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  • China is building a 5G smart highway for autonomous cars and AI traffic monitoring

    VENTUREBEAT

    China is moving forward in the global “race to 5G,” as state-owned carrier China Mobile has announced (via Xinhua) that it’s already building the first 5G smart highway — a city-scale system of roads capable of supporting cellular network-coordinated transportation services. The infrastructure is currently under construction in Wuhan, the capital of China’s centrally located Hubei Province. As the country’s largest telecommunications company, China Mobile plans to roll out a collection of 5G …

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  • Silicon Valley Brothers Build Billion Dollar Cyber-Security Fortunes

    BLOOMBERG

    Cybersecurity has unlocked riches for Ken and Michael Xie. The Chinese-born brothers are now billionaires from their stakes in Fortinet Inc., the Silicon Valley-based network security software firm they co-founded almost two decades ago, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Spurred by high-profile data breaches and malware attacks, cybersecurity has become a growing priority for companies. Cloud-focused firms including Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks Inc. have benefited as busine…

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  • How Cities Are Evolving to Meet the Sharp Rise in Shipping Demands

    BLUEPRINT – CBRE

    As online shopping cements its place in the current retail industry, cities have to contend with the rise in urban freight trips, package deliveries and other associated factors. Plus, expedited options like two-day, one-day, overnight and two-hour delivery have forced the shipping logistics industry to become more agile. For retailers, meeting that demand means shoring up last-mile fulfillment strategies, expanding distribution channels and even working with outside delivery providers. But f…

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  • Why Brokers Can’t Sleep on Tech

    GLOBEST

    BOSTON—The effect of technology on commercial real estate brokerage will be one of re-intermediation, not disintermediation, asserts Kevin Maggiacomo, CEO and president of SVN International Corp. (SVN). High-tech innovation is having a profound and positive effect on the roles and goals of expert CRE brokers, making them more efficient and effective in the process. “What’s missing from most of the disintermediation questions posed to me is an appreciation for the wide range of possibilities a…

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  • Toronto’s OneEleven launches space in London, but will its scale-up services fly?

    TECHCRUNCH

    Last time I checked, London was awash with co-working spaces, shared office spaces, spaces of every shape, size and color. If there’s one sector that always makes money during a boom, it’s the sector that makes the spades and pick-axes for the gold-rush. And that’s exactly what’s happened to London’s tech scene: a property boom. In the last year at least we’ve seen WeWork expand to 31 locations in London alone. Meanwhile, its well-funded native U.S. challenger from New York, Knotel (which has a…

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  • Commercial Brokers Association (CBA) Select RealNex MP Exchange to host Regional Commercial Listing Platform

    REALNEX

    Stafford, TX February 13, 2019– RealNex, a commercial real estate technology company, announced today it has been selected to provide its MP Exchange Commercial Property Listing System service to the Commercial Brokers Association (CBA). The new services, hosted on the CBA website www.cbassn.org, will showcase the commercial real estate listings and profiles of CBA members. The RealNex MarketPlace is a global solution to list, search and market commercial property. The site includes over 250,…

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  • JLL credits rise of co-working, new proptech investments for big Q4 revenue boost

    THE REAL DEAL

    JLL CEO Christian Ulbrich credited his firm’s growing focus on co-working and real estate technology investments for $4.9 billion in reported revenue in the fourth quarter, a 13 percent increase year over year. The boost was driven in part by a 25 percent year-over-year increase in global leasing revenue for the Chicago-based real estate services giant, with a 34 percent spike in the Americas alone, Ulbrich said during an earnings call Tuesday. Shares in JLL rose nearly 16 percent on the n…

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  • Exclusive Interview with CEO and Co-Founder, Guy Zipori of Skyline AI

    CRETech

    Skyline AI is an artificial intelligence asset manager for commercial real estate. Skyline AI partners with leading commercial real estate firms to establish next-generation investment vehicles augmented by artificial intelligence. Using a proprietary ensemble of both supervised and unsupervised machine learning models, Skyline AI produces deep, hyper-accurate predictions regarding any asset in the United States. Founded in 2017, Skyline AI is backed by Sequoia Capital, JLL (NYSE: JLL), Nyca Par…

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  • How Co-Living Fits Into The Future Of Real Estate Development

    FORBES

    In many areas of the country, older buildings and neighborhoods are falling to ruin. What if you could invest in these areas and not only rejuvenate the neighborhood, but increase available housing at the same time? As a real estate developer, you can, by creating co-living buildings. Over the past few years, companies like WeWork have changed the way we imagine office spaces. Many small businesses are beginning to resemble tech companies with communal areas and weekly activities. By trading in…

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  • Will Co-Living Follow the Success of Coworking?

    KNOWLEDGE LEADER

    You’ve heard about coworking’s enormous success in a multitude of U.S. markets. But will co-living follow in its footsteps? The answer is hazy—while some U.S. markets might not see this trend take off in the near future, in other markets, early adoption is more likely. Co-living is certainly gaining traction in Europe. In December 2018, Medici Living, a co-living company based in Berlin, raised $1.1 billion U.S. dollars to build a portfolio of as many as 35 co-living properties across Europe. It…

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