Available Checkout-free AI Shopping System

    Marketwired – Computers & Software

    PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwired- Aug 21, 2017)- Standard Cognition, which is eliminating the hassle of retail checkout by removing it entirely, announced today the initial launch of its artificial intelligence-based system that lets consumers shop and pay without scanning or stopping to check out. An alternative to Amazon Go, the Standard Cognition platform is available to any retailer, helping to reduce their labor costs, improve the customer experience, and increase profit margins by up to 100 per…

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