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The few dozen steps spanning the length of a new studio unit at Domain Heights incorporate a veritable check, check, check of what developers have billed as the amenity-heavy future of apartment living.
Shopify put a spotlight on the role and significance of logistics and fulfillment in e-commerce when it snapped up Deliverr for $2.1 billion last week to gain its own, direct foothold into providing those services for its e-commerce customers a la Amazon. Now, an up-and-coming startup in fulfillment in Europe has closed a round of funding to fuel its own growth. Byrd, which is building a network o...
IKEA is to invest €3 billion, about $3.16 billion, in opening city-center stores and outfitting existing big-box locations to act as distribution hubs for online orders as the furniture giant looks to adapt to changing shopping habits.
In the last two years, BetaKit has reported on massive #CDNtech funding rounds leading to billion-dollar valuations. Here’s an interview with the Canadian VC who says those numbers are meaningless.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky recently announced that the company’s employees will be able to work from anywhere, including (for up to three months) overseas. He also abolished location -based pay, at least within the U.S. In the days following the announcement, Airbnb’s recruiting page received a million visitors. The company, which laid off a quarter of its staff during the pandemic, also released...
Companies throughout the U.S. are flooding the market with office space they want to sublease, aggravating landlords already facing weak demand as more tenants embrace hybrid work.
Flexible office space is coming back into the fold. After a rocky year leading up to the pandemic, flexible office space is once again spiking in popularity with the growing prevalence for remote and hybrid work, In short, it is becoming an important part of an office portfolio.
In April, First American Chief Innovation Officer Paul Hurst participated in a panel discussion at Inman Connect in New York, discussing the shifting capital environment for public and private proptech companies. Hurst offers some highlights from the panel discussion, discusses what the re-rating of proptech valuations means for the pace of real estate innovation in 2022, and shares insights from ...
Industrious, a provider of flexible workspaces that’s backed by CBRE Group Inc., acquired Great Room Offices and Welkin & Meraki to expand its footprint in Asia and Europe.
Route Konnect, a Cardiff-based AI software company, has picked up $1 million in a pre-seed equity investment round, which was led by the Development Bank of Wales’ Technology Seed Fund. also, additional investment came from proptech VC Pi Labs, early-stage investors SFC Capital and private angel investors with the backing of Plug and Play, the early investors in Dropbox and PayPal.