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It’s been an eventful and in many ways difficult year for the senior housing industry — and it’s not over yet. But as calendars turn over to December, it’s time to take stock. With that in mind, we’ve compiled some of the most vivid and powerful quotes that appeared in Senior Housing News this year. These quotes — one from each of the last 11 months — convey some of the biggest tren...
Amazon’s re:Invent 2019 conference is nearly two weeks out, but try telling that to Amazon Web Services (AWS) — it’s unveiling new products left and right. Following on the heels of Alexa on AWS Core and new languages Amazon Translate and Transcribe, AWS today detailed features designed to make adding AI predictions to apps and services easier than before. Amazon says that machine learning ...
Intel Corp. is seeking buyers for its connected home division, a unit that makes chips used in home internet access gear, according to people familiar with the matter. The chipmaker has hired a financial adviser and is seeking to sell the unit that has annual sales of about
Amazon has named the finalists in its 2019 City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge. The sixth annual contest includes categories for constituent services, solving persistent problems, sustainability and equity, powered by AWS, dream big and public datasets. The competition received more than 100 nominee use cases around how AWS customers are using the cloud to innovate and improve quality of life f...
It looks like any of the dozens of
co-working spaces that have popped up around L.A. in recent years — a cluster of long tables with easy access to electrical outlets, a whiteboard next to a comfy couch, a fridge stocked with boxed water. But there's something that makes ParagonSpace a little different. When the Hollywood spot opens its doors to members Sept. 1, it will become the city's firs...
Sidewalk Labs and Plaza Ventures plan to launch a venture capital fund focused on smart-city technology, The Logic has learned. Expected to be between $20 million and $30 million, it would focus on high-risk investments in early-stage companies with the goal of establishing Toronto as a “global centre” for smart-city tech — but is contingent on Waterfront Toronto moving ahead with Sid...
Los Angeles has a reputation as a car-dependent city. But the city (and the surrounding county) also now has the country’s most ambitious plan for cutting emissions from transportation. In less than a decade, it wants the majority of new cars to be electric and all city buses to be electric—and it wants 20% of trips that currently happen in single-occupancy cars to shift to public tra...
When Bill Smith moved to San Francisco in 2016 to work on his grocery-delivery startup, the most annoying part was finding an apartment. Poring through rental listings in an unfamiliar city, calling the gas company, waiting for an internet connection -- the entrepreneur had little patience for any of it. So, after Smith sold his company, Shipt, to Target Inc. in 2017 for $550 million, he decided ...
Disruptors in real estate, particularly in the PropTech sector, are topics that Matt has tackled on several Leading Voices in Real Estate episodes, including with guests like Clara Brenner, the co-heads of Lyric, Jamie Hodari, and Chip Conley. He expands on this conversation with Brad Greiwe, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Fifth Wall, the largest venture capital fund focused on the global real...
CasaOne, the San Francisco-headquartered furniture rental company, announced it has completed a $16 million Series B round of financing. Accel led the investment round with participation from return investors JLL Spark, Freestyle Capital, NextWorld Capital, and Array Ventures. New investors include Quiet Capital, HNI and WeWork and a few prominent angel investors including Lydia Jett from Softbank...