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Tech-by-the-Bay: Less of a bubble, more of an economic revolution November 28, 20170 CommentsBy JLL Edge November 28, 2017 By: Steffen Kammerer, Senior Vice President, JLL JLL’s latest report on Tech Office Trends shows the Bay Area’s continuing dominance as a global center of innovation. This may be news to some of you reading this, but the revered “three dot” Chronicle columnist Herb C...
A new partnership between autonomous driving startup Optimus Ride and release estate developer LStar Ventures will see self-driving vehicle access offered up to residents of a new urban development near Boston called Union Point, via a revenue generating last mile commuter and local destination autonomous travel service. The partnership will see the Union Point neighborhood, which occupies 1,550 a...
Did you know that some of the biggest companies around today came from humble beginnings? By now, almost everyone knows Apple’s origin story and how Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak spent endless hours hand-building computers in their Cupertino garage. What you may not have known was that Amazon, which is now the largest online retailer in the world, started as a bookstore in 1994. Jeff Bezos ran th...
StrideUp, a U.K. startup founded last year by Sakeeb Zaman and Rohan Trivedi, both formerly of Deutsche Bank, wants to make shared home ownership more readily available within the private housing sector. The company, which launched in the summer, lets you buy a portion of your home while you continue to rent the remainder. The idea, Trivedi tells me, is to provide an alternative to a mortgage, a f...
The BriefNavigant expects around 35 million e-bikes to be purchased this year. In comparison, electric vehicles currently account for about 1% of all vehicle sales around the globe, with about 1.15 million units to be produced worldwide.E-bikes have become popular in Europe and are now viewed as an alternative to cars, according to the New York Times. About 400K e-bikes are projected to be sold...
Aibo is Back By Anca Gagiuc on Nov 24, 2017 in Technology Just in time for the holidays, Sony has resurrected the robot pet it removed from shelves in 2006. This new model is called aibo, which stands for Artificial Intelligence robot. Aibo is also the Japanese word for “companion” or “friend.” The new model (no. ERS-1000) develops from a newborn puppy to an adult with personality shaped b...
We’re living in such a digital world these days that it almost feels as if we barely need to leave our homes to run everyday errands. You don’t have to visit the grocery store to get produce at your front door, or need to head to the movies to watch the hottest new flicks. You can get beauty products from across the world on your front step with free 2-day shipping, and getting food from your ...
Written by ADMIN on 11.21.17 in Commercial Real Estate, Industrial, Market Trends, Retail- No comments Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and while the commercial real estate industry has experienced its share of challenges this year, it's also evolving at an unprecedented rate. Change creates opportunity, and from booming industrial markets to the promise of new technologies, CRE profe...
You can’t be a CRE blogger and not talk about Amazon. They have single-handedly impacted not only the way the entire retail space operates, but the physical structures of commercial real estate, as well. More recently, I’ve talked about my thoughts on Amazon Go and some other ways the ecommerce behemoth has been shaking up literally everything we know. But today, I want to talk about friction....
Walmart is further expanding into same-day delivery with the help of its existing delivery partner, Deliv. The companies today announced they will now be working together to power same-day grocery delivery in the San Jose area, where users will be able to shop online then schedule deliveries from 8 AM to 8 PM, seven days a week. Deliv and Walmart have been working together for some time, including...