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  • BizTech Shares Retail Innovation Projections for 2019

    The News Funnel

    The retail market successfully emerged into 2019 with a bright future ahead, but that doesn’t mean the industry as a whole isn’t looking to minimize costs moving forward. Particularly in terms of IT. “Everybody wants to innovate, but as inexpensively as possible,” said Sucharita Kodali, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, according to BizTech. As far as this year’s foresight goes, the following are Kodali’s major projected areas of retail interest: shopper personalization…

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  • Airbnb acquires Danish startup used to book meeting spaces for just a couple hours or days

    Business Insider

    Airbnb has acquired Gaest.com, an online marketplace for renting out meeting spaces for just hours at a time, the company announcedFriday. Gaest was founded in Denmark in 2015 by CEO Anders Mogensen. It’s used by guests to book spaces for meetings, team building events and “even photoshoots,” according to the press release. Gaest lets hosts list their own spaces for rent just like Airbnb lets hosts rent out their personal spaces to vacationers….

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  • Startup that wants to help developers map construction sites in “near real time” raises $2.3M

    THE REAL DEAL

    AirWorks Solutions, a property tech mapping and surveying startup, just raised $2.3 million in seed funding. Boston-based Innospark Ventures led the funding round, and the company’s managing director, Venkat Srinivasan, will join AirWorks’ board of directors, representatives for AirWorks announced on Friday.

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  • Exclusive Interview with CEO, Jeff Hendler of Logical Buildings

    CREtech

    Logical Buildings is a smart building software and solutions company that empowers property management with real-time operations data and actionable digital guidance to improve both human and building performance. Through predictive analytics and training from our Concierge team, our proptech mobile platform enables building staff to optimize building management, generating significant energy revenue and operating cost savings, resulting in higher NOI and NAV. Built by energy and telecommunicati…

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  • Where seed and early-stage funding is growing, contracting or holding steady

    TECHCRUNCH

    In startup circles, it’s trendy to talk about how entrepreneurs are leaving high-tax, high cost-of-living metros for cheaper locales. While Silicon Valley remains ground central for hobnobbing with investors, the common wisdom goes, early-stage funding stretches much further elsewhere. As memes go, it makes sense. But does the data bear this out? Is Texas turning into the new California? Is Salt Lake City edging out Seattle? Are the largest U.S. startup hubs losing their edge in luring promisin…

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  • One-quarter of jobs are at ‘high-risk’ of being automated

    TECHCRUNCH

    No one will be entirely safe from automation in the future, but according to a new study out of the Brookings Institute, around 25 percent of U.S. jobs are at “high risk.” It’s a stark bit of foreshadowing in a job market that has yet to fully rebound. Roles in transportation, food prep, production and office admin are among those at highest risk, with robotics and artificial intelligence threatening to automate in the neighborhood of 70 percent of tasks, according to the study. Activities inv…

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  • Amazon Starts Testing ‘Scout’ Delivery Robots Near Seattle

    BLOOMBERG

    Amazon.com Inc. will use robots to deliver packages in the suburbs north of Seattle, its latest experiment to automate the last-mile of delivery that’s a labor-intensive and costly component of buying products online. The e-commerce giant on Wednesday announced a trial of “Amazon Scout,” autonomous delivery devices the size of a cooler that roll along sidewalks at a walking pace. It will use six robots, which are designed to navigate around obstacles such as people and pets, to deliver packag…

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  • Startup Accelerator Network Techstars Joins The Studio Rush

    FORBES

    One of tech’s most recognizable startup accelerator programs is getting in on the rush to try a new model of company creation: the startup studio. Techstars announced on Wednesday that it’s launched Techstars Studio, a program to “co-create” companies through its network of entrepreneur alumni and corporate partners. Based out of Techstar’s home base of Boulder, Colorado, Techstars Studio will be led by Sendgrid cofounder Isaac Saldana and Mike Rowan, formerly a vice president of SendGrid Labs….

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  • As Apartments Continue To Shrink, Developers Redefine Micro-Living

    BISNOW

    If the average U.S. apartment did the Facebook 10-year challenge, it would reveal itself to be 52 SF skinnier. Renters all over the country are choosing smaller units with bigger rents, all in the name of proximity to bars, restaurants and cafés, according to a recent study by RentCafé using data by Yardi Matrix. The average size of an apartment built in 2018 in the U.S. was 941 SF — 5% smaller than an average apartment built a decade prior.

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  • How Singapore’s malls are working up a sweat

    JLL REAL VIEWS

    Singapore’s Orchard Road has been synonymous with shopping for decades. But lately shoppers are swapping sales for sweat sessions in gyms that are becoming an increasingly prevalent part of the landscape. Fitness First, Virgin Active and Anytime Fitness are expanding rapidly across the island and taking up space in malls. Mega-gym PURE Fitness just took 28,000 square feet of space at Ngee Ann City last year, and another 11,000 square feet for a yoga studio at Suntec City Mall….

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