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The municipal mega-beauty-pageant over which city Amazon selects for its second headquarters this year is heating up. According to insiders, Atlanta, ranked among the top three contenders, brings even more to the competition than most realize. The discussion is moving beyond Atlanta's unstoppable talent and untamable traffic into dimensions that make Atlanta not just another good location,...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is picking up steam in warehouse aisles and factory floors around the world. As advancing technology brings the manufacturing industry closer to the vision of a ‘smart factory,’ the future of U.S. manufacturing depends on how well industry leaders play the new cards in the deck: robotics, data, automation and 3D printing—without overlooking the value of human...
Tom Goodwin Contributor Tom Goodwin is EVP, head of innovation at Zenith Media. More posts by this contributor: In the new age of ubiquitous connectivity the message is the medium 5G promises to transform the world again The world’s largest taxi firm, Uber, is buying cars. The world’s most popular media company, Facebook, now commissions content. The world’s most valuable retailer is now A...
Fifth Wall Ventures led a $4.25 million seed funding round for Enertiv, a property tech company that creates hardware and software to track the performance and energy usage of building systems, Commercial Observer has learned. Rudin Ventures, the Rudin family’s investing arm, also joined the funding round as well as New York Angels, Cerium Technology and MetaProp NYC. Enertiv, a seven-year-old c...
While rent-to-own is not a new concept in the housing market, a new real estate company is set to launch that aims to rebrand renting to own into a buyer-friendly proposition. Divvy Homes, which soft-launched two months ago, claims that its program offers consumers the flexibility of renting with the financial benefits of homeownership. In the not-to-distant past, other rent-to-own operators were ...
Katerra’s goal is to help build construction projects faster and at lower costs by controlling all aspects of the process from design through construction. (Bloomberg)—SoftBank Group Corp. led an $865 million investment in Katerra Inc., a little-known construction-technology startup seeking to shake up the building industry. Katerra’s valuation is now more than $3 billion, said Michael Marks...
By Turner Levison Posted January 24, 2018 In Uncategorized Seven Advantages of Cloud-Computing and Real Estate2018-01-242018-01-16https://commissiontrac.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ctlh.pngCommissionTrachttps://commissiontrac.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ct-blog-template-9-1.png200px200px 0 Behind all industry disruption there lies an unseen power. Think of the steam engine and the Ind...
NEW YORK — Nine startups stood on stage at Inman Connect New York's Tech Connect on Tuesday to introduce themselves — and what they have to offer — to an audience of potential clients. “These niches almost shouldn't be called niches because they're larger than almost any other industry out there,” moderator and Roofstock CEO Gary Beasley said about this year's group. ...
For many professionals, the lines between our work and non-work lives are growing increasingly blurry. And many even tend to like it that way. With the advent of smartphones and wireless internet, most knowledge workers no longer need to be at work to get work done. According to Gallup, 43% of workers spend at least some of their time working remote, up from 39% in 2012. As a result, the role of t...
Today’s commercial real estate landlords and brokers are faced with an opportunity unlike anything that has come before – rapid innovation that will fundamentally change the way our industry operates. This explosion in CRE Tech has already been embraced by many early adopters who have started to incorporate the various technology solutions available into their daily operations. Excitingly thes...