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In its quest to gobble up as many leases as possible, WeWork has signed another four locations in Manhattan this week for its “headquarters” offering. The flexible office space giant, which is signing dozens of deals as it gears up for an initial public o...

LONDON (Reuters) - Venture capital investors backed Immense Simulations, a British software company which creates interactive replicas of cities, on Tuesday in the latest sign of money pouring into firms that stand to gain from driverless vehicles becoming more mainstream. Immense Simulations raised $4.6 million in its Series A funding round co-led by British venture capital firm Amadeus Capi...

Imagine walking into a store, its shelves empty. But through an app on your phone, you could see several products virtually come to life as if you were looking through the aisles of a traditional retail store. Three-dimensional racks of clothes pop into existence. Wave your phone over another area and a computer-generated box of Tide laundry detergent appears on the floor. Wave it over a differ...

Zillow Group ZG -1.89% says it can profit from a cooling housing market, while skeptics fear a downturn could dent the company’s new business. Which side is right?...

In an all-hands meeting this afternoon, the scooter and bike-sharing phenom Lime announced co-founder and chief executive officer Toby Sun would transition out of the C-suite to focus on company culture and R&am...

Welcome to the second episode of the Goodwin Proptech Series, where Blake Liggio discusses the rise of tech-experience in the C-suites and boardrooms of real estate firms. Blake Liggio is a partner in Goodwin’s Real Estate Industry group. Mr. Liggio focuses on mergers and acquisitions, including the representation of acquirors, targets, boards of directors, transaction commit...

Workplace management and staff connectivity have transformed over the past decade. The rise of smartphones and cellular-connected tablets have made the process of tracking, recording and communicating with employees, visitors and contractors effortless. Pair this with geofencing, and you can create the workplace of the future, today. With the capability of geofencing on your side, you can ef...

Amazon.com Inc. has launched many brick-and-mortar experiments in the past few years: bookstores, grocery pickup kiosks, cashierless convenience stores. Yet none of these have shown as much promise as the e-commerce giant’s unlikely partnership with Kohl’s Corp., the very definition of an old-school retailer. Two years ago, Kohl’s agreed to let Amazon customers return packages at stores ...