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CRETECH November 29, 2017
Navigation Start Here About Blog Resources Contact Search Start Here About Blog Resources Contact Search The Real Estate Software Powering Our Growth: Featuring Dealpath Joe Stampone November 29, 2017 Featured, Innovation/Technology Leave a Comment Over the past 7 years, Atlas has acquired 45 properties with a total deal value of ~$800M. Over that time, we’ve grown from 3 guys in a 100 SF shared...
CRETECH November 29, 2017
Microsoft has announced a massive expansion plan aimed at modernizing its headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Unlike fellow Washington-based tech giant Amazon, which is seeking a second HQ in a new location, Microsoft is building on existing ground in order to “grow right here at home.” Its current Redmond Campus includes 125 buildings that house a workforce of around 48,000, but its expansio...
CRETECH November 28, 2017
Retail workers lacking tech toolsAs seen on Retail Leader. Retail workers are not equipped with the mobile devices they need in order to offer shoppers the frictionless shopping experience they expect, according to a new survey. A new retail store associate survey by Tulip, a mobile application provider focused on empowering workers in retail stores, shows that 61% of store associates are not arm...
CRETECH November 28, 2017
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...
CRETECH November 28, 2017
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...
CRETECH November 28, 2017
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...
CRETECH November 28, 2017
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...
CRETECH November 28, 2017
WeWork reportedly plans to buy Meetup Posted 40 minutes ago by Catherine Shu (@catherineshu) 0 SHARES Next Story Doctolib raises another $42 million for its medical care scheduling service Co-working space giant WeWork will acquire Meetup, according to Crunchbase News. The report says Meetup chief executive officer and co-founder Scott Heiferman shared the news with employees at a company-wide me...
CRETECH November 26, 2017
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...
CRETECH November 24, 2017
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...