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Adjective:
- (of a plant) Pale and drawn out due to a lack of light.
- Having lost vigor or substance; feeble.
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We like to think the internet has given rise to independent or alternative media outlets, but in fact, the last decade has seen the largest wholesale consolidation of the media industry. William Randolph Hearst is small time compared to today's media oligarchs, where only six companies own 90% of everything you read, watch or listen to... Through Television, Movies, Radio, Music and Newspapers, GE, NewCorp, Disney, Viacom, TimeWarner and CBS don't necessarily have a particularly nefarious agenda (other than to simply make more $), but have unprecedented influence over taste and culture.
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I'm not sure how to take this rather bold and curiously precise statistical claim... While I am similarly dubious as to the accuracy of infographics, and know many are motivated by marketing, swayed by a political agenda, or exist purely as SEO linkbait, how would you actually source this? I mean, isn't 83.74% of all web content flat-out wrong to begin with?
Either way, The Economist's Megan Mcardle looks into the spurious assertions by popular infographics in an interesting article in The Atlantic.
Tired of trying to recycle banal adjectives when trying to write real estate listings? No need to fret! Apartable, a new apartment rental resource, claiming to be "Making the world better for renters," has created a "Broker Babble" generator, allowing you to auto-create copy and descriptions with the click of a button:
Brokers have long since taken descriptive language to absurd heights, and created ads that are purely ridiculous. (Check out this rant about entitled FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DESCRIBE THE APARTMENT NOT THE SCENERY)
Apartable has not publically launched yet, but you may currently sign up for a beta-invite, and I'm looking forward to seeing what this new site offers.
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Zillow® (NASDAQ: Z), the leading real estate information marketplace, today launched the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace shopping experience on AOL® Real Estate and DailyFinance™, providing tools to research, shop for and compare mortgages.
AOL Real Estate and DailyFinance visitors now have easy access to important home financial information, such as mortgage calculators, real-time mortgage rates, and Zillow's innovative mortgage shopping experience, which allows users to compare personalized loan quotes and lender reviews, and connect directly with lenders. Already this year, consumers have submitted nearly 5 million loan requests in Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, receiving an average of 18 customized loan quotes per loan request.
Home and mortgage shoppers can find the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace shopping experience on AOL by visiting:
- AOL Real Estate home page (http://realestate.aol.com/)
- AOL Real Estate listing pages (http://realestate.aol.com/homes-for-sale)
- AOL Real Estate home finance center (http://realestate.aol.com/blog/real-estate-finance/)
- DailyFinance articles (http://www.dailyfinance.com/)
In October, AOL and Zillow announced the partnership to add the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace shopping experience on AOL Real Estate and DailyFinance in 2012.
"We planned to launch this integration next year, but as mortgage rates remain at historic lows consumers are clamoring for quick and useful mortgage information. In less than two months, Zillow and AOL's development teams worked closely together to launch Zillow Mortgage Marketplace on AOL Real Estate and DailyFinance," said Spencer Rascoff, Zillow CEO. "Expanding Zillow Mortgage Marketplace to AOL is an important milestone, and will expose our unique mortgage offering to many more millions of mortgage shoppers."
"Our goal is to provide a suite of best in class financial tools and resources to support our users as they make personal finance and real estate decisions through their life stages," said Jay Kirsch, SVP & GM, AOL Marketplace. "We are thrilled to have Zillow join our team of outstanding partners. Collectively, we are bringing the best of the Web to our AOL users in one comprehensive online destination."
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peoplemovin
migration flows across the world
Almost 216 million people, or 3.15% of the world population, live outside their countries.
Refugees and Asylum
Refugees and asylum seekers made up 16.3 million, or 8%, of international migrants in 2010. The Middle East and North Africa region had the largest share of refugees and asylum seekers among immigrants (65%), followed by South Asia (20%), Sub-Saharan Africa (17%), and East Asia and Pacific (8.8%).
MRI Continues to Expand Multifamily Offering Portfolio with Premier Online Leasing Provider
December 21, 2011 – Cleveland, OH – MRI Software LLC, a leading developer of innovative real estate management and investment software solutions for the global real estate industry, announced today that it has acquired Realty DataTrust Corporation, the holding company for VaultWare. Through this acquisition, MRI expands its portfolio of market-leading offerings in property management and accounting by adding a best-of-breed solution in online leasing.
VaultWare is the leading solution for consumer-focused apartment marketing and leasing for the multifamily market. The software helps property managers reach and communicate with apartment hunters online, pre-qualify prospects, and convert applicants into tenants. Additionally, applicants can check availability of apartment units and reserve specific units online, which streamlines the apartment search and leasing process. VaultWare’s versatile mobile solutions not only support mobile device compatible websites, but also enable property leasing staff to access inventory, property photos, videos, and site plans from an Apple iPad while giving tours of a property. In addition, VaultWare offers vacancy and rental rate data to apartment owners, marketing executives, and apartment brokers for business decisions. In the past year, approximately 15 million unique apartment availability inquiries were made using the VaultWare solution.
“I am thrilled to welcome VaultWare and its valued customers to the MRI Software family,” said David Post, Chief Executive Officer of MRI Software. “This acquisition will extend and strengthen our multifamily product line and will allow MRI to provide the strongest tenant lifecycle management solution on the market.”
The new, combined entity will provide both MRI and VaultWare customers with many advantages. The acquisition will provide MRI’s customers with a complete, fully automated lease management solution that will be tightly integrated into MRI’s property management and accounting systems. VaultWare and its clients will benefit from MRI’s world-class client support and professional services capabilities, award-winning SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) environment, and the additional product investments possible with a larger organization. As a part of a leading software provider, VaultWare’s clients will now be able to take advantage of an expanded set of software products and related services.
Mike Mueller, Chief Executive Officer of VaultWare, commented, “The marriage of VaultWare to MRI Software completes a big part of the vision I set out for our industry 17 years ago. The rental prospect now has an end-to-end solution, combining our industry-leading reservations system and marketing tools with the superior back-end resident functionality of the MRI property management and accounting package.”
About MRI Software
MRI offers business management software solutions to the global property management and investment industries as well as to corporate real estate managers. As a leading provider of real estate enterprise software applications and hosted solutions, MRI serves the global multifamily and commercial property industries, helping them improve their bottom line and maximize their returns on their diverse business portfolios. MRI leverages its 40 years in business to develop long-term successful relationships with its clients. For more information, please visit www.mrisoftware.com.
About VaultWare ™
VaultWare provides consumer-centric apartment marketing and leasing solutions focused on delivering an ideal online shopping experience that results in streamlined operations, highly qualified leads and more leases. Since 2002, VaultWare has been inventing and pioneering solutions that facilitate online renter behavior, leasing activities and convenience for both renters and leasing professionals. These solutions include the multifamily industry’s preferred apartment availability and reservation system, industry-focused desktop and mobile websites, the Leasing TabletTM touchscreen tablet leasing app and Market Comps, the only automated market survey solution with weekly pricing updates. Over 190 companies, from small property management companies to some of the largest real estate investment trusts, use VaultWare to help them effectively market their properties and efficiently lease their apartments. To learn more about VaultWare, visit the company’s website at www.VaultWare.com.
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