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For context and reference, I was one of the esteemed judges at the #REBNYTech Hackathon GAUNTLET CHALLENGE this week. It was the culmination and or finals if you will of a hackathon started by REBNY last fall. I also judged and wrote about that specific event here, #REBNYTECH Hackathon 2017 Will Award A Total Of $75k In Cash And Prizes To Tech Innovators! It was such as positive step forward for R...
The hottest thing in China’s online shopping world is bricks-and-mortar stores. Inman, which started as an online-only women’s fashion brand but has now opened 450 shops, shows why.
The Trend in Online Shopping: Not Shopping Online
CoStar's efforts to court former Xceligent customers after its competitor shut down appear to be paying off.
The D.C.-based commercial real estate data company has signed roughly 1,000 former Xceligent client firms since mid-December, CoStar CEO Andy Florance said on the firm's quarterly earnings call Thursday. CoStar had been embroiled in a yearlong legal battle with Xceligent before its ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Home-booking company Airbnb has sparred with regulators across the globe, but Chief Executive Brian Chesky on Thursday spoke of coming to terms with his responsibility for how the company can impact housing markets and neighborhoods. “Every year I think you have a sense you have even more responsibility than the year before,” Chesky said in an interview with Reuters. C...
Amazon may open six new Amazon Go stores this year Share Tweet Share What's This? Image: stephen brashear/Getty Images By Monica Chin2018-02-22 18:23:58-0500 The first Amazon Go store opened just a month ago, but the franchise's next steps may already be in the works. Amazon could open as many as six new Amazon Go stores this year, reports Recode, citing "people familiar with th...
Home-sharing giant Airbnb announced a new service, Airbnb Plus, this morning, part of a long-awaited strategy announcement, as well as confirmation that the room-sharing service seeks to promote higher-quality, more hotel-like experiences. The Plus service promotes homes that represent a higher-tier of quality, “meet a 100-plus point quality inspection” and are run by hosts “known for great ...
AT&T, GridRaster Team Up to Solve Mobile VR Latency Dilemma Virtual Reality is finding new uses among auto makers, healthcare providers and even astronauts, but VR graphics are often choppy or fuzzy when viewed over a smartphone. Digital overlays and high-end graphics needed to create immersive virtual environments tend to put too much strain on mobile device processors, leaving users scrambli...
Before the days of more sophisticated technology, businesses had to manually stay up-to-date with their schedules, client information, and all other important data. And many still do. Small businesses in particular are less less likely to have more advanced technology due to cost. Instead, they often still rely on spreadsheets or handwritten notes, which only increases the likelihood of making car...
Max Rhodes was walking around that weird little parklet in Hayes Valley in San Francisco after taking a break from a five-year stint at Square to figure out what he wanted to do next — and he kept seeing Square registers everywhere. It was spotting them over and over again in smaller retail shops dotted throughout the city that made him think about the connections between the average product mak...
Every time a tenant enters or exits a Rudin Management-owned property, the building notices. A sensor in a turnstile near the entrance sends a signal to the property’s operating system, dubbed Nantum. The system can sense sudden shifts in occupancy and quickly adjust its heating and air-conditioning depending on the season. Rudin launched the independent tech startup Prescriptive Data — Nantum...