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  • WoI Speaker: How Colliers Uses Tech in Property Management

    GLOBEST

    Washington, DC—As GlobeSt’s Women of Influence conference launches this week, we have caught up with another speaker—Karen Whitt, president of Colliers International’s US Real Estate Management Services platform. As part of her role, Whitt oversees property management assignments nationwide and leads business development activities. “One of the most interesting things about this job is finding ways to improve the ways real estate works for our clients. Often we are able to identify problems t…

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  • Tech VC Deal Volume Grows in June

    GLOBEST

    Commercial real estate technology venture capital dollar volume increased again in June. According to the latest CRE Tech report, venture capital dollar volume hit $1.1 billion in June, a year-over-year increase of 69%. It was the fourth consecutive month that investment surpassed $1 billion. Deal volume was also strong for the month. In June, 43 companies received venture funding, a 95.5% increase month-over-month, and a 22.9% increase in deal volume year-over-year. These are new records …

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  • SoftBank Chip-Design Unit Yet to Conquer Internet of Things

    WSJ

    LONDON— SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 0.46% founder Masayoshi Son paid $32 billion for a giant, behind-the-scenes chip designer in hopes it could branch out and dominate the emerging market for connected devices. But so far it hasn’t delivered. U.K.-based Arm has struggled to develop and sell the software expected to underpin what is known as the Internet of Things, according to people familiar with the matter. The term refers to the growing internet connectivity of such everyday devices as cars …

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  • CREtech Announces Co-Founders of JLL Spark as Keynote Speakers for October 16 and 17th NYC Conference

    CREtech

    The World’s Most Influential Commercial Real Estate Tech Conference Is Coming To Brooklyn New York, NY (July 9, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com), the leading event, content and connectivity platform for the commercial real estate technology industry has announced the addition of JLL Spark’s Co-CEOs as confirmed speakers for their flagship NYC conference. The 2019 CREtech NYC Conference will be held on October 16th and 17th at Dock72 in Brooklyn and will be the largest commercial real estate tech c…

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  • Final Hours to Purchase Early Bird Pass for CREtech New York

    CREtech

    Final hours to save big on an all-access pass for the commercial real estate tech industry’s leading conference. Sale ends tonight!

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  • Free Whitepaper: Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the Built World

    NAVITAS CAPITAL

    Navitas Capital believes we are on the verge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) disrupting the massive and technologically analog industries of real estate and construction. We may even go so far as to claim AI will likely be the single largest innovation catalyst creating shifts in value in the built world, effecting the way our industry invests, builds, operates, and maintains real estate.

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  • Soho House’s landlords land $205M loan for Dumbo office conversion

    THE REAL DEAL

    Glacier Global Partners and Triangle Assets took out a $205 million refinancing on their Dumbo office redevelopment, which will be home to Soho House’s new co-working venture. French bank Natixis provided the sponsors with the floating-rate loan on the property at 10 Jay Street, brokers who arranged the debt told The Real Deal. Newmark Knight Frank’s Dustin Stolly secured the financing for the sponsors, along with colleagues Jordan Roeschlaub, Dylan Kane, Chris Kramer and Nick Scribani….

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  • Innovative Tech Tools for REALTORS® From the REACH Class of 2019

    RIS MEDIA

    In real estate, and every other industry, technological change is as exciting as it is inevitable. But the number and pace of new technologies coming to market can be mind-boggling. So how do you decide what tech will best benefit your customers and provide the most value for your business? The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) has done the legwork and taken the guesswork out of this challenging question. The REACH technology accelerator, developed by Second Century Ventures (SCV), NAR’…

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  • What Will RCM’s LightBox Merger Mean for Users?

    GLOBEST

    LightBox’s recent acquisition of Real Capital Markets has given the global commercial real estate marketplace a swift data boost. For brokers, that is great news. According to leaders at the company, the access to data will allow users to make even better, more informed investment decisions. In commercial real estate, that is the goal. In the long term, however, the merger will set RCM up for more long-term growth and proves they are serious about technology and software performance….

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  • Facial-recognition startup pushes ahead despite controversy surrounding the technology

    CRAINS NEW YORK

    Longtime Google engineer Chaim Fried built his first surveillance system, around his Brooklyn home, five years ago, after his family lost all its valuables in a daytime burglary. Then his bicycle was stolen from his fenced-in backyard in plain view of a camera, which taught him another lesson: The system was sending him so many alerts that he had stopped paying attention….

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