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CRETech August 22, 2019
Flexible-workspace provider Knotel became the latest start-up to reach unicorn status after it closed on a $400 million funding round, a week after rival WeWorkfiled for an initial public offering (IPO) with a pr...
CRETech August 22, 2019
Welcome to the desert of the real. Jean Baudrillard coined the term in 1981 to describe a world in which reality is a derivative of its representation — a world in which the map is all there is and the territory itself is disintegrating. Baudrillard was grappling with the nature of consciousness in the time of hyperreality, when it is no longer possible to distinguish between what isan...
CRETech August 22, 2019

WILMER, Tex. — At the public library in Wilmer, Tex., books were checked out not with the beeps of bar code readers but with the scratches of pen on notebook paper. Out on the street, police officers were literally writing tickets — by hand. When the entire computer network that keeps the small town’s bureaucracy afloat was recently hacked, Wilmer was thrown in...

CRETech August 21, 2019
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CRETech August 21, 2019
Download CREtech's 2019 Mid Year Report on the State of The Commercial Real Estate Sector today to learn about the record setting $14 billion VC investment into the commercial real estate tech sector in 2019 so far, what to expect in terms of VC investment for the remainder of 2019, the top 5 funding trends of 2019 and more. Plus, get access to our directory of the most innovative technology prov...
CRETech August 21, 2019
In a rare public appearance, attendees of #CREtechNYC2019 will hear from Related's Hudson Yards Chief Digital Officer, Scott Evans and Chief Technology Officer, Kenneth Finnegan, about how technology has shaped Hudson Yards into one of the most globally sophisticated and inn...
CRETech August 21, 2019

Opportunity zones were created to spur development in distressed neighborhoods, but developers in some areas are struggling to find tenants for their new properties. Their savior may be another rising trend in commercial real estate: co-working.

Lured by the lower cost of shared office space, start-ups also gain access to a network...

CRETech August 21, 2019
Investors and analysts are looking at the rocky experience of a WeWork rival that went public nearly 20 years ago for insight into what could lie ahead for the New York-based co-working company. WeWork’s parent, We Co., last week released papers for its in...
CRETech August 21, 2019
The business model of Utah startup Neighbor is easy to understand: be the Airbnb of the self-storage industry by matching people with extra space to other people with goods to store. Also, undercut conventional self-storage competitors on price, and take a piece of the $38B self-storage industry.
CRETech August 21, 2019
Flexible workspace company Breather has added another executive to its growing C-suite, with Phillippe Bouffaut coming on as chief technology officer. Most recently vice president of products and engineering at media intelligence company Cision, Bouffaut will focus on further improving Breather's digital booking system and office management capabilities. That will include implementing an app...