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CRETech August 05, 2019
In 2017, shortly after becoming a venture capitalist, Jess Lee attended a startup conference in Los Angeles. Her badge identified her employer as Sequoia Capital, an Apple Inc. and Google backer that was gearing up to raise more than $12 billion in several new funds. Under most circumstances, that’d be enough to get a VC mobbed, but the crowd largely ignored Lee, the first female investing partn...
CRETech August 05, 2019
Altus Group Limited (“Altus Group”) (TSX: AIF), a leading provider of software, data solutions and independent advisory services to the global commercial real estate (“CRE”) industry, announces the launch of cloud-enabled version 12 of ARGUS Enterprise (“AE”). AE 12 is the latest version of the industry leading global asset and portfolio management platform used by thousands of custome...
CRETech August 05, 2019
It’s a miracle most enterprises manage to find anything in their labyrinthine storage setups. Companies increasingly tap a mix of public and private clouds that don’t always play nicely together, and the jargony nature of their employees’ search queries make them tougher to parse than, say, web searches. Fortunately, IBM’s recent work in natural language processing promises to ...
CRETech August 02, 2019
Coworking giant WeWork is planning to acquire SpaceIQ, a company focused on analytics software that makes more efficient use of office space. The deal is The We Company's latest move into PropTech as it prepares for its initial public offering as soon as September. The acquisition is characteristic of WeWork, which has bought nine other companies since the first quarter of 2018, most of them ...
CRETech August 02, 2019
Vacasa, the vacation rental management service, will buy Wyndham Vacation Rentalsfrom Wyndham Destinations, the companies said Tuesday. Vacasa will pay $45 million in cash at closing and will give Wyndham Destinations up...
CRETech August 02, 2019
“What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” goes the unofficial slogan of this gaming hub in the desert. To which the team behind Bleutech Park Properties might reply, “Not if we can help it.” The $7.5-billion Bleutech Park Las Vegas is slated to break ground in the Las Vegas Valley in December of this year, creating a mini-city that the project’s backers promise will “bring life to new...
CRETech August 02, 2019
Just a few days after abruptly closing its doors, co-living start-up Bedly has inked an agreement for another company to take over some of its sublease agreements. Brooklyn-based Outpost Club will take over some of Bedly’s lease agreements at its Manhattan and New Jersey properties, the companies announced on Thursday. Bedly founder Martin Greenberg indicated that similar second deal at its o...
CRETech August 02, 2019
Jon McNeill, who was hired last year to run Lyft Inc.’s operations, is leaving the company. The founders, who have struggled to retain an operating chief, said they won’t hire a replacement. Before joining Lyft, McNeill was a deputy to Elon Musk at 
CRETech August 02, 2019
One needn’t be an oracle to forecast Airbnb listings prices — AI models fed customer reviews and rental features will do the trick. That’s the conclusion drawn by a team of graduate students at Stanford, who investigate in a paper on Arxiv.org (“Airbnb Price Prediction Using Machine Learning...
CRETech August 02, 2019
Finding the right hotel has never been easier with Booking.com, and no one even remembers how we sent files before WeTransfer. What these two have in common is that they share Amsterdam as their headquarters. And for good reason – this bike-friendly city has also been friendly to the startup community, with a progressive environment, diverse workforce, innovative spirit, top-notch universities a...