Tuesday, December 30, 2014

3-D Real Apt. Listings in NYC

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Seeking an apartment? There is 3-D software for that. Halstead Property, a brokerage with 1,200 agents in the New York metropolitan area, is using 3-D software to let apartment seekers take virtual walk-throughs of its listings, the Journal reports. In a sort of Google Street View for real estate, buyers may tour a property online, peer out of windows and check details from kitchen appliances to bathroom fixtures. Halstead says the software will become a feature for many of its Manhattan listings.

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Sunday, December 21, 2014

What could happen in China in 2015? | McKinsey

What could happen in China in 2015? | McKinsey



The cost of technology that substitutes for labor in factories has plummeted, displacing more and more workers. Chinese assembly lines today bear no resemblance to those of a decade ago. The best Chinese private companies are as capital intensive as an equivalent factory in the United States.