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  • Latch Announces Expansion into Commercial Office Space with Launch of LatchOS for Offices

    Latch

    In addition to bringing its full-building operating system to commercial offices for the first time, Latch also launches Latch Visitor Express, set to streamline visitor access with pilots at the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center and Brookfield Place May 24, 2021 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Latch, Inc. today announced the expansion of its full-building enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, LatchOS, into commercial offices, bringing Latch’s …

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  • This $68 billion Australian city wants to become the next Silicon Valley

    CNBC

    Travel up the sunny shores of Australia’s Gold Coast, 25 kilometers outside of Brisbane, and you’ll find Greater Springfield, a city that’s different by design. You may never have heard of it. Unsurprising; the city is not yet 30 years old. But that isn’t holding it back. In a few years, it could be the next Silicon Valley, says developer Springfield City Group (SCG).

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  • What cities will be most affected by climate change?

    Mic

    At this point, pretty much everyone is aware of climate change and the fact that, well, it sucks. The reality is that climate change is already changing your life — and your location plays a huge role in what its continued impact will be. It’s hard to decisively say which cities are at the most risk due to climate change because there are so many factors at play: It’s not only about warming temperatures, but also about rising sea levels, increased risks for crop hazards, natural disasters, and m…

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  • For Startup Leaders, SPACs Have Lost Their Allure

    Wall Street Journal

    Skeptical CEOs say they are turning down offers from special-purpose acquisition companies, deleting their solicitous emails and tapping the brakes on merger deals amid nosediving shares and disappointed investors.

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  • Buildings IOT Raises $10 Million to Help Make Buildings Smarter, Healthier, and Cost Efficient

    PR Newswire

    CONCORD, Calif., May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — As retail and office buildings focus on optimizing equipment performance and providing healthy indoor environments, Buildings IOT announced that the company secured a $10 million growth investment with Keyframe Capital. As a provider of software, services, and solutions for every aspect of building systems management, Buildings IOT streamlines building data and makes it easier and more cost effective for owners and operators to maintain assets th…

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  • Google office of post-pandemic future has privacy robots, meeting tents and your very own balloon wall

    Chicago Tribune

    In 2003, five years after its founding, the company moved into a sprawling campus called the Googleplex. The airy, open offices and whimsical common spaces set a standard for what an innovative workplace was supposed to look like. Over the years, the amenities piled up. The food was free, and so were buses to and from work: Getting to the office, and staying there all day, was easy. …

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  • Kleiner spots Spot Meetings $5M to modernize walk-and-talks for the Zoom generation

    TechCrunch

    Trees, those deciduous entities you can occasionally see outdoors when not locked down or strapped down at a desktop ruminating on a video call, have long been the inspiration for fresh new ideas. Stories abound of how founders built companies while walking the foothills in Silicon Valley or around parks in San Francisco, and yet, we’ve managed over the past year to take movement mostly out of our remote work lives.

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  • Digital Twin: The Age of Aquarius in Construction and Real Estate

    EY

    In line with the fourth industrial revolution, investing in technological automation has evolved from speculative to mission critical. The digital twin is at the forefront of this movement. First movers in healthcare, energy and transportation are driving inception and creating awareness. From a global market size of $3.1B in 2020, the digital twin is projected to reach $48.2B by 2026.1

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  • Here’s Why We Are Going BACK to In-Person Events

    Michael Beckerman

    Wow, what a year!  First of all, thanks to my friend Marc for capturing my emotions from this past year and a half so brilliantly! He created the first image when I reached out to all of you about the cancellation of our 2020 live events, but now WE BACK! And I couldn’t be more excited, but if you really want to talk about it, the beard ain’t goin anywhere 🙂 Let’s talk about this past year for a minute. While I have seen and experienced every type of imaginable business crisis and threat t…

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  • Workrise, once known as RigUp, raises $300M at a $2.9B valuation

    TechCrunch

    Workrise, which has built a workforce management platform for the skilled trades, announced today that it has raised $300 million in a Series E round led by U.K.-based Baillie Gifford that values the company at $2.9 billion.

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