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Real estate CIOs drive deals with data

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The residential real estate industry may not be perceived to be as digitally aggressive as Wall Street titans and multinational manufacturing conglomerates. As for Keller Williams, Chief Technology and Digital Officer Chris Cox sees the cloud as an engine for innovation. “We minutes from the moment the property is listed.

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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

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South African startup Flow wants to change how real estate agencies, developers and agents interact with their end customers. With its APIs, Flow connects to the websites of estate agencies and property developers and automates advertising for them on social media channels like Instagram and Facebook.

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How to create a culture of innovation

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A shift has occurred and IT is now viewed as an equal partner in driving business growth with CIOs recognized as the de facto leaders of innovation. Here, they and others share seven ways to create and nurture a culture of innovation. Innovation is a double-edged sword: It is critical to growth — but that’s also what makes it risky. “It

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Enabling a data-driven IT modernization strategy

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This is their chance to consider: what innovative capabilities can be unlocked from siloed data that could carry them into the future and how would understanding that inform technology modernization decisions? Modernization wasn’t a priority for the systems that supported real estate or insurance.

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Placer.ai, a location analytics startup, finds $100M at a $1B valuation

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It’s being led by Josh Buckley (the CEO of Product Hunt), with participation from WndrCo (Disney/Dreamworks’ supremo Jeffrey Katzenberg’s investment firm), Lachy Groom, MMC Technology Ventures LLC, Fifth Wall Ventures and Array Ventures, as well as a swathe of real estate names, including J.M.

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Unpacking Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPAC deals for Latch and Sunlight Financial

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Latch, an enterprise SaaS company that makes keyless-entry systems, has raised $152 million in private capital, according to Crunchbase. Keyless locks = Peloton for real estate. As Chamath tweeted this morning, Latch is merging with TS Innovation Acquisitions Corp , or $TSIA. Let’s find out.

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The network is your office intelligence center

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As an IT decision maker, it’s up to you to transform your network for the future so it can anticipate worker needs, reduce energy usage, reinforce security, and deliver real-time data for a faster path to innovation. Done right, your network can be the foundation for insight-backed sustainability and office space optimization programs.

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