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If I show you a single picture of a room, you can tell me right away that there’s a table with a chair in front of it, they’re probably about the same size, about this far from each other, with the walls this far away — enough to draw a rough map of the room. Computer vision systems don’t have this in...
As WeWork Cos. grows globally, the startup is also packing more people into its rental office spaces. The move helped drive revenue up 110 percent to $342 million last quarter, according to a staff email Thursday about the co-working company’s financial performance.
The occupancy rate for WeWork...
Despite different tech solutions to increase productivity on the job site, construction remains slow to adopt technologies and many field workers face significant pushback over the cost of implementation. Construction professionals are grappling with how to pay for new technology while also explaining to chief information officers and those who approve the budgets how these products are improving ...
The online listings platform for office, retail and industrial properties has raised $9M in venture funding.
Raised in the Chicago suburb of Glencoe, Bobby Goodman, 39, jumped into the world of real estate startups after working as a commercial broker for a little shy of two decades.
He co-founded Truss alongside three technologists, one of whom was a long-time client, in 2016 to serve small...
GlobeSt.com caught up with Bob Courteau, CEO at Altus Group, to talk a bit more about his recent RealComm panel, where he said that he is now seeing a different analytics model that is beginning to focus on a “give get” approach.
Bob Courteau, CEO at Altus Group, recently spoke at RealComm and caught up with GlobeSt.com to talk a bit more about his panel discussion: “The Age of Accelerati...
Looking to bridge the divide between brokers and coworking companies, global coworking network Mindspace has launched what it is billing as a “one-of-a-kind platform” that lets brokers placing tenants in a Mindspace outpost easily register and track referrals, earn commission and streamline all of their data in one place, Commercial Observer has learned.
Drones monitor construction progress. Robots probe the sewer system for insights into human health. Streetlights maximize street parking and report on air pollution.
These innovations are not taken from the storyline of a sci-fi series. They are real technologies in use in so-called “smart cities,” and they have the power to transform urban life in America.
“The 20th century city was r...
Morgan Munsey is a landlord in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a Brooklyn neighborhood with long-time, older residents that’s gotten an influx of young renters. Munsey houses both types of tenants in his townhouse properties — but for the younger crowd, he says, they’ve mostly forgone the traditional rent check and opted for a more tech-friendly method of payment.
Tenants like Lindsay Branham and And...
Ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is also disclosing his first venture capital investment.
The real estate industry requires a lot of money to challenge it: Startups like Opendoor — which buys houses from people and flips them — not only need investment to grow into more cities, but also serious lines of credit in order to purchase homes.
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Construction startup Katerra Inc. on Tuesday said it has added its second architectural firm in two weeks to help it reinvent the design and building industry.
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