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American Express Expands Partnership with Nova Credit to Help Extend Credit to More Newcomers to the U.S.

Nova Credit
12/8/2021

American Express announced today, in partnership with Nova Credit, that it has expanded credit access to people from Brazil, Dominican Republic, Kenya and Nigeria who have moved to the United States. The growth of this first-of-its-kind digital capability enables newcomers from nine countries to use their international credit history to quickly and easily apply for personal American Express® Cards and begin building U.S. credit history, if approved….

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JLL turns hunt for industrial space into digital experience

Placetech
12/8/2021

The real estate giant has created a tool to streamline industrial and logistics searches with a raft of datasets, analytics and virtual tours.

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Why we Invested in Oda Studio

Navitas Capital
12/8/2021

The problem of ugly real estate photos If you’ve ever tried to find an apartment rental online, you’re probably well aware that the real estate industry is a laggard when it comes to digital marketing. Low resolution, poorly lit photos of messy interiors taken at odd angles abound, often forcing prospective tenants to stretch their imaginations to visualize what it would be like to live there. More savvy landlords or realtors invest in professional photography and staging, but these services ca…

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WATCH: SmartRent’s Lucas Haldeman on multifamily’s tech era

The Real Deal
12/7/2021

The residential real estate sector is becoming more institutionalized, with greater consolidation of ownership among the largest players as Wall Street spurs a number of novel business models such as iBuying. But institutionalization and wider adoption of technology go hand-in-hand, according to Lucas Haldeman.

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View Acquires RXR Realty’s WorxWell in Major Proptech Deal: Exclusive

Commercial Observer
12/7/2021

Continuing the trend of real estate digitizing data for owners and occupiers, smart buildings proptech firm View has acquired RXR Realty’s WorxWell, the companies announced Tuesday.

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Decarbonizing real estate: What’s here — and what’s hype

The Real Deal
12/7/2021

In real estate, green isn’t the new black — not yet. But if the capital markets continue demanding greater sustainability and increasing the pressure on portfolios with high carbon emissions, it may soon be impossible for owners to stay in the black if they don’t go green.

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Better.com CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call, accuses them of ‘stealing’

New York Post
12/7/2021

The boss of online mortgage lender Better.com laid off some 900 employees on a Zoom call — then slammed the ex-workers for allegedly “stealing from our customers” by not being productive.

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AWS introduces IoT TwinMaker, a new service to easily create digital twins

TechCrunch
12/7/2021

At AWS’s re:Invent conference this morning, the company announced AWS IoT TwinMaker, a new service that makes it easy to create and use digital twins of real-world systems. For context, digital twins are virtual representations of things like buildings, factories, production lines and equipment that are regularly updated with real-world data to mimic the behavior of the systems they represent….

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Suffolk Technologies Boost Program “Demo Day” Provides Forum for Contech Startups to Showcase Cutting Edge Solutions

Businesswire
12/7/2021

Suffolk Technologies, Suffolk’s venture capital and technology investment arm, hosted its 2^nd annual Demo Day, concluding its six-week Boost program that supports tech startups focused on addressing industry challenges, expanding networks and raising funding

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Flexible Workspaces of the Future Trailer

CREtech
12/7/2021

Mark Furness and James Shannon of essensys, and Annie Rinker of Hines, discuss how the need for flex workspace is greater now than ever before. Although it’s widely accepted that the workplace is changing, the complexities that come with a flex work environment require unique solutions and technologies. Start your free 30-day trial to get full access videos like this.

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