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Let's fucking get it started! “Do you understand that most if not all of the people who will become or are already your customers come from real estate? Think about that. What do they do every day? Every day and have done for decades. Build, buy, sell, and manage physical structures. How fucking hard is that? Actually, it’s fucking hard. BUT, most if not all of the people that do it keep ...

This year has been a tough one for many young companies. But the problems faced by the founders, investors, and managers of companies such as Uber, Snap, and Blue Apron hasn't dissuaded other entrepreneurs from building new companies with the hope of disrupting existing industries or garnering a coveted billion-dollar unicorn valuation.  Among the rookies were these seven companies, all of w...

Holy hell, it’s been a year for Amazon. Jeff Bezos’ former-online-bookstore dumped $13.7 billion to buy a bunch of grocery stores, that speaker you talk to in your living room that Amazon makes is really popular and a bunch of server farms Amazon runs generate more than $10 billion in revenue annually. The confluence of all these things has led to an incredible rise in its stock on the year �...

Silicon Valley may be awash in robotics companies doing everything from helping factories operate more efficiently to protecting shopping malls, but the region certainly doesn't have a monopoly on automation innovation. Around the world in 2017, inventors showed off a wide variety of robots that handled everything from making homes to running hotels and mixing cocktails. Click through the sli...

We projected 2017 would be a “good, but not great year” for merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the real estate space, and what unfolded was quite significant, including the biggest brokerage acquisition in decades, an ongoing fight for California market share and a busy stint for large regional independent firms … Inman

Technology is so much part of our daily lives that almost all of the news we consume seems to connect to technology and its uses and abuses … Inman

RIYADH (Reuters)- Apple and Amazon are in licensing discussions with Riyadh on investing in Saudi Arabia, two sources told Reuters, part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s push to give the conservative kingdom a high-tech look. A third source confirmed that Apple was in talks with SAGIA, Saudi Arabia’s foreign investment authority. Both companies already sell products in Saudi Arabia via th...

Chula Vista's Amazon offer puts city on world map Elaine Thompson / AP A man stands on a plaza on the Amazon.com campus in downtown Seattle as construction continues on three large, glass-covered domes behind him. A man stands on a plaza on the Amazon.com campus in downtown Seattle as construction continues on three large, glass-covered domes behind him. (Elaine Thompson / AP) Jeff Ristine Wi...

2017 was a significant year in Silicon Valley. The region saw plenty of protests, several big openings, and lots of small moments that left a mark. I was there to capture as many of them as I could. Click through the slideshow to check out some of the best images from an eventful year. And for more from our Year in Review coverage, check out the links below: 17 photos that capture life in Silicon ...

Amazon's search for a second headquarters outside Seattle is just the beginning of tech exodus from expensive coastal cities to cheaper inland locations, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said Wednesday. "Silicon Valley is going to leave Silicon Valley — that's already happened," Kelman told CNBC's "Power Lunch." "The technology companies, the Wall Street companies,...