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WeWork has named Kimberly Ross its new chief financial officer, the company announced on Monday. Ross, most recently vice president and CFO at Baker Hughes, will start at WeWork on March 16. She previously held the same role at Avon Products and Ahold Delhaize, a retail company based in the Netherlands. She sits on the Board of Directors at Chubb Insurance Group, Nestle and PQ Corporation.
DALLAS—Boston-based HqO has expanded its national footprint with the opening of an office in Dallas. The office will be led by industry veteran Clay Curlee who has been hired to grow the company’s presence across Texas and throughout the Southwest, GlobeSt.com learns in this exclusive.
Construction is among the least digitized industries in the U.S., owing to the labor-intensive and localized nature of the work. This is starting to change as new AI-focused technology enters the market and as the construction labor shortage pushes contractors for new solutions. San Francisco-based Built Robotics has developed an AI guidance system that can be retrofitted to existing constructi...
With the Australia fires, the threat of World War III, and now the global coronavirus outbreak, it’s been a rough start to 2020. Amidst the doom and gloom, there is occasional respite with good news in proptech as the sector, and its players, continue to go from strength to strength. One such story is that of Openpath, a trailblazing Silicon Beach access control startup. This time last year, we...
Walmart Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc.are in discussions to outfit the retailer’s stores with antennas and other equipment to create 5G wireless service, a high-profile test of the next-generation networks.
The plan would initially bring 5G service to a pair of locations this year to power new Walmart digital...
Paying close attention to your HVAC system can have a big payoff. Commercial real estate owners tracking HVAC consumption can better plan capital expenditures and maintenance budgets. Motili recently launched a carbon calculator that allows owners to look at their HVAC data at a glance, and the benefits of this data are significant.
ATYPICAL, leader in commercial real estate marketing services and Waze, an app that helps riders and drivers get where they’re going—faster, smoother, safer, and happier, today has announced they are working together to bridge the gap in helping to drive traffic to retail brick-and-mortar locations worldwide. Waze, purchased by Google in 2013, amplified its community-sourced navigation capabil...
Thirty-six million jobs, or 25% of all jobs in the U.S., are under heavy threat of being replaced by artificial intelligence, according to a 2019 report from the Brookings Institute. Another 52 million, more than a third of all U.S. employment, are considered at medium risk of being taken over by AI.
With 70% market share in smart speakers and over 100,000 Alexa Skills powering everything from toasters to transportation, Amazon is a clear leader in smart home technology. Maybe even the leader, depending on how you look at it. It all stems back to Amazon’s failure to crack the smartphone market, and its genius jiu-jitsu move to own voice and the home.