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The company behind the WeWork real-estate empire is starting a “future cities” initiative and has hired former Waze and Google executive Di-Ann Eisnor to run it. According to the We Company, Eisnor and her...
Boris Katz, a principal research scientist at MIT, isn’t that impressed. Over the past 40 years, Katz has made key contributions to the linguistic abilities of machines. In the 1980s, he developed START, a system capable of responding to naturally phrased queries. The ideas used in START helped IB...
Knotel signed two leases for a total of 19,974 square feet on Eighth Avenue in the Garment District, Commercial Observer has learned.
The flex office company inked a five-year deal for an 11,400-square-foot lease at East End Capital’s 580 Eighth Avenue, where they’ll occupy the 15th, 16th and 18th floors...
In its quest to roll out the country’s first commercialized fleet of autonomous trucks, TuSimple has added an improved camera and vision system that lets its vehicles operate at night and in low-light situations. Currently, TuSimple can run its trucks for an average of 12 hours per day, or 50 percent usage, but this new system can push that up to an average...
Blueground, a real estate technology company, announced it raised $20 million in funding from a group of investors including New York City-based entrepreneur Kevin Ryan — who is joining the company’s board of directors. Ryan is known for launching several successful businesses including Business Insider, MongoDB, Gilt Groupe, and Zola.com. And Ryan also served as CEO of DoubleClick before Goog...
The We Company's gambit to become a tech company rather than a real estate company comes with the same modern privacy concerns that dog the tech giants.
Through its acquisitions of startups such as Teem and Euclid, WeWork's umbrella company has built a platform of workplace tracking technology that breaks down the movement of office workers to the most granular levels, Bloomberg reports. Thou...
China’s largest insurer is backing the nation’s ambitious smart city program with investment in technology, panelists said during the ULI Asia Pacific Leadership Convivium, held in Shenzhen, China.
Wei Baisong, chief technical officer and chief product officer at Ping An Capital, the venture arm of one of China’s largest insurance companies, said China has plans for 500 smart cities, comp...
PHILADELPHIA, PA—Truss, a Chicago-based marketplace for commercial real estate listings, is expanding its platform into the Philadelphia market with information about more than 400 available office spaces and 20 coworking locations in downtown Philadelphia. The expansion follows Truss’ latest Series A-2 funding round of $15...
The conversion to primarily open-office floor plans over the past decade is now reaching adolescence, and like many revolutions has created problems as well as possibilities, panelists said at a ULI New York event in February. Industry experts from three tech companies that want to attract the best talent available described what they are seeing in the marketplace based on their considerable and f...