If a thousand companies make their own smart light bulb, do a thousand companies also have to design a light switch app to control them? Kraftful, a company out of Y Combinator’s Summer 2019 class, doesn’t think so. Kraftful builds the myriad components that an IoT/smart home company might need, puzzle piecing them together into apps for each company without requirin...
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GM’s Cruise is launching the Origin electric autonomous vehicle and sliding doors today, the product of 3 years of work between General Motors, Cruise, and Honda. The Cruise Origin is designed without a combustible engine or a driver, decisions which Cruise CEO Dan Ammann says give people more space. The Origin can seat up to 6 people, with 3 passengers on each side looking toward each other in ...
Modular construction — a type of pre-fabricated building that happens mainly off-site and is then pieced together — is still considered a new and risky concept. But in an environment of sky-high building costs and a widening affordability gap in New York City, some builders believe the potential gains are worth the leap of faith.
Michael McNamara knew Target Corp. had challenges when he was hired as chief information officer in 2015. The retailer, knocked around by public failures including a December 2013 data breach, was “lacking confidence” and “down on its heels,” he recalled. While rival Amazon.com Inc. was amassing e-commerce marke...
CREtech (cretech.com), the leading global conference and research company devoted to innovation in the Built World, will be showcasing the leading-edge commercial estate development companies at its first event in 2020. CREtech has announced that Dean Hopkins, COO of Oxford Properties Group, will take the stage in Austin, Texas on April 22nd and 23rd. In a session titled “The Need for Standardiz...
A developer is proposing a housing project to the city of San Francisco that's a bit outside of the box. The Kansas-based developer Chris Elsey of Elsey Partners, who runs the company with his twin brother, has plans to build two apartment buildings in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood, which will include 88 50-square-foot underground "sleeping pods" that are essentially bunk beds. The plans n...
Real-estate startups are retreating from a growth-at-all-costs model, casting aside an approach that has worked for many internet companies but has sputtered in the concrete world of office buildings and lodging properties. Startup companies often prioritize growth to establish dominance in an industry before competitors can get a foothold. But in industries like co-working and hospitality, the co...
In July of last year, Procore, a construction technology software company, acquired Honest Buildings, a project management software start-up. Now, the two companies are fully integrated and are poised for growth in 2020.
Careers in federal government are known for job security and generous pensions, but also for layers of bureaucracy and cold, gray, impersonal buildings. The bureaucracy is unlikely to change, but soon, government workers around the country could be organizing hurricane relief, investigating regulatory infractions or rubber-stamping Social Security payments while natural light flows around them an...
WeWork’s valuation has collapsed, and now the company is selling off acquisitions. Knotel is grappling with nearly 1 million square feet of vacancies. WeWork and other co-working companies are slashing their workforces. With headlines like that, you might think the whole sector is in trouble. But flexible office space isn’t going anywhere — and will lik...