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  • Tech To Consider For Your Office Space Retrofit

    CRETech

    What tech upgrades can add the “wow” factor to your office space? The rate of innovation makes choosing the most desirable features is challenging, and a tight budget complicates decision-making. The following retrofits marry modern conveniences with cost savings. #1- Destination dispatch-equipped elevators Does your building run more than one elevator? Rather than stopping at every floor, destination dispatch groups passengers by their destination. People arrive at their floor quicker and it…

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  • WeWork Is Launching a Venture Fund for the ‘Future of Work’

    WSJ

    WeWork Cos. is launching a venture fund to invest in “the future of work” and other startups, according to people familiar with the plans. Emily Keeton, who joined WeWork last year as global head of mergers and acquisitions, is now managing director at WeWork Creator Fund. Ms. Keeton is planning to assemble a team of about five people behind the effort, according to a person familiar with the situation.

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  • PropTech Startup Jones Raises $2.8M Seed Round

    JONES

    We are happy to announce a $2.8 million seed round led by Hetz Ventures alongside JLL Spark, MetaProp Ventures, GroundUp Ventures and 500 Startups.

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  • Facial Recognition Software: The Future Is Here

    FORBES

    A year ago, when Apple rolled out the iPhone X, one of their most touted features was facial ID. You no longer needed to press a home button or use a passcode. You could unlock your phone with your face. It was the first time I’d really seen facial recognition software being practically used. You probably use something every day with facial recognition software even if you don’t realize it—I’m looking at you Snapchat and Instagram face filters.

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  • In London, Electric Trucks Are Helping UPS Make ‘Eco-Friendly’ Deliveries

    NY TIMES

    There is something new in Kentish Town, an up-and-coming north London neighborhood. Many of the distinctive, brown delivery vans coming out of a UPS depot in the area are silent except for a humming sound as they roll down the high street past the craft shop London Bead Company and the Middle Eastern food emporium Phoenicia.

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  • Several NYC resi brokerages collaborating on new data platform

    THE REAL DEAL

    Some of the city’s most prominent brokerages are teaming up to use a new data platform. The group is leading the launch of NYC Buyer Graph, a tool that gives buyers, sellers and agents exclusive data to collaborate on deals, Inman reported. The platform was started by real estate technology company RealScout.

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  • KiwiTech Announces Strategic Partnership with Off-campus Housing Platform PadLink

    PRWEB

    KiwiTech, LLC, a startup accelerator and technology services company, today announced a strategic partnership agreement with PadLink, an online platform that aims to make it more seamless to manage the entire off-campus housing process.

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  • This 3D zoning software may change how city developers plan projects

    THE REAL DEAL

    New York’s Department of City Planning is partnering with Florida-based Gridics to test the company’s 3D zoning and planning software. The program allows users to click on any lot within a 3D rendering of a city, and instantly create hypothetical buildings within the parameters of what local zoning allows. By visualizing the zoning code, Gridics hopes to make it more understandable.

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  • WeWork is taking a majority of this Chelsea office property

    THE REAL DEAL

    Just days after announcing its status as Manhattan’s largest office tenant, WeWork notched another new lease, signing on for 60,000 square feet at 511 West 25th Street in Chelsea….

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  • Exclusive Feature With Buildout, the Leading End-to-end Solution for Marketing Commercial Real Estate Listings

    CRETech

    Buildout is the nation’s leading commercial real estate marketing software. Since launching in 2010, Buildout has revolutionized the entire listing process for brokerages around the country. Buildout’s marketing tool allows brokerages to produce beautiful, brand-consistent marketing instantly, save time by eliminating tedious tasks and focus on what’s most important: closing more deals and growing their business. Our team at CREtech recently caught up with the team at Buildout to learn more …

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