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Jim Clark just can’t quit starting companies. The billionaire cofounder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape, myCFO, Healtheon, and Shutterfly, moved to Florida roughly 16 years ago to dive into the Miami real estate market. Now Clark, a native Texan who dropped out of high school, is back with a new tech startup: CommandScape, a home-automation and building-control system that controls air conditionin...

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a critical key to success in commercial real estate. Yet according to an executive survey by Merkle, up to 60% of CRM systems will fail. After surveying 352 senior level executives in organizations worth one billion dollars or more, Merkle reported that companies that fail to see the importance of CRM are consistently low-growth. Additionally, high-growth ...

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Home-tech aficionados who already have robotic dog toys, smart salt shakers, and wireless turntables, here’s your next big product: A solar-powered, 7-square-foot umbrella that rotates and tilts as the sun moves across the sky. The ShadeCraft Sunflower solves a problem you didn’t even know you had. Instead of having to laboriously move your $29.99 Target umbrella to stay in the shade all day, ...

CoreNet Global The Pulse Blog Search Deep Learning: Its Time Has ComeAugust 22, 2017|In CoreNet Global News|By David Harrison “Alexa, when will artificial intelligence start to impact the way that we do business in noticeable ways?” Alexa: It already has. That’s the point being made by Abhinav Somani, Chief Revenue Officer, LEVERTON Corporation, in a new white paper for CoreNet Global. Soman...

Watch out, Rust Belt: The robots are coming. And they’re after one of the more precious resources in these beleaguered U.S. manufacturing hubs: jobs. That, at least, is the implication of a new analysis by the Brookings Institute, “Where the robots are,” that suggests the rise of robotics and automation will clobber the same areas hit by manufacturing’s decline, as technology radically cha...

Tulip Retail Raises $40 Million, Led by Kleiner PerkinsAs seen on PR Newswire. Series B Round Led by Kleiner Perkins With Participation from Existing Investors Including Jump Capital NEW YORK, August 22, 2017 – Tulip, a mobile application platform built exclusively for retail stores and sales associates, today announced it has raised $40 million in Series B funding.  Kleiner Perkins led the rou...

Acasa is building a platform for ‘Generation Rent' to manage their homes Posted 5 hours ago by Steve O'Hear (@sohear) 0 SHARES Next Story eBay opens U.S. platform to Africa with MallforAfrica.com partnership London-based startup Acasa has come a long way since we covered its seed round in late 2015. The company, then called Splittable, offered a way to manage and share household expens...

Walmart is taking the competition up a notch, or rather, a few hundred feet. In a move that comes nearly a year after Amazon was awarded a patent for a similar concept, the retail giant applied for a U.S. patent for a floating warehouse, Bloomberg reports. The blimp would float above the country between 500 feet and 1,000 feet and would be operated autonomously or by a remote human pilot. The floa...

Walmart wants to mimic Amazon’s far-out technology again — and this time the copycatting involves blimps. The Arkansas-based retailer has filed a patent for a “gas-filled aerial transport” — basically a blimp that would serve as a flying warehouse full of inventory to be picked up and delivered by drones. That’s on the heels of Amazon — whose plans to use drones at its warehouses on ...