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CRETech June 24, 2019

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...

CRETech June 24, 2019
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...
CRETech June 24, 2019
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...
CRETech June 24, 2019
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...
CRETech June 24, 2019
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...
CRETech June 24, 2019
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...
CRETech June 24, 2019

This week, a young, New York-based startup called Alma raised $8 million in funding to expand its “co-practicing community of therapists, coaches, and wellness professionals,” which it first launched from a space on Madison Avenue last fall.

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CRETech June 21, 2019
From the outside at least, all was quiet at co-living firm The Collective, and then suddenly, bang, everything was happening at once. The company’s original 546-bed scheme at Old Oak Common in London spent more than a year on the market but didn’t sell. Then in October it was refinanced by Deutsche Bank at a value above the original asking price.
CRETech June 21, 2019
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...
CRETech June 21, 2019

Years ago, a mobile app for email launched to immediate fanfare. Simply called Mailbox, its life was woefully cut short — we’ll get to that. Today, its founders are back with their second act: An AI-enabled assistant called Navigator meant to help teams work and communicate more effic...