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CONTACTSCrystal Cortez, Partner Operations Specialist, Google MapsInge Keuppens, Program Manager, Google MapsTHE SCOOPGot a great tour of the Google Campus in Mountain View, CA from Crystal and Inge. Felt like a typical tourist (in a good way) as we visited the famous campus. We saw multi-colored bicycles that Googlers use to get between campus buildings, amazing outdoor recreation, the bowling alley, rock walls, organic gardens and quirky candy statues.When we sat do…
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CONTACTAlex MacKay, CEO and Founder, CWWR THE SCOOPHad a nice chat with Alex who is based in Toronto. Alex reached out to me to talk about the U.S. CRE Tech market. Alex is advising a client who is considering investing in the space. I offered my perspective on where I thought the opportunities and challenges were and we spoke about which sectors had the most potential and where we are currently in the CRE tech cycle….
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I am blessed to get to meet a lot of really cool people in my job of running our collection of real estate news, curation and connectivity sites focused on the tech sector. It’s how I spend most of my days just talking, meeting and connecting with as many people in the space as possible. My amazing team thought it would be cool for me to share some of the more notable and interesting meet-ups along the way. So here we go!Thanks for tuning in. P.S. Would love to chat with you about your…
Michael Beckerman
Here are my favorite Real Estate Tech reads from this past week. Happy reading! SiteCompli Enhances Industry-Leading Software with “The Automation Release”Press Release – SiteCompliProperty managers and owners rely on a keen sense of foresight to stay at the head of the pack – and since 2011, those who chose SiteCompli as their partner in property manageme…
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Who wouldn’t be excited about shorter commutes, especially in traffic-choked cities like Los Angeles? And while we laughed at the clap-on, clap-off commercials as kids, how cool is it to walk down a grocery aisle and watch the motion-activated lights click on and off? Smart tech has transformed our day-to-day operations in ways the average consumer no longer notices, but for urban planners and CRE professionals, the smart cities innovation trend is just ramping up. A number of startups are reima…
The Square Foot Blog
Even before it shipped to a single user, the Light Phone was one of the most compelling riddles in tech. Its slight appearance and even more enigmatic function has challenged users in a way that the current tech vanguard isn't exactly known for: Surfacing important philosophical questions, not just inventing a way for urbanites to lead slightly more convenient lives. Can the mysterious Light Phone save us from distraction? SquareFoot
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When HousesforSale.com first launched its proof of concept website, the servers crashed and the Dallas-Fort Worth zip codes sold out within four hours. Less than a month after releasing its new platform, the national real estate agent portal is now ranking on page two of Bing search results and has 1.5 million listings currently published on the platform. The future certainly looks bright for this young startup.The key to success, according to CEO and founder John Brown, is all-around exclusivit…
Michael Beckerman
My amazing team at The News Funnel, our Content Marketing blog and agency, Real Estate Tech News and CRE // Tech get asked all the time for tips and suggestions on how to create great content. Since our entire platform is devoted to creating, distributing and curating commercial real estate content, we study this stuff pretty intensely. And my own background building one of the pre-eminent PR firms in the industry gave me a front row seat to what’s good content and what isn’t.Here are some of th…
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Building relationships that lead to successful deal-making hinge on having the right tools to make your database efficient. That’s why CRE professionals rely on Clientlook, a smart and intuitive customer relationship management tool founded in 2008 for commercial real estate professionals. Clientlook ProductThe Clientlook CRM provides contact management, …
REthink
Big data, by definition, is large sets of data that can be incredibly complex and extensive. The data can be gathered and extracted from many different sources, and the number of sources are increasing constantly in the current age of technology. The data is being extracted from social media activity, internet browsing activity and even location information based on your mobile device and where you are. Big Data 101: For Real Estate Brokers REthink
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