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Masayoshi Son’s $100 billion Vision Fund is preparing another major investment in real estate tech, with plans to lead a $700 million round of financing for Katerra, the construction startup founded by former Flextronics International CEO Michael Marks.
This financing round would value the four-year-old company at more than $4 billion, according to The Information. The SoftBank fund invested ...
During a 5G-focused Mobile Innovation event at last year’s CES, Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon said he hoped to appear at 2019’s show with a working 5G phone on a live network. Since there were exactly zero 5G phones or networks in existence at that point, his plan sounded ambitious, b...
For Immediate Release: January 14, 2019
Miami, FL– Gridics, LLC today announced that Government Technology Magazine, a leading publication covering information technology’s role in state and local government, recently named Gridics as a GovTech 100 company for 2019.
Each year, GovTech.com analyzes the top technology companies based on...
While remaining flexible and evaluating the effectiveness of emergency preparedness plans can be tricky, technology is here to lend a hand – both on the planning and recovery sides. From increasingly accurate weather apps to geographic information system (GIS) mapping that can quickly and easily show which facilities might be affected by an oncoming weather event and to what degree of severity, ...
The 2018 DNA of #CRE survey is now open! Once again, Buildout is partnering with theBrokerList to gather useful data about what the most successful brokers and marketers all across the country do every day.
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The future of AR/VR could be bright, but only if it moves beyond where it is today. 2018 was the first of what look like two transitional years, with a potential shakeout in 2019 before an inflection point in late 2020. Let’s look at where we are today, where we’re heading tomorrow and some of the changes needed to get us there. (Note: There were earlier generations of AR/VR, but this dis...
NEW YORK CITY — A year ago, in January 2018, Walmart expanded its Scan & Go program to 125 stores, calling it a new way to shop with just your phone or a handheld device, and no interacting with cashiers.
By April, that program had all but wrapped up. At the time, a...
The investment firm Vanguard Group has purchased a more than 10 percent stake in Redfin.
Recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission show that Vanguard now owns 9,444,137 Redfin shares, which equates to a 10.54 percent stake in the company, according to Inman. The investm...
In August 2016, D.C.-based nonprofit Search for Common Ground was in about 12,000 square feet at 1601 Connecticut Avenue NW and wanted to reduce its office costs and square footage. Cove—a coworking company with hot desks—offered to instead create a private “hub” for the nonprofit at one of its existing coworking locations.
"Experiential" is usually associated with retail space these days, but property giant JLL believes it has applications in the office sector as well.
Toward that end, JLL has created a program it calls JLL Curae Approach. "Curae" roughly means “I care for” in Latin.
As the program rolls out, the company says, landlords will be able to use it to provide tenants a variety of programming,...