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Interview with BOOM co-founder Jacopo Benedetti 23 November 2018 Gordana Davila Launched in early 2018, Milano-based  BOOM  Image Studio is a Prop Tech marketplace connecting professional photographers with businesses worldwide. We caught up with its co-founder Jacopo Benedetti at the recent Property Portal Watch Conference in Madrid 2018. When asked what prompted the conception of BOOM Image Studio, Benedetti commented: “When we buy a meal or a house we are first attracted buy by their image representation – usually a photograph. So having a quality image is critical and crucial for a lot of all companies which who want to boost their online sales." Although Benedetti’s background as a biomedical engineer has little to do with photography, he has always been fascinated by the eyes and the science of the human brain, which come together in Artificial Intelligence and the development of BOOM Image Studio sof...

Erik Backer, Co-Founder, and CEO of Portal.chat 26 November 2018 Gordana Davila Recently we caught up with Erik Backer, Co-Founder, and CEO of  Portal.chat  at the 24th Property Portal Watch Conference in Madrid. The decade-old Netherlands-based Portal.chat offers online real estate sites an instant messaging app that also supports live video and audio chat.  “We have a plug and play solution that allows real estate classified sites and marketplaces, anywhere in the world, to offer a live chat solution between consumers and the listings owners or between the advertisers (the agents) and the real estate site. “In the past 18 months, we have noticed that there has been a significant increase in the use of chat and it can no longer be ignored as a communication channel,” stated Backer. He also added that the use of chat is generational with the younger generations using chat as their prime method of communication with so...