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How many apps do you have on your phone? And how many do you use on a regular basis? Or how many television services are you subscribed to? Netflix? Hulu? Cable? I currently have three Dropbox, four Gmail, a Yahoo, a Zapier, and a Snappa account (that last one thrown in for good measure). Let’s not even think about kids’ school accounts, online banking, insurance websites, and my Friday night ...

The most wonderful and most terrible things about new technologies are their emergent properties. The latest example is, of course, Fake News On Facebook; who would have thought that connecting everyone via social media would lead to wildly divergent narratives of (so-called) reality? And yet here we are. But if you think social media is messy and weird … just wait until we get self-driving cars...

San Diego's bid for Amazon HQ2: Can it win? Jordan Stead/Amazon Amazon's campus in downtown Seattle photographed from the roof of another Amazon building. The e-commerce giant has put out a request for proposals for a second headquarters location. Amazon's campus in downtown Seattle photographed from the roof of another Amazon building. The e-commerce giant has put out a request for...

Real estate execs and business leaders say they are confident New York will be on Amazon's short list after bids for its second headquarters are submitted this week. After all, the metropolitan area is Amazon's No. 1 sales market, and it's a priority for the company to grow its footprint here. The e-tailer last month leased 360,000 square feet at 5 Manhattan West on top of the 470,0...

John Wechsler doesn’t like to keep the same job for long. His resume is cluttered with short stints leading startups. And for the past 20 years, he has followed his passion quickly from one job to the next. Fadness But Launch Fishers—the co-working space he founded in 2012—has provided enough of the excitement Wechsler seeks in a job. So he’s remained its CEO for five years, even though he...

In this webinar, the teams from Care@Work  (Care.com) and Chiron Health discuss how to create and execute a content marketing strategy in healthcare.  A strong content marketing strategy is critical in healthcare. And crafting a strategy is a long game. Your marketing team must invest time and energy in creating effective content to foster engagement and loyalty from your customers. In this web...

CoStar announced late last week that its database is now fully integrated with LoopNet. My initial reaction was, “What took so long?” and I wondered why they were making such a big deal about something that seemed so obvious. LoopNet was purchased by CoStar in 2012 and has remained mostly separate from the parent regarding the data on each platform. LoopNet is public facing while CoStar is the...

A slew of innovative solutions for roadways has emerged this past year, from solar panel-paved roads to an artificial intelligence-powered program that automatically monitors road conditions. Now another high-tech project can be added to that list. London-based Umbrellium, an urban technology firm, has developed the world’s first smart crosswalk, Starling Crossing, expressly for the smartphone a...

Shoppers are increasingly interested in what they can’t get out of e-commerce–experiential retail–and brick-and-mortar stores are being completely turned around as a result. Everyone in commercial real estate knows retail is today’s most exciting asset class. Malls are closing their doors from coast to coast, and behemoths like Amazon and Walmart have taken out entire categories of indepen...

Productivity seems to be the golden goal of the moment. With so many technological resources at our disposal and the social media/competitive loop urging the crowd on to ever-higher achievements, there seems to be this underlying and overarching sense that we can be more, that we can do more. Plus, it's fun to try to "game the system"-- to figure out those tasks and rituals, that w...