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Smart cities are coming. And you can be sure that hackers won’t be very far behind.
We’ve already gotten a glimpse of that future, as cities across the globe start to use technology to connect their services and residents in ways that were science fiction just a few years ago. They are using sensors to collect data—about public utilities, traffic, garbage collecting, road conditions and m...
Colony Capital Inc. is making one of the most aggressive bets yet that technology is disrupting real estate: It is selling nearly all of its traditional holdings and channeling the money into property that focuses on the tech sector.
The Los Angeles-based real-estate firm is a global investor with $55 billion in ...
Cannabis-focused commercial real estate has spawned everything from cannabis coworking to cannabis pop-up retail to cannabis REITs.
Now, one entrepreneur has expansive plans to bolster the industry's national supply chain, with the goal of investing hundreds of millions of dollars in 30 cannabis contract manufacturing facilities over the next 10 years.
Automated check-out systems in supermarkets, where cashiers are replaced by barcode-readers and touchscreen interfaces for taking payments, have become a commonplace fixture in many parts of the world. But today, a startup that’s building what many believe will be the next generation of such systems — computer-vision-powered platforms that monitor what you take from t...
Real estate executives at the front of the industry’s push toward sustainability will gather in New York City in a few days for Climate Week – the annual event coinciding with the U.N. General Assembly when business and government leaders join together to tackle climate change.
One topic that’s sure to be eagerly discussed is green bonds, a niche area of financing that’s seen a surge ov...
Commercial Observer caught up with Ryan Simonetti, co-founder and CEO of Convene. We talked everything flex space, from IPOs to coffee offerings!
Dialogue state tracking, or estimating and keeping tabs on a person’s goals throughout a multiturn conversation, is one of the ways Alexa figures out what users want. By combining conversation history with the most recent command, Amazon’s intelligent assistant can better map slot names — the price of a hotel or its star rating, for example — to slot values, or entities mentioned in a dial...
Can buildings be more porous, more open to the vitality of the surrounding city? As with the creation of the great urban parks of the 19th century, designers today are rebalancing the relationship between architecture and nature, with the goal of increasing the quality of life, especially in urban settings.
WeWork’s parent is expected to postpone its initial public offering after investors questioned how much the company is worth and raised concerns about its corporate governance.
The shared-workspace company—which had planned to begin a roadshow to market the shares as early as Monday ahead of a trading debut next week—is likely to shelve the offering until at least next month, people famil...