Ushering in new era of smart buildings and healthcare for Singapore

Return-to-Office Plans Are Set in Motion, but Virus Uncertainty Remains

A year and a pandemic ago, over 100,000 people filled the central business district in Charlotte, N.C., pouring out of offices, including several recently built skyscrapers, and into restaurants, bars and sports venues. Then as the coronavirus sent employees to their homes, much of the city center quickly went quiet and dark.

Why We Invested in Retail Zipline

Zipline helps retailers improve workforce management and communications between corporate decision makers and store employees. As a result, retailers boost accountability, transparency, and employee engagement across distributed teams.

Compass lost $270M in 2020, revenue up 56% : IPO filing

The IPO filing, known as a form S-1, provides the clearest look into the financials of the company, which is likely the fastest-growing U.S. residential brokerage in a generation. Compass’ revenue grew 56 percent in 2020 from $2.4 billion in 2019. It cut its losses from $388 million in 2019, and has lost a total of $1.1 billion as of Dec. 31, 2020.

Landlords Chasing Filtration, Certification In Push To Welcome Workers Back

As the vaccine brings workforces closer to a return to the office, developers and property managers are moving forward with a game plan centered around a healthier workplace. Landlords are eying advanced air filtration systems and seeking certification from new performance-based building standards to quell concerns at workplaces forever changed, experts said on Bisnow’s Boston’s Path to Healthy Buildings event….

WATCH NOW! Harnessing Tech for Affordable and Equitable Housing, Part 1

Carol Galante, Faculty Director at the Terner Center at UC Berkeley, discusses the purpose, drive, and technology strategy of the Terner Center, and what kinds of technology solutions that are most important right now.

CoStar ups its bid to acquire CoreLogic

The latest offer is also $17 per share higher than the recent agreement CoreLogic made with Stone Point Capital and Insight Partners, who agreed to buy the company for approximately $6 billion.

National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence issues report on how to maintain U.S. dominance

The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence today released its report today with dozens of recommendations for President Joe Biden, Congress, and business and government leaders. China, the group said, represents the first challenge to U.S. technological dominance that threatens economic and military power for the first time since the end of World War II.

Flink, the Berlin-based grocery delivery startup that operates its own ‘dark stores’, raises $52M

The on-demand grocery delivery industry in Europe (and beyond) continues to heat up amidst the pandemic, including a plethora of startups taking a vertical approach by operating their own delivery only — or “dark” — stores. The latest to show its hand is Berlin-based Flink, which today is announcing that it has raised a hefty $52 million in seed financing.

Real estate brokerage Compass files for IPO amid pandemic boom in housing prices

Compass, a real estate brokerage firm with more than 19,000 agents across the country, filed to go public on Monday, and told prospective investors that revenue jumped 56% last year as housing prices soared. Founded in 2012, the New York-based company has sought to bring advanced technology to real estate agents, giving them better data, marketing tools and customer relationship software than they can get from a typical brick-and-mortar brokerage….