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Entrepreneurs are taking the pop-up concept in hospitality and running with it in all directions. Pop-up hotels are appearing in recently completed apartment buildings — that's the model of the growing WhyHotel — and around the world in tents, yurts and other temporary or remodeled structures.
NEW YORK, NY—Venture Capital firm Camber Creek has been focused on the real estate market since its inception in 2011, with many of the companies it has backed now a fixture in the industry.
“I owned, operated and managed a CRE company where, in the course of doing business, I noticed that a lot of the processes were old-fashioned and awkward. I then realized that there wasn’t much techno...
When Conor Sprouls, a customer service representative in the call center of the insurance giant MetLife talks to a customer over the phone, he keeps one eye on the bottom-right corner of his screen. There, in a little blue box, A.I. tells him how he’s doing.
Talking too fast? The program flashes an icon of a speedometer, indicati...
Inside a cavernous warehouse in South San Francisco, 16-foot-tall walls of kale and other greens stretch down aisles twice the length of a bowling lane. Matt Barnard, CEO and cofounder of Plenty, the startup that designed and built the indoor farm, points to two types of mustard greens called mizuna and tatsoi. “This is one of the blends that we are working to position against junk food...
Five months after Dorian Twiggs packed up her life in Detroit and moved to Charlotte, N.C., to work as a mortgage underwriter for Accenture ACN -0.51% PLC, a mana...
Commercial real estate data giant CoStar Group is expanding its network of multifamily listing websites with a new acquisition.
The D.C.-based company announced Thursday it acquired Off Campus Partners, an online marketplace for student housing. It did not disclose the acquisition price.
Off Campus Partners, founded by a University of Virginia student in 2000, provides an online listing ser...
Commercial building rooftops face revolutionary design changes if Uber Air's plan to launch flying ride-sharing vessels by 2023 takes off.
With passengers landing on rooftop Skyports, the roof would be the new front door, and from green spaces and parks on urban rooftops to observational decks and complementary retail outlets and restaurants, Uber Air could turn the “party on the roof” co...
Following the buzz around Slack’s unconventional route to a Wall Street debut this week, Airbnb is considering a similar strategy.
The home-sharing platform is one of more than a dozen firms that are in talks with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley — who, along with Allen & Co., dominate in the field of Silicon Valley direct listings — about the option, people familiar with the matter t...