Sonder, once valued at $2B, lays off fifth of employees
SFGATE
A San Francisco short-term rentals company that was valued at $1.9 billion less than a year ago has now laid off a fifth of its corporate employees.

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SFGATE
A San Francisco short-term rentals company that was valued at $1.9 billion less than a year ago has now laid off a fifth of its corporate employees.
WSJ
What research tells us about how to make employees less stressed, more productive—and willing to leave home
CREtech
New York, NY (June 20, 2022) — CREtech, the largest international community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, announced today that speakers from Blackstone, Hines, Ivanhoe Cambridge and Tishman Speyer will join the speaker lineup for CREtech’s flagship event and largest real estate technology conference, CREtech New York, taking place this October 12-13. The two-day conference will feature exclusive keynote presentations, panel discussions, and de…
CREtech
CREtech, the largest international community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, hosted its first ever in-person CREtech Climate Global Leadership Summit in Copenhagen on May 17-19. The Summit assembled the world’s leading sustainability professionals to take real steps towards decarbonizing the real estate industry.
WSJ
Amazon.com Inc.’s AMZN -1.31%▼ long-planned drone-delivery service will make its U.S. debut this year, joining other companies like Walmart Inc. and Alphabet Inc. that have begun shipping goods using unmanned aircraft.
Estate Agent Today
In this article, Kristian Stott, Head of New Business at iamproperty, analyses the digital revolution in our lives and in property and why we still need to think ‘people first, tech second’.
Bisnow
Former Amazon executive Dave Clark, who led the e-commerce behemoth’s rapid warehouse expansion, has joined logistics company Flexport.
PlaceTech
Isobel McKenna, former head of EMEA client solutions at CBRE, will run Upflex’s London-based EMEA HQ following the flex office marketplace’s $30m fundraise. …
PR Newswire
Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, and Mivne Real Estate (K.D.) (TASE: MVNE), announced today the formation of a joint venture, entry into the Israeli market, and the planned development of a multi-tenant data center campus in Israel.
Via Satellite
U.K.-based Satellite Vu will provide climate change data from its thermal monitoring satellites to the United Kingdom real estate market through a partnership with Landmark Information Group.
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