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CRETech January 29, 2019
Retailers that have been turning to robots to handle inventory in warehouses are testing whether machines can handle a new task: detecting when store shelves need restocking. Keeping track of inventory and doing it quickly has become one of the most pressing supply-chain concerns for merchants as they try to put into place new strategies for selling and delivering goods under the fast-changing ...
CRETech January 29, 2019
United Parcel Service Inc. will expand its use of keyless-entry technology to deliver packages at apartment buildings. After successfully testing the technology in New York and San Francisco, UPS will extend keyless entry to 10 other cities – including Miami, Los Angeles ...
CRETech January 29, 2019
New York, January 14, 2019 – Cloud-based technology continues to revolutionize the real estate appraisal and valuation industry as FUEL Enterprises, the next-generation asset valuation and forecasting platform, announced its integration partnership with Valcre, commercial real estate’s most innovative appraisal technology platform. Valcre will integrate with the innovative cash-flow modeli...
CRETech January 29, 2019
Wireless carrier T-Mobile, along with Intel and Ericsson, recently completed the world’s first 5G data and video call on 600 MHz on a live commercial network. The teams created a 5G signal that was capable of covering more than a thousand square miles from a single tower during the tests in Las Vegas,
CRETech January 29, 2019
The retail market successfully emerged into 2019 with a bright future ahead, but that doesn’t mean the industry as a whole isn’t looking to minimize costs moving forward. Particularly in terms of IT. “Everybody wants to innovate, but as inexpensively as possible,” said Sucharita Kodali, vice president and principal analyst at
CRETech January 29, 2019

Airbnb has acquired Gaest.com, an online marketplace for renting out meeting spaces for just hours at a time, the company announcedFriday.

Gaest was founded in Denmark in 2015 by CEO Anders Mogensen. It's used by guests to book spaces for meetings, team building events and "even photoshoots," according to the press release....

CRETech January 28, 2019
AirWorks Solutions, a property tech mapping and surveying startup, just raised $2.3 million in seed funding. Boston-based Innospark Ventures led the funding round, and the company’s managing director, Venkat Srinivasan, will join AirWorks’ board of directors, representatives for AirWorks announced on Friday.
CRETech January 28, 2019

In startup circles, it’s trendy to talk about how entrepreneurs are leaving high-tax, high cost-of-living metros for cheaper locales. While Silicon Valley remains ground central for hobnobbing with investors, the common wisdom goes, early-stage funding stretches much further elsewhere.

As memes go, it makes sense. But does the data bear this out? Is Texas turning i...
CRETech January 28, 2019

No one will be entirely safe from automation in the future, but according to a new study out of the Brookings Institute, around 25 percent of U.S. jobs are at “high risk.” It’s a stark bit of foreshadowing in a job market that has yet t...

CRETech January 28, 2019
Amazon.com Inc. will use robots to deliver packages in the suburbs north of Seattle, its latest experiment to automate the last-mile of delivery that’s a labor-intensive and costly component of buying products online. The e-commerce giant on Wednesday