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The “Big Short” investor that bet against subprime has a new target: Zillow

CRETech July 25, 2019
In “The Big Short” – the 2015 film about the financial crisis – actor Steve Carell plays a character based on noted short seller Steve Eisman, who made hundreds of millions of dollars betting against collateralized debt obligations laden with subprime residential mortgages.
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Proptech exec Ari Teman arrested on bank fraud charges

CRETech July 24, 2019
Proptech entrepreneur Ari Teman is facing Federal bank fraud charges after he was arrested earlier this month for allegedly cashing hundreds of thousands of dollars of counterfeit checks from companies that had worked with his virtual doorman business. Teman – creator of the
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WeWork accelerates IPO plans, plots September listing

CRETech July 24, 2019

WeWork chief executive officer Adam Neumann is already rich, but soon all o...

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Fetch Robotics raises $46 million to expand warehouse automation internationally

CRETech July 24, 2019

Placed against our sci-fi expectations, robotics have largely fallen short — with one notable exception. In 2019, automation is a mainstay in factories and warehouses. There the technology has been proven out in the field, and VCs are happy to invest millions.

This morning
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Amazon and Realogy partner up amid brokerage giant’s falling stock and shrinking market cap

CRETech July 24, 2019
Real estate conglomerate Realogy, which has seen a steep drop in stock prices and a shrinking market cap
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Facebook speeds up mapping data validation with machine learning tools Map With AI and RapiD

CRETech July 24, 2019
Millions of roads around the world have yet to be mapped, and that’s a real problem, particularly in the developing world. Missing map data can harm disaster response, community planning, and local economies. And while government-run and tax-funded projects like the U.K.’s Ordnance Survey have produced enormous corpora, they’ve largely failed t...
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Lyft opens to the public autonomous driving data set from its Level 5 self-driving fleet

CRETech July 24, 2019

Lyft is offering to the public a set of autonomous driving data that it calls the “largest public data set of its kind,” containing over 55,000 3D frames of captured footage hand-labeled by human reviewers, data col...

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Real Estate Startup Homeward Secures $25M In Debt & Equity To Help People Buy Homes Faster

CRETech July 24, 2019
There’s so many players in the real estate tech game, it’s hard to keep up. (We’ve tried in numerous pieces such as this one). Now an Austin upstart called Homeward has entered the crowded scene in an ambitious attempt to...
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Fifth Wall Co-Founders Brendan Wallace and Brad Greiwe To Headline Upcoming CREtech Conference in NYC

CRETech July 24, 2019

The Largest Commercial Real Estate Conference of 2019 Coming To Brooklyn For The First Time

New York, NY (July 24, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com), the leading event, content and connectivity platform ...
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Hello Alfred Acquires Building Management Technology Platform Bixby

CRETech July 24, 2019
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hello Alfred, the leading residential experience company, today announced it has acquired the building management technology platform, Bixby, as of today’s date. The acquisition includes Bixby’s assets, team, and customers, and will operate under the Hello Alfred brand. This deal expands Hello Alfred’s foot...
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