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Redfin Introduces New Instant Notifications in Apple Safari OS X Mavericks
Today Apple announced that OS X® Mavericks, the company’s 10th major operating system, would be available to download for free, and Redfin already has a brand new feature for Safari ® users!
The End of Search: Introducing Redfin Matchmaker
Finding what you’re looking for is easy. Finding what you never knew you wanted is divine. This is especially true in real estate: we swoon for
Vote Today! Send Redfin to the 2014 SXSW Interactive Festival
Each March tens of thousands of tech fans descend on Austin for the SXSW Interactive Festival (SXSW). Sessions at this annual conference explore a host of topics from
Redfin Launches Price Whisperer to Ask Buyers What Your Home is Worth
There’s no arguing with people about what their home is worth. Last winter, I tried convincing a neighbor who has long wanted to move that
The Perfect Portrait of Redfin's Culture
Every afternoon at 2:00, Redfin’s engineers and product managers gather for a set of push-ups, sit-ups, planks, crunches and burpees. Last Thursday, our president of
The Perfect Portrait of Redfin’s Culture
Every afternoon at 2:00, Redfin’s engineers and product managers gather for a set of push-ups, sit-ups, planks, crunches and burpees. Last Thursday, our president of
DeeJayOh Argues that the Problem is Still Inventory, not Demand
Every month, Redfin publishes a newsletter about real estate prices out to a few hundred thousand people. A few hundred write back. The tone of
Tracey Foley
A Boston-area Redfin field agent was arrested today by the FBI on charges of being a Russian spy. In her job application, she identified herself
The Rise of the Quants
My favorite anecdote in Michael Lewis’s The Big Short is about one of the first people to make big bets against mortgage bonds, a Deutsche
What the Government Could Really Do to Support Entrepreneurs
Innovation and entrepreneurship are becoming my two least-favorite words, mostly because they are being appropriated in ways that are neither innovative nor entrepreneurial. Like in
Jeff Hammerbacher on Hadoop, Facebook and a Surprising Bit About Microsoft
As part of our engineer-to-engineer series of technical talks, Cloudera co-founder Jeff “The Hammer” Hammerbacher visited Redfin’s San Francisco office last week to explain why
Engineer-to-Engineer: Evolving a New Analytical Platform with Hadoop
In the second installment of our San Francisco series of engineer-to-engineer lectures, Jeff Hammerbacher described the challenges of building data-intensive, distributed applications and how using
