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  • Eden slashes jobs at Managed by Q, less than a week after $25M purchase

    THEREALDEAL

    With the ink barely dry on a deal to buy Managed by Q from WeWork, office-management startup Eden has laid off three-quarters of its formal rival’s workforce. Sources said San Francisco-based Eden laid off 75 of Managed by Q’s 100-person team last Tuesday. On Monday, Managed by Q founder Dan Teran posted a “farewell” letter to staffers on Medium, linking to a spreadsheet with the names of 85 former employees who are actively seeking jobs. The layoffs were first reported by Forbes, which also sai…

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  • TFLiving, with $4.8M in seed funding, wants to be the Uber for amenities

    TECHCRUNCH

    TFLiving, looking to bring amenities to residential and commercial spaces, has today announced the close of a $4.8 million seed financing led by Camber Creek. Courtside Ventures, and other strategic investors, also participated in the round. TFLiving uses technology to connect service providers, like massage therapists, yoga instructors and dog walkers, with property managers and their residents. The service allows residents to sign up for classes or services, as well as request other community …

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  • Connecting The Commercial Real Estate and Tech Sectors While Bringing A New Age of Innovation and Growth To The Industry with Ash Zandieh, Chief Intelligence Officer at CREtech.

    THEREALESTATEINNOVATORS

    CREtech is the global leader in live events, research and thought leadership in built world innovation and technology. We host the largest conferences, spotlighting industry  leaders and emerging trends. No other site in the world offers everything in built world tech in one location:

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  • Short-Term Rentals Are Gaining Ground, But Hotels Still Far Outpace Them

    BISNOW

    “[The rise of STRs is] definitely something that everyone needs to pay attention to,” Sam Moon Group Vice President Daniel Moon said. “I think it’s something where there is a place for it … And, as you can see, that trend is growing.”  The numbers coming from the STR community are significant enough to command notice from hoteliers like Moon, who mostly develops full-service hotels, like the Renaissance Dallas in West Plano and the Hyatt Regency at Stonebriar Centre in Frisco, which opens this…

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  • An Update on Bill Gates’ New Smart City in Arizona

    GLOBEST

    A few years ago, Bill Gates has announced plans to build a smart city outside of Buckeye in Arizona. Through his subsidiary Mt. Lemmon Holdings, the billionaire spent $80 million to purchase more than 24,000 acres of land with plans to build a smart city, which will include housing, schools, offices and retail. Since the purchase, there has been limited information on the development of the project.

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  • Proxy launches ‘world’s smallest mobile reader’ for building access

    PLACETECH

    The startup dedicated to empowering all people with smartphone-based identity signals for universal access, has launched a reader so small it can be installed behind existing access card readers in less than five minutes, making it quick and inexpensive for companies to provide employees, tenants, and visitors with smartphone-based building access with zero impact to existing security systems. Before now, companies that wanted to enable smartphone-based building access had to replace their exist…

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  • How 5G Will Transform the Factory Floor

    WSJ

    Are new factory technologies replacing human workers or are they giving them extra abilities so they can focus more on what makes humans irreplaceable in plants? A look at the latest crop of technologies transforming factories suggests the answer is both—at least for now. • Some new tools, including wearable devices and sensors, are helping employees work more safely and efficiently. But others are designed to slash labor costs, such as having machines—unassisted by any human—make parts overnigh…

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  • Startup Tokenizes $2.2B in Commercial Real Estate Through Polymath

    COINDESK

    According to Red Swan CEO Ed Nwokedi, $780 million of that is available to investors in pre-sale, while the company has another $4 billion in real estate in its tokenization pipeline. The $2.2 billion represents 16 different Class A commercial properties based in Austin and Houston, Texas, Brooklyn, N.Y., Oakland, Calif., and Ontario, Canada. Tokenization has struggled to transform the multitrillion-dollar real estate market as institutions hesitate to re-engineer back offices until the…

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  • European proptech is on the rise, as sector funding grows 550% in five years: research report

    TECHEU

    Proptech investment fund PropTech1 Ventures has put together a solid research report on – surprise – proptech. More specifically, the firm is today releasing an analysis of the European proptech landscape, examining trends and key market developments in this growing space. The report, which you can download free of charge here, shows that the sector is showing consistent signs of growth over the past few years despite its relatively early stages of development in Europe….

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  • Convene and Lane Join Forces for Investment Partnership

    GLOBEST

    NEW YORK CITY- Flexible workplace provider Convene has partnered with work experience platform provider Lane to launch a strategic partnership. Convene will become an investor in Lane to further the Toronto-based company’s interests in the U.S., and Lane will promote Convene as its partner of choice for amenity-rich and flexible workplaces. …

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