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CREtech
CBRE’s New CDTO, Sandeep Dave, Shares His Perspective on the Acceleration of Real Estate Technology Adoption at CREtech’s Reimagining Real Estate Global Virtual Summit. Moderated by event Co-Chair, Emily Wright of Estates Gazette.
GlobeSt.com
Real estate investment platform PeerStreet recently expanded the opportunities available for investing through its peer-to-peer lending service.
Facility Executive
OSCRE International, a non-profit organization focused on the benefit of real estate standards and data governance for the entire real estate asset life cycle, is providing free access to the OSCRE Industry Data Model™ (IDM). The IDM is a tool developed to improve data integrity, transparency, agile response time, and enable better insights to inform better outcomes for organizations that have struggled with collecting data from disparate systems.
Bisnow
The return to the workplace has been slower than many office owners expected, leading them to consider costlier measures to make employees feel comfortable entering their buildings.
PlaceTech
Two months ago, we presented a demo of our 3D showcasing solution for the first time for an audience of hundreds of people. This was Pi Labs Demo Day 2020, the final event that marked our intense journey in the acceleration programme.
TechCrunch
Riff, a London-based startup developing what it describes as a “voice-first” chat tool for remote working, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding, prior to a full launch next year.
The New York Times
Yellowed newspapers. A mouse who met its end on a glue trap. Wilted plants. These were the scenes we photographed this summer at three New York City offices — including our own — amid a pandemic that has left millions of people out of work and millions more working from home. So what does the future hold for the office and the workers who once inhabited it?
Politico
Many workers are desperate to get back to the office. In Zoom meetings and socially distant conference rooms all over Wall Street, senior executives are trying to map out a post-Covid world. Or at least a late-Covid world. A big piece of these discussions is figuring out how many of the tens of millions of employees currently working remotely need to return to the office.
TechCrunch
Commercial electric vehicle startup Xos Trucks has raised $20 million, funding it will use to ramp up production ahead of potential new demand fueled by a landmark emissions rule adopted by California that will require more than half of all trucks sold in the state to be zero-emissions by 2035.
Axios
Airbnb said Wednesday that it confidentially submitted paperwork to the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. Why it matters per Axios’ Dan Primack: Airbnb had been widely expected to go public earlier in the year, but paused when the pandemic incapacitated global hospitality. What’s still unknown is how much the company has rebounded since this spring and whether investors will effectively give the company a mulligan for 2020….
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