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It’s not a stretch to say that business happens in real-time. Doors open and possibilities present themselves at a moment’s notice, and inaction can mean missed opportunities. At the same time, information has become one of our most valuable commodities. Without accurate, up-to-date data, decision-making is instinctual rather than informed. These facts are leading commercial real estate toward...

Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN) and Hotels.com today announced the top five finalists for Hotel Jumpstart, a mentorship-driven accelerator programme aimed at supporting the most innovative travel-tech start-ups of the future. Following a rigorous selection process from more than 230 applications, a panel of expert judges from EAN and Hotels.com heard 10 shortlisted candidates present their proposa...

Innovation Ahead By Anca Gagiuc on Dec 19, 2017 in Technology With 2017 drawing to a close, we’ve been thinking about the future. The current year’s tech trends have been big and impactful, with artificial intelligence topping the charts. How about 2018? Most likely, technology is set to focus on the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence and machine learning. The Internet of Things...

Our Checklist: First, begin meeting with investors about 6 to 8 months before you actually open up your fundraising round. Use the first meeting to start building the relationship so that you can easily secure a meeting when you are actually raising capital. This way, you won't be scrambling to set meetings when you are actively fundraising (or in a cash crunch). Plan to meet the investor...

If you are working to create a more innovative and connected city or in a private sector job related to smart cities, data, or IoT, these are the conferences that you should not miss this year: Smart Cities: Thriving in the Future (at CES) | Jan. 9-12 | Las Vegas, NVThis event receives heavy global media attention and boasts a total attendance of more than 184,000 industry professionals. The wid...

It feels strange to say this, but, in a way, the threats to radically alter NAFTA by the Trump administration have actually brought positive exposure to the overall benefits of nearshore operations in Mexico, especially in Baja California. What’s odd is that virtually nobody in neighboring Southern California seems to know about it. At the very least, the level of visibility into how productive ...

Co-working startup Mindspace recently raised $20 million as it gears up to launch its first two locations in the U.S. While Mindspace is looking to go big or go home in the U.S., it’s starting off slow with its first two locations in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Mindspace started in Tel Aviv about four years ago and has since expanded to Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom. Mindspace, i...

Hilton Hotels & Resorts has unveiled its vision of the future of hotel experiences, with the launch of the “connected room”, a new feature set to become available at its properties in Dallas, Memphis and Washington D.C. by next year. Connected rooms in those hotels will be enabled by the launch of a new mobile application, called Hilton Honors, which guests can use to control the room’s ...

Nextdoor, the neighborhood social networking site raised about $75 million in a funding round, The Information reported, estimating that the valuation is $1.5 billion. The round was confirmed by TechCrunch. This adds to the over $200 million that the San Francisco-based company has raised, dating back to 2010. Its last reported round was in early 2015 at a $1.1 valuation. The report says that the ...

Real estate heavyweights clearly don’t want to be left in the dust by tech startups that see opportunities to do things more efficiently, more transparently, and more affordably than has previously been possible in the long clubby, expensive, and opaque world of real estate. Just one indicator is their sudden interest in venture capital. Indeed, a six-year-old, Beverly Hills, Ca.-based early-sta...