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CRETech April 11, 2019

Amazon has acquired Boulder, Colo.-based warehouse robotics startup Canvas Technology, TechCrunch has learned. The deal makes a lot of sense from the outside, adding another important piece to Amazon Robotics’ gro...

CRETech April 11, 2019
Opendoor, a real-estate startup that broke new ground by enabling users to buy or sell homes online with the click of a button, is moving to work more closely with the brokerage industry.
The San Francisco-based company said it is launching this week an agent partnership program, which will refer customers to real-estate agents vetted by Opendoor. It is also testing a co-...
CRETech April 11, 2019

CREtech and MIT Center for Real Estate Join Forces for Second Straight Year to Present Next-Gen CRE Tech Ideas and Trends

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CRETech April 10, 2019
Grocers, alarmed at Amazon.com Inc.’s rapid growth in Europe, are considering fighting back with the help of a tiny Portuguese startup. Sensei, a 16-month-old technology company based in Lisbon that’s backed by Germany’s Metro AG and ...
CRETech April 10, 2019
The country’s largest cluster of co-working and flexible office space is only just across the Hudson River, but the fast-growing industry is still largely absent from New Jersey. Experts say that is due to change — and it’s only a matter of time. Already, landlords in some of New Jersey’s largest mixed-use projects have incorporated co-working into their properties. The state is also...
CRETech April 10, 2019
Uber is launching a new program that makes it easier for businesses to give their customers free rides on the ride-hailing service. Called Uber Vouchers, the new initiative is designed to help any company “sponsor transportation,” according to Ronnie Gurion, global head at Uber for Business, in a
CRETech April 10, 2019
Warehouses are getting smarter, and distribution channels are getting more efficient. As consumers demand faster delivery of goods, the industrial sector will play a huge role in making that happen and technology will be the driver. That is according to Jimmy Ullrich, director of Stan Johnson Co., who recently chatted with GlobeSt.com on demand for industrial product and what he future looks like ...
CRETech April 10, 2019
After about two years of operation in the United States, Uber Freight is opening up shop in Europe, its aim there seemingly the same as here — to disrupt logistics in the same way it upended the taxi business. Instead of brokering rides for people, the Uber Freight app brokers rides for goods, allowing carriers and drivers to book a load with just a few taps of a button.
CRETech April 10, 2019

In 2006 Yair Goldberg was sure automated parking was about to take off. As an executive at Israeli industrial-automation firm Unitronics, he had just led its first project in the United States, a retrofit...

CRETech April 10, 2019
In this brief video from the recent Real Estate Capital Markets Conference hosted by Goodwin and Columbia Business School, experts discuss trends in PropTech, including the current state and predictions for where the space is headed. Zach Aarons, Co-Founder and Partner of MetaProp explains, “The beauty of PropTech is innovation is happening very quickly, but we’re still in the early days of it...