This new Seattle high-rise condo tower will come with Tesla cars that residents can rent

A high-rise condo complex under construction near Seattle’s Pike Place Market will come with an interesting perk for residents: On-demand Tesla vehicles. Developers of The Emerald are partnering with Envoy Technologies, a Culver City, Calif. company that sets up on-demand vehicle pools for office buildings, hotels and housing complexes. Through Envoy’s app, residents of The Emerald will be able to reserve Tesla Model X and Model S vehicles “by the minute, hour, or day,” according to a press r…

Up Close: Inside Samsung’s high-tech, immersive ‘Experience Store’

Samsung has opened its first mall-based stores, locations that allow customers to get up close and personal with its newest products. The world’s biggest cell phone and TV maker has opened a permanent store in Roosevelt Field, in Garden City. Billed as the “Samsung Experience Store,” the 2,500-sq.-ft. space  is a tech playground that immerses customers in the Samsung brand and enables customers to interact with new Samsung products in innovative ways. And all the goods on display are for sale…

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Geosocial – a new untapped data source for retailers and property owners

CINCINNATI, April. 18, 2019 – Spatial.ai is pleased to announce the launch of it’s “GeoSocial” dataset that organizes billions of social media conversations into 70+ actionable segments revealing the personalities, attitudes, and interests of communities at the block level. Retailers, Property Owners, and Brokerages equipped with Geosocial data can use social media as a precise lens into who customers are, where they are, and how they behave. And ultimately see how a community’s social charac…

SMALL CITIES SPENDING BIG ON DRIVERLESS CARS, 5G TO GET AHEAD

One day in February, representatives from various Fortune 500 companies gathered on the shoulder of a quiet road in a small suburb of Atlanta called Peachtree Corners. They were there to watch a truck whose driver was, at that moment, 2,471 miles away in Mountain View, California. This was one of the first tests of an autonomous vehicle on the new $2M test track Peachtree Corners is developing with Sprint called Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners. The 1.5-mile stretch of road meanders thro…

The keyboard will be gone in five years and voice tech is ‘the opportunity of a decade,’ investor says

Voice-enabled technology will end the need for keyboards within five years, and investors should put their money into the space, a venture capitalist with a track record for successful bets has told CNBC. “What’s clear to me today is that the keyboard in five years will be gone as an input device,” Mark Tluszcz, co-founder and CEO of Mangrove Capital Partners, said in an interview this week.

Proptech Advancements May Be a Game-Changer for Commercial Real Estate

A new generation of innovative software platforms can do everything from monitoring buildings’ energy and water use in real time to providing tenant workforces with on-site access to medical treatment and other quality-of-life-enhancing services, according to panelists at ULI’s 2019 Spring Meeting in Nashville. Those applications, collectively known as proptech, could dramatically alter the commercial real estate business by creating new ways to generate value for tenants, and it could make buil…

Suffolk Launches Smart Lab Concept in L.A.

Construction company Suffolk is looking to disrupt the construction process as we know it with their Smart Lab concept, which uses interactive technology to help developers and owners reduce construction costs and time. Suffolk is launching the Smart Lab in Los Angeles, and is working on DTLA’s Park 5th, Hollywood’s Tommie and Thompson Hotels projects.

Investment In Real Estate Tech Companies Up 607% Year Over Year (But Only If You Count The We Company)

Investor eagerness to put money into real estate tech companies reached new highs during the first quarter of 2019, according to a new report by CRETech. Global investment in real estate tech companies spiked by 607% from Q1 2018 to Q1 2019 to $9.9B, the largest gain in real estate tech history, the report says.

Uber’s self-driving car unit raises $1B from Toyota, Denso and Vision Fund ahead of spin-out

Uber has confirmed it will spin out its self-driving car business after the unit closed $1 billion in funding from Toyota, auto-parts maker Denso and SoftBank’s Vision Fund. The development has been speculated for some time — as far back as October — and it serves to both remove a deeply unprofitable unit from the main Uber business, helping Uber scale back some of its losses, while giving Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group (known as Uber ATG) more freedom to focus on the tough challenge of br…