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marianne3 December 23, 2020
Cantor Fitzgerald is raising $400M for another blank check company, this time looking at possibly acquiring a real estate brokerage. CF Acquisition Corp. IV, led by Cantor executives Howard Lutnick, Anshu Jain and Paul Pion, filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission Monday.
marianne3 December 23, 2020
LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday it has signed a partnership with Swedish door opening solutions firm Assa Abloy Entrance Systems to commercialize automatic sliding doors with transparent OLED displays. The product combines LG's 55-inch transparent organic light-emitting diode (OLED) signage and related software with the automated glass sliding doors of Assa Abloy, the South Korean tech firm sai...
marianne3 December 22, 2020
Nike is providing consumers who would prefer to stay home during the pandemic an accurate, virtual view of how items fit. The athletic footwear and apparel brand is leveraging the Omnivor Holograms for Retail solution as the platform for its new Nike Virtual View feature.
marianne3 December 22, 2020
In recent years, the tech industry has pledged billions of dollars to fund affordable housing developments in its back yard. These funds are championed by companies such as Google, Facebook, Salesforce and Microsoft as a way to remedy the housing crisis that is driven in part by these companies’ explosive growth and wealth creation.
marianne3 December 22, 2020
You couldn’t dream up a worse kind of crisis for co-living than the coronavirus pandemic. For a sector that sells itself on bringing people together, a virus that means we have to stay away from each other is a nightmare. Yet pushing against the fe...
marianne3 December 22, 2020
It’s no secret that the hospitality industry has been hit hard by Covid-19, which has forced many hotels to temporarily close and others to permanently shutter. But one type of hospitality property is faring better than others: extended stay hotels and residences.
marianne3 December 22, 2020
The 61st-floor terrace of the Chrysler Building, the Jazz Age wonder of the New York skyline, is studded with massive steel eagles. On a misty October night, Aby Rosen, the German-born investor who’s redeveloping the building, leans against a railing beside one of the birds. It’s beginning to drizzle, but Rosen, who has long white hair and alert blue eyes, is in an ebullient mood.
marianne3 December 21, 2020
Man GPM has agreed a £31m deal with modular housing company ilke Homes for a 14.6-acre site in Grantham that has detailed planning consent for 227 homes. The deal will see the delivery of an affordable and inclusive mixed tenure modular housing community on Dysart Road in Grantham.
marianne3 December 21, 2020
Using IoT sensors, video cameras and social media, smart cities could help to improve the lives of their citizens drastically in many ways.
marianne3 December 21, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated what we anticipated would be the future of work: the hybrid workplace. Employees who can work independently now expect the flexibility to work from anywhere even post-pandemic. In a recent JLL survey,