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Retail workers lacking tech toolsAs seen on Retail Leader. Retail workers are not equipped with the mobile devices they need in order to offer shoppers the frictionless shopping experience they expect, according to a new survey. A new retail store associate survey by Tulip, a mobile application provider focused on empowering workers in retail stores, shows that 61% of store associates are not arm...

There has never been a better time for entrepreneurs and business owners who wish to thrive in the B2B sector. With enterprise activity and competition at very high levels in 2017, B2B companies require advanced tools to run their business processes, and they are more interested in finding the right Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tools than on developing in-house solutions. With this in mind, here a...

Tech-by-the-Bay: Less of a bubble, more of an economic revolution November 28, 20170 CommentsBy JLL Edge November 28, 2017  By: Steffen Kammerer, Senior Vice President, JLL JLL’s latest report on Tech Office Trends shows the Bay Area’s continuing dominance as a global center of innovation. This may be news to some of you reading this, but the revered “three dot” Chronicle columnist Herb C...

A new partnership between autonomous driving startup Optimus Ride and release estate developer LStar Ventures will see self-driving vehicle access offered up to residents of a new urban development near Boston called Union Point, via a revenue generating last mile commuter and local destination autonomous travel service. The partnership will see the Union Point neighborhood, which occupies 1,550 a...

WeWork announced on Tuesday that it bought Meetup, a website for organizing group trips and events.  Terms of the deal weren't announced, but Axios said the price was around $200 million. Meetup is only one of a slew of new investments and purchases the $20 billion startup has made in recent months.    WeWork, the startup building a network of coworking offices and apartments, announced on...

You can’t, you think you can but no, you can’t. What does it take to have a competitive real estate company today? At at least the basic level it should be what? Are you sure or are you just hoping it won't change until you retire? The Evolution of REX. Prototypes, Seed Rounds, and Beta. By definition, a quant is an expert at analyzing and managing quantitative data. Seems like a pretty b...

Did you know that some of the biggest companies around today came from humble beginnings? By now, almost everyone knows Apple’s origin story and how Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak spent endless hours hand-building computers in their Cupertino garage. What you may not have known was that Amazon, which is now the largest online retailer in the world, started as a bookstore in 1994. Jeff Bezos ran th...

StrideUp, a U.K. startup founded last year by Sakeeb Zaman and Rohan Trivedi, both formerly of Deutsche Bank, wants to make shared home ownership more readily available within the private housing sector. The company, which launched in the summer, lets you buy a portion of your home while you continue to rent the remainder. The idea, Trivedi tells me, is to provide an alternative to a mortgage, a f...

WeWork reportedly plans to buy Meetup Posted 40 minutes ago by Catherine Shu (@catherineshu) 0 SHARES Next Story Doctolib raises another $42 million for its medical care scheduling service Co-working space giant WeWork will acquire Meetup, according to Crunchbase News. The report says Meetup chief executive officer and co-founder Scott Heiferman shared the news with employees at a company-wide me...

Alternative Assets Nov 27 2017 | by EQUITYMULTIPLE Staff A brand spanking new Portfolio dashboard Real Estate Crowdfunding: Game-Changer, Tech Tool or Top-of-Market Mania? The Modern Alternative Assets Landscape A growing body of evidence suggests that greater exposure to alternative assets can boost portfolio returns and offer downside protection alongside a portfolio of traditional assets. At a ...