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CRETech May 10, 2018
Uber is planning on adding to its ride-sharing service by pioneering air travel-for-hire, and one architecture and design firm has an idea to make it scalable. At the Uber Elevate summit in Dallas Wednesday, local firm Corgan unveiled designs for a modular platform for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOLs, which Uber plans to use for its UberAIR arm.
CRETech May 10, 2018
Venture funding is flowing through New York's tech startups. In the first quarter of the year, VC-backed companies in the metro area took in $2.6 billion in investments, according to the MoneyTree deal-tracking tool from PwC and CB Insights. The city's total represented a 61% increase from the first quarter of 2017 and was just a shade below the record-high $2.7 billion raised in Q1 2016.
CRETech May 09, 2018
Convene, a rapidly-growing workplace hospitality platform, announced the acquisition of Beco, a mobile workplace analytics platform. Effective May 1st, 2018, Beco became a portfolio company under Convene’s expanding technology-enabled business. Beco’s CEO Tom Zampini will become the Chief Product Officer of Convene, working closely with Convene’s Chief Information Officer Jim Scho...
CRETech May 09, 2018
Google  will soon launch a new version of Google Maps that will give you more personalized recommendations than before. Google has long worked to make Maps seem more personalized, but since Maps ...
CRETech May 09, 2018
Covered in a mural and located across from a cemetery, a block-long single story warehouse in Pico-Union could easily go overlooked. But this West Washington Boulevard industrial site is ground zero for a nascent real estate venture that repurposes distressed assets, giving them new life in the new economy.
CRETech May 09, 2018
Say goodbye to your bank teller and  your insurance sales agent. Dozens of financial services jobs like these are starting to be replaced by technology.  Over the next 15 years, AI will take even more of these types of jobs, according to research firm Autonomous’s new report.
CRETech May 09, 2018
IF YOU TRUST the folks with their eyes tilted upward and their hands waving in the air, flying taxis could be a traffic panacea, leveraging the third dimension to make room for everyone. Uber is among...
CRETech May 09, 2018
Knotel has landed another new lease in New York City, grabbing 23,000 square feet of space in Savanna’s Chelsea building at 
CRETech May 09, 2018
With billions to burn and ambition to spare, Amazon is remaking retail in its image. The Seattle-based behemoth also seems keen to reinvent large parts of construction and development, as detailed by Construction News.
CRETech May 08, 2018
In another move to diversify its offerings to provide clients with a breadth of services to cover their real estate needs, JLL has launched a new workplace planning tool called JLL InSite.