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At first sight, the Real Estate Board of New York’s upcoming Hackathon looked like a great deal. Participants could spend three days mingling with other coders, build real estate tech software together and “compete for a total of $75,000 in cash and prizes.” But buried in the event’s terms and conditions was a big catch: any software created during the event would belong to REBNY, without ...
As Walmart continues to build out its e-commerce business to rival Amazon’s, its latest development will build on some of the retail giant’s most established operations: Walmart is launching a new in-store returns service called Mobile Express Returns. People who purchase items online and then need to return them can do so by logging them on the Walmart app, generating a QR code for the transa...
By Lisa Stanley From the October 2017 Issue The impact that emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and others, will have on the real estate industry is just starting to be realized. Other industries, including financial services and insurance, are much further ahead than real estate and have made some significant advances in exploring how these technologies can ...
Author By Dan O'Shea • Published Oct. 6, 2017 Share it post share tweet Dive Brief: E-commerce wholesaler Boxed has developed an autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) that can pick up and transport orders through the company's fulfillment centers, enabling 80% more picks per hour than might be done by human pickers traveling on foot, Boxed told Retail Dive via e-mail. Boxed plans to use as m...
Customers with questions about their online orders this holiday shopping season may think they’re asking a seasonal worker for help, but artificial intelligence (AI) is likely giving them the information they need. Technology of all kinds is being used on the back end of retail, to organize inventory and manage other operational functions. Whether it’s chatting with a bot or with Alexa, AI is ...
Most real estate agents are commission-based and incentivized to focus on the big sales. That results in inefficiencies for lower class home buyers, who may have to wait longer to view properties and receive less guidance on paperwork. A Miami-based startup called Home61 has been working on a solution for this category of buyers and renters, which it refers to as the “other 80%.” Home 61 is bu...
New York has 13 days to finish crafting the perfect plan to land Amazon’s second headquarters—and beat out more than 100 other cities that have indicated interest. Across the five boroughs developers and civic leaders worked frantically in late September to turn in over two dozen site proposals in 23 neighborhoods for consideration. Now, a coalition of city and state agencies are working behin...
Newark Venture Partners, a $50 million venture capital fund, works out of a 25,000-square-foot co-working space in One Washington Park in Newark. The fund launched in 2015 with the backing of Audible, Prudential Financial and other corporate anchors in Newark, seeking to promote the growth of startups while helping to build a larger tech community in the city. — Courtesy: Newark Venture Partners...
The Future of Work | Digital Drive October 5, 20170 CommentsBy JLL New York As we continue exploring how commercial real estate is transforming business through our Future of Work model, we find digitization and technology to be a powerful force behind improving work space performance and enabling employees to focus on more strategic and creative ambitions. So it’s no surprise that the second di...
New York’s Leading Commercial Real Estate Landlords to speak at CRE // Tech New York on December 7 Largest event ever in CRE tech industry to feature panel of executives from Hines, Paramount Group Inc., Rudin Management Company and SL Green Realty Corp. New York, NY (October 5, 2017)-- CRE // Tech (cretech.com) announced that the 2017 CRE // Tech- New York Event will feature a panel of New York...