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Bill Allen is CEO, and President of EvolveLAB, Disrupt Repeat, and On Point Scans. These firms synergistically help architects, engineers, and contractors optimize the built environment. He has over 14 years of experience managing technology for buildings in the AEC industry.
Allen has worked with the latest technology for...
OYO, the fast-growing budget hotel startup out of India that’s backed by Airbnb, SoftBank, Grab and Didi, has made an acquisition to expand its footprint into Europe, specifically around self-catering home rentals. The company has picked up @Leisure Group from Axel Springer for about $415 m...
Consumers have moved more and more towards online shopping, and physical retail has taken a hit. As a result, retailers have had to reinvent themselves to compete with these online retailers, who have much lower overhead expenses. For example, a brick and mortar retailer, Best Buy, has matched prices with Amazon and has retooled their physical locations to be showro...
One development in Milwaukee just proved how powerful crowdfunding can be for commercial real estate — when the right project comes along.
This week, J. Jeffers & Co. posted a request for equity investment on the platform CrowdStreet for The Huron, an 11-story, new construction office building in Downtown Milwaukee's Third Ward. Investors poured in $10M over the course of J. Jeffers' 80...
Smart cities are designed to make life easier for their residents: better traffic management by clearing routes, making sure the public transport is running on time and having cameras keeping a watchful eye from above.
But what happens when that data leaks? One such database was open for weeks for anyone to look inside...
WeWork is one of the world's most valuable startups, though just how its business works is widely misunderstood. We look at how WeWork makes money, where it spends it, and how its flywheel operates.
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc dismissed the idea of running a fully automated warehouse in the near future, citing the superior cognitive ability of humans and limitations of current technology.
Scott Anderson, director of Amazon Robotics Fulfillment, said technology is at least 10 years away from fully automating the processing of a single order picked by a worker inside a warehouse.
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The consolidation of the coworking industry took another step forward Thursday.
Industrious is expanding its reach by acquiring TechSpace, a flexible workspace provider that will add seven new locations to its portfolio. The sale price was not made public, and the acquisition, announced in a morning press release, brings TechSpace locations in California, Texas, Virginia and New York under the...
If it ultimately pursues an initial public stock offering, shared office space provider WeWork has the choice of strategies such as paying down debt, trying to make acquisitions and retaining employees with stock grants. Those possibilities will be offset by enhanced regulatory scrutiny, higher compliance costs and shareholder pressure to meet quarterly results.
PALO ALTO, CA—Cushman & Wakefield has a new partnership with Stanford University’s Disruptive Technology and Digital Cities program, a collaboration aimed at identifying, developing and launching transformative technologies within the commercial real estate space. The par...