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Wall Street Journal
Home-financing startup Knockaway Inc. hired its first finance chief to set its house in order as it looks to expand into dozens of markets amid strong demand for housing in the U.S. Michelle DeBella started as chief financial officer of New York-based Knockaway, which does business as Knock, on Dec. 28.
Bisnow
With nonessential offices closed since December, most office occupiers are once again facing uncertainty about their office space, waiting until California and LA County regulations allow for a broader return to the office and until pandemic conditions improve so workers and employers feel better about returning to a physical office.
Sublet
COVID-19 has spared no generation, but has put a unique burden on Gen-Zers—the roughly 67 million Americans born between 1997 and 2012—who are just entering the workforce, starting college, or graduating high school amid an international pandemic. Despite the coronavirus grinding everyday life as we know it to a halt, the Gen Z demographic is still charting its courses as these young adults choose cities to start building their lives, look for education and job opportunities, and enter into adul…
Connect Media
AEBOV, LLC has launched as an industrial real estate brokerage start-up with a proprietary interactive property valuation method. The online-based portal is reportedly the first of its kind in the industry. “We sensed that owners wanted a more collaborative valuation process, that allows them to bring new information to light, ask thoughtful questions, and change assumptions in our models in order to gain the most comprehensive understanding of their property’s value and potential value,” said D…
TechCrunch
MIT researchers are looking to address the significant gap between how quickly robots can process information (relatively slowly), and how fast they can move (very quickly thanks to modern hardware advances), and they’re using something called “robomorphic computing” to do it. The method, designed by MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) graduate Dr. Sabrina Neuman, results in custom computer chips that can offer hardware acceleration as a means to faster response times….
GeekWire
Seattle startup Flexe raised an additional $10 million as part of its Series C funding round announced in December. Flexe CEO Karl Siebrecht said there was more investor interest than anticipated.
Smart Building Certification
Smart Building Certification, the organization behind the smart accreditation, awarded its first platinum building. The founders of Smart Building Certification handed the first official platinum certification over to Coen van Oostrom, Founder and CEO of EDGE. EDGE Olympic Amsterdam has been called the smartest building in the world since its launch in 2018. It surpassed its predecessor The Edge also built by EDGE, formally OVG Real Estate. The building combines technology for building utilizat…
Smart Cities World
Its new software product VantageCare is a managed service that utilises process virtualisation to continuously and proactively monitor intersections and arterials.
AXIOS
Two of Washington’s biggest lobbying groups say they support the Biden administration’s plan to regulate methane emissions from oil and gas wells. Why it matters: The shift, instigated by the Chamber of Commerce and American Petroleum Institute, is one of the most concrete signs of how corporations are beginning to support action on climate change in the face of pressure from investors, politicians and the public.
Fast Company
In May, when the pandemic was solidly in what would be its first peak in cities around the United States, office electricity consumption dropped by nearly 25%—a predictable dip as many companies closed their doors and turned off the lights. Energy-sucking office equipment and lighting systems were switched either off or to standby mode as workers left the buildings, and office electricity use came down to record lows. That’s according to Hatch Data, which tracks and analyzes building data from…
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