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Week of November 16, 2000 |
VIRTUAL REAL: Cushman & Wakefield has launched what it calls "the first web-based, fully integrated, customized commercial real estate portfolio and facilities management solution" under the moniker big-e real estate. The system was developed by Business Integration Group, and, said Cushman Senior Manager Peter R. Harrison, represents "a totally seamless Internet-based solution to real estate management." MORE REAL: Meanwhile, an entity called the International Development Research Council has launched e-CRE, billing it as "a universal web-based platform for the corporate real estate world." According to Vice President Prentice Knight, real estate is "behind other industries. We need to embrace the Internet." At a recent meeting of the IDRC Florida World Congress in Orlando, he cited a market need for what he called "universality and validation" — appropriate standards, guidelines and oversight for business-to-business, or B2B, e-commerce in corporate real estate. E-FREELANCERS: Freelance.com held a launch party this month in the Miami Design District. CEO Alexandre Attal calls his site "an innovative online professional services network that connects pre-screened freelancers with Fortune 1000 and market-leading Internet companies." He says three key trends are changing the workplace — outsourcing, the demand for intellectual capital and the rise of freelancing. The key issue, he says, is not so much a shortage of talent as accessing that talent — hence the need for his service, which matches buyers and sellers for a fixed fee. FLYING PACT: American Airlines and Miami's Viajo.com have announced a pact where American gives Viajo users "access to a special American Airlines section to make reservations and purchase airline tickets, as well as research itineraries and connecting flights," says Peter Vittori, regional sales director for American. SHOPPING POST: A North Miami Beach-based dot-com called My Shopping Center — without the spaces, of course — named Diane Venitelli executive vice president of marketing. The firm, Ms. Venitelli says, "has come out of the chute very fast. In only a matter of months, the company has established a dominant national presence." The company is self-described as a "broadband data and networking service for shopping centers and merchants," offering site designs with B2B capabilities, among other things. DOT-COM LINES: Fiera Inc. announced it has launched fiera.com in Spain in a partnership with Grupo Correo — the dot-com's first entry into the European market.... AT&T Latin America this month announced the launch of domestic and international long-distance communication services in Argentina.... Miami's Gastroenterology Care Center, which employs 12 physicians at 7500 SW 87th Ave., announced the launch of gicarecenter.com to handle questions, renew prescriptions and set appointments.... Dot-coms GoCruiseDirect and Volando — which peddles travel services in Spanish and Portuguese — announced a partnership giving Volando something called a CruisePro network so users can book cruises offered by eight cruise companies. |
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