Hospitality Archives | Page 22 of 30 | CREtech

Google predicts driverless cars will be commercially available by 2020. This seismic shift in how people get from place to place will change where and how we as a society live and work. The future of commercial driverless cars Think you’ll own your own driverless car that will sit idly when not in use? Think again. Driverless cars will be a utility, not a luxury afforded to few. People will no l...

Walmart and Google are today announcing a new partnership that will enable voice shopping through Google Assistant, Google’s virtual assistant that lives on devices like its smart speaker, Google Home. Specifically, consumers will now be able to take advantage of Walmart’s “Easy Reorder” feature through an integration with Google’s shopping service, Google Express. This will allow consum...

Jim Clark just can’t quit starting companies. The billionaire cofounder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape, myCFO, Healtheon, and Shutterfly, moved to Florida roughly 16 years ago to dive into the Miami real estate market. Now Clark, a native Texan who dropped out of high school, is back with a new tech startup: CommandScape, a home-automation and building-control system that controls air conditionin...

CoreNet Global The Pulse Blog Search Deep Learning: Its Time Has ComeAugust 22, 2017|In CoreNet Global News|By David Harrison “Alexa, when will artificial intelligence start to impact the way that we do business in noticeable ways?” Alexa: It already has. That’s the point being made by Abhinav Somani, Chief Revenue Officer, LEVERTON Corporation, in a new white paper for CoreNet Global. Soman...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is taking on Amazon in what appears to be a copycat move — by applying for a drone-deploying blimp patent. You may recall about a year ago Amazon filed a patent for a flying warehouse that will send drones to your door. Now Walmart wants in on Amazon’s idea. The patent application, first noted in Bloomberg, shows the Walmart blimp would float about 500 to 1,000 feet in the...

According to KPMG, this year in Q1 2017 global investment in FinTech companies hit $3.2 billion across 260 deals… and this is just the beginning. The way the internet changed publishing and music, FinTech is now changing industries like commercial real-estate (CRE) by modernizing the old-school processes used by finance. It’s no secret that collecting receivables for CRE companies is a challen...

Leading Brokerage Firms in the Commercial Real Estate Industry Coming to CRE // Tech New York on December 7, 2017 Heads of Technology, Innovation and Operations at CBRE, Colliers, Cushman & Wakefield, JLL and NKF to speak at the largest event ever in CRE tech industry New York, NY (August 21, 2017)-- CRE // Tech (cretech.com) announced that the 2017 CRE // Tech New York Event will feature a pa...

Capital Float, which claims to be the largest online lending platform in India, announced today that it has raised a $45 million Series C led by Ribbit Capital. Returning investors SAIF Partners, Sequoia India and Creation Investments also participated. Capital Float’s last round of funding was a $25 million Series B in May 2016. It has now raised about $87 million in total equity financing sinc...

eMoov, one of a number of online real estate agents fighting it out in the U.K., has picked up £9 million in new backing. The round was led by consumer investment group JXC Ventures, with participation from existing investors Episode 1 VC, Maxfield Capital, Spire and Startive Ventures. Gaby Salem of Wharton Asset Management has also invested in a personal capacity, along with unnamed high net wor...

I read an article recently that said consumer-goods giant Unilever has been hiring entry-level team members using brain games and artificial intelligence. Wait a minute … hear me out. Rather than head to universities to collect resumes and in-person interviews, Unilever has turned to technology —that is, after all, where the workforce is today. Candidates first learn about job opportunities vi...