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CRETech October 29, 2019
SoftBank Group Corp. earned only its second Hold rating on Friday after a Jefferies analyst downgraded the Japanese conglomerate for engineering WeWork’s $9.5 billion rescue package. Analysts covering SoftBank Group Corp. have been...
CRETech October 29, 2019
The NYU School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate is recognized globally as one of the world’s leading centers of real estate and urban research and industry engagement. In August, the institute also announced its plan to open the NYU Institute for Cities and Real Estate in Emerging Markets in Shanghai. The new academic institute will have a research focus on real estate in ...
CRETech October 29, 2019

Ben Horowitz,  the co-founder of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, has a new book coming out this coming Monday titled “What You Do Is ...

CRETech October 28, 2019
Flying robots that deliver packages to people’s doorsteps are no longer science fiction. Companies including Amazon.com Inc., AMZN...
CRETech October 28, 2019
Amazon is demonstrating how to create a smart home using Alexa-enabled gadgets in a London pop-up. The Westfield London activation, which runs until 2 November, features seven rooms. Guests can walk through the spaces and interact with technology from brand partners Drayton, Fitbit, Kutchenhaus, Mercedes-Benz, Omron, Osmo and Philips Hue. A Fitbit voice-activated art installation featu...
CRETech October 28, 2019

StepLadder, another London-based startup aiming to help so-called “generation rent” get onto the housing ladder, has raised £1.5 million in seed funding.

Backing the round is Spanish banking giant 
CRETech October 28, 2019
Google’s AI Platform, a cloud-hosted service facilitating machine learning and data science workflows, today gained a new feature in backend models that tap powerful Nvidia graphics chips. In related news, Google debuted a refreshed model training experience that all...
CRETech October 28, 2019
NEW YORK CITY – For Ten-X Commercial, a commercial real estate technology firm, the year 2020 is all about leveraging the data it’s collected for the past decade it has been in business, Maureen Waters, president of the firm, tells GlobeSt.com. “In 2020, for us, it is all about the data. Ten-X has data over ten years, and we want to take that data and think about how to connect it with h...
CRETech October 28, 2019
Landlords and builders aren’t the only stakeholders who’ll sooner or later have to reckon with an influx of new smart-building technology. Before too much longer, anyone who sets foot inside a commercial building won’t be able to avoid parlaying with some bleeps, bloops and bots. Panelists at Commercial Observer’s Building Tech Forum in Midtown on Wednesday pointed out that some hospita...
CRETech October 28, 2019
Investors and credit-rating firms are growing concerned about rising risks and weak controls at SoftBank Group Corp. 99...