Tag: Technology

Service provider LERETA appoints new CTO 

Financial services company LERETA appointed Mitch Bledsoe to the position of chief technology officer, the company announced on Tuesday.  Bledsoe joined LERETA in 2022 to serve as the senior vice president of enterprise technology. In his new role, Bledsoe will be responsible for the company’s technology innovation, design, infrastructure, application management and data service offerings. Mitch [...]read moreService provider LERETA appoints new CTO 

Dark Matter Technologies names new deputy chief product officer

Dark Matter Technologies, formerly Black Knight Origination Technologies, named Vikas Rao as its deputy chief product officer, the company announced on Tuesday. In his new capacity, Rao will directly report to chief product officer Stephanie Durflinger. His responsibilities will include overseeing enhancements to the Empower loan origination system (LOS) and establishing Dark Matter’s developer community. [...]read moreDark Matter Technologies names new deputy chief product officer

UWM’s Agnes Standowicz on leadership strategy and harnessing technology

The HousingWire award spotlight series highlights the individuals and organizations that have been recognized through our Editors’ Choice Awards. Nominations for HousingWire’s 2024 Women of Influence award are open now through May 31, 2024. Click here to nominate someone. HousingWire’s Women of Influence award has become one of the housing industry’s most prestigious honors, celebrating [...]read moreUWM’s Agnes Standowicz on leadership strategy and harnessing technology

Marketing Technology Tips Companies Can Use To Make Sales

What Does The Marketing Technology Landscape Look Like Today? With the vast number of marketing tools on the market today, you may feel overwhelmed when it comes to promoting your MarTech product. In fact, companies are projected to spend more than $7.4 billion on crafting engaging B2B marketing strategies. MarTech companies with $500+ million in [...]read moreMarketing Technology Tips Companies Can Use To Make Sales

San Francisco Realtors partner with AI startup Sidekick

AI-powered real estate assistant Sidekick unveiled a partnership with the San Francisco Association of Realtors (SFAR) on Monday. The collaboration will allow the region’s 4,000 agents to leverage Sidekick’s integrated datasets and workflows, making SFAR the first association to offer a generative AI assistant to its members. Launched in November 2023, Sidekick features many functionalities, [...]read moreSan Francisco Realtors partner with AI startup Sidekick

The Kendrick-Drake feud shows how technology is changing rap battles

It seems we’re all in agreement: Kendrick Lamar defeated Drake in one of the most engrossing rap battles of the decade. To add insult to injury, Drake also threw himself into legal hot water when he deepfaked the late rapper Tupac. The tension between Lamar and Drake goes back decades, but this latest flare-up began [...]read moreThe Kendrick-Drake feud shows how technology is changing rap battles

Wayve raises $1 billion to take its Tesla-like technology for self-driving to many carmakers

Wayve, a UK-born startup developing a self-learning rather than rule-based system for autonomous driving, has closed a $1.05 billion in Series C funding led by SoftBank Group. This is the UK’s largest AI fundraise ever and sits among the top 20 AI fundraises globally to date. Also participating in the raise was NVIDIA and existing [...]read moreWayve raises $1 billion to take its Tesla-like technology for self-driving to many carmakers

Rocket hires former Thomson Reuters, Intel executive as its first CTO

Rocket Companies, the parent of Rocket Mortgage, announced on Monday that it has hired Shawn Malhotra, a former Thomson Reuters and Intel executive, as the first chief technology officer (CTO) in the company’s history.    Malhotra will oversee, among other areas, the firm’s artificial intelligence (AI) development, data science, product engineering, technology operations and information security. HousingWire reported in early April [...]read moreRocket hires former Thomson Reuters, Intel executive as its first CTO

Americans Are Driving Their Cars To Death In Order To Save Money

Here at Jalopnik, we know there’s nothing wrong with keeping a beloved old beater running for mile after mile, and we regularly celebrate high mileage heroes. Now, it turns out the rest of America is catching onto this way of thinking as the savings of holding onto an old car for longer begin mounting up. [...]read moreAmericans Are Driving Their Cars To Death In Order To Save Money

Import Cars More Likely To Receive Speeding Tickets Than U.S. Brands

Photo: Mark Ralston / AFP (Getty Images) There’s rarely ever data to back up the preconceived notions we all hold about how cars look, like how we’ve all been led to believe that police pull over red cars more often than others. However, the data paints an interesting picture when it does exist. Research shows [...]read moreImport Cars More Likely To Receive Speeding Tickets Than U.S. Brands