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CRETech September 27, 2019
Following The We Company’s abortive attempt at an IPO, the parent company of the popular WeWork coworking brand is looking towards its old friends for the cash it ne...
CRETech September 27, 2019

Anyone who has taken an Uber, sent a Slack message or enjoyed a free beer at a WeWork owes a little something to Masayoshi Son.

Through his Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and a $100 billion investment fund, Mr. Son plowed huge sums into these and other companies that aim to change how people work, travel and live. His investments e...

CRETech September 27, 2019

This was supposed to be the year when America’s biggest start-ups would finally make their triumphant debut on the stock market.

Billionaire Silicon Valley investors, sneaker-clad founders and button-down bankers...

CRETech September 27, 2019
The post- Adam Neumann era at WeWork has begun. In the days since Mr. Neumann stepped down as chief executive, the company’s new leaders have moved to pare its headcount and assets, including advancing plans Thursday to purge nearly 20 friends and family members...
CRETech September 27, 2019
Companies looking for their next leader might want to consider a once overshadowed but no longer hidden member of the C-suite: the chief information officer. Traditionally, the IT department has been largely viewed as a sector tasked with helping to fix tech issues around the office. But a 
CRETech September 26, 2019
Amazon is rolling out a new line of wearables that work with Alexa today including the Echo Frames eyeglasses and the Echo Loop smart ring. Echo Frames come with no display or camera like you may expect from a pair of glasses meant to augment human activity, but includes directional microphones to talk to you, deliver notifications, and carry out actions like create a reminder, play music, or cont...
CRETech September 26, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO—Not all logistics real estate is created equal. Thus begins a white paper by Prologis on the need to redefine logistics real estate. “With a range of features and locations,” it writes, “properties can have widely different purposes, yet current industry definitions seldom go farther than ‘warehouse/distribution’ and ‘flex’.” The report defines five property type...
CRETech September 26, 2019
Some of WeWork’s fast-growing competitors have been raising money and expanding in big cities by persuading investors and clients how different they are from WeWork. Deals cut by a number of smaller office-services startups have come as parent We Co. last week 
CRETech September 26, 2019

People might avoid eating at a restaurant with a “C” grade, but will they avoid living in a building with the same score? That’s the question building owners have to start asking themselves when a new law takes effect next year that will give properties a letter grade based on their energy consumption for the year.

CRETech September 26, 2019
Amazon today shared plans to roll out Doorbell Concierge, a way for AI assistant Alexa to answer your front door and speak with visitors through Ring video doorbells. Concierge will begin to roll out for Ring Video Doorbell Elite users starting next year, Amazon VP David Limp said onstage in a presentation at company headquarters in Seattle.