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Oh, the pitches that come along with the pitches. They are many and to be honest, lately, some of them are so very good. A few that have caught my attention and the few that have stood out are the ones that are facing the consumer. And when I say facing the consumer I mean directly facing them. Where do these companies live? They live where the rest of the entire world lives. On that screen. that ...

The hangar at Hercules Campus West, known as the Spruce Goose hangar (Credit: David Alf, Wikimedia Commons) Google will move into the repurposed “Spruce Goose” aircraft hanger in Playa Vista in the fall, more than a year and a half after signing a lease for the cavernous, 319,000-square-foot building. The hangar is owned by Japanese conglomerate ASO Group, which is building out a three-story o...

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...

Amazon seems to agree that Atlanta has it going on. And although the city is too busy to hate, it may soon draw envy--and lots of it. Atlanta has the best odds of being selected to host Amazon's second headquarters, according to new research published this week. The demographic data firm Sperling's BestPlaces based its predictions on factors including cost of living, access to transport...

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...

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...

The Peachtree Street location near Arts Center revamped a dated office building Coworking brand WeWork has launched their latest Atlanta offering on Peachtree Street in Midtown, just south of 17th Street, and Georgia’s gubner showed up to mark the occasion. The three-story shared space occupies a formerly blah midcentury office building that was long overdue for a makeover. The building was tota...

SmartHR, a startup helping Japanese employers run HR and staffing smarter — because that’s of course its name — has raised a JPY 1.5 billion ($13.3 million) Series B round led by 500 Startups Japan. The startup is perhaps comparable to the likes of Zenefits and Gusto in the U.S. — it aims to drag Japanese HR departments into today’s digital era. “In Japan few companies think about doin...