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CRETECH October 16, 2017
Born out of a frustration with recruiting within the peninsula-trapped City of San Francisco, Terminal is a platform allowing companies to tap into talent abroad. Starting with campuses in Kitchener-Waterloo, Montreal and Vancouver, the startup aims to plant physical flags in as many of the world’s global talent centers as possible. Terminal is being run by 8VC‘s Joe Lonsdale, Atomic‘s Jack ...
CRETECH October 16, 2017
To build or to buy? It’s a question that often arises when companies are assessing their software needs. One company that has experience in both approaches is global commercial real estate brokerage firm, JLL. Over the past couple of years the firm, which manages dozens of company-wide applications, has significantly shifted its technology strategy, going from a primarily build to a buy-focused ...
CRETECH October 16, 2017
Real estate industry leaders anticipate big opportunities coming from newer technology like Predictive Analytics, Big Data, and Marketing Automation over the next five years, but show lukewarm confidence in Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Realty, and Virtual Realty 3D Tours. These findings emerged from a new Imprev Thought Leadership survey asking participants to predict the future of real esta...
CRETECH October 16, 2017
At IREM's Global Summit, the heads of four national organizations shared insights about expanding the industry's talent pool, managing Millennial workers and keeping up with technology. The association leaders who made a joint appearance at the Institute of Real Estate Management Global Summit last week offered diverse insights, but but they agreed on at least one thing: For the real est...
CRETECH October 16, 2017
Bitcoin is already in retail and restaurants — so it was only a matter of time before the cryptocurrency took on real estate. That time is now. Bitcoin is slowly making its way into closings on everything from Lake Tahoe land in California to Manhattan condos to single-family homes in the heart of Texas. "Our buyer has evolved, they've moved from mom and pops to young people who want t...
CRETECH October 16, 2017
If developer Michael Harrah gets his way, Santa Ana will become home to Amazon’s enormous new second headquarters, repurposing three proposed development sites in the city into a 10 million-square-foot, high-tech hub. The Santa Ana real estate tycoon recently unveiled plans to join Irvine and dozens of other suitors nationwide in wooing the online retail giant and the 50,000 well-paying jobs suc...
CRETECH October 16, 2017
Author By Daphne Howland, Corinne Ruff • Published Oct. 16, 2017 Share it post share tweet Dive Brief: As the 13-week Target + Techstars retail accelerator comes to an end, half of the 10 participating startups are leaving with formal agreements with Target for pilot projects, and others are still in talks, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Two overseas startups that participated in the pr...
CRETECH October 16, 2017
Amazon opened its first tech office in Colorado last year, but it has bigger tech hubs in a handful of other cities.
CRETECH October 16, 2017
techcrunch.com While Airbnb continues to grow its number of hosts and guests on the platform, sending the hotel industry into a frenzy, landlords and building owners don’t share the same enthusiasm for the home-sharing platform as Airbnb users. But the company has a new plan that gets each party on board with home-sharing. The company is collaborating with development firm Newgard Development Gr...
CRETECH October 16, 2017
In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Joe Edgar, the co-founder of TenantCloud. Without further ado… What do you do? TenantCloud is a free solution for everyday landlord to make more money from their rental investment. What problem does your product/service solve? With free tools for finding tenants, collecting rent and managing day-to- day tasks TenantClou...