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What fuels Soltour’s strategy of digitalization and innovation

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Efforts to gain market strength As a tour operator, Soltours short- and medium-term objectives focus on continuing to offer innovative solutions to travel agencies, and all of this with the aim of optimizing agency operations with more agile and personalized tools.

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Taiwan-based FunNow, an instant booking app, raises $15M Series B

TechCrunch

FunNow is a booking app for spontaneous people. For example, in Malaysia, it talked to food and beverage merchants and discovered that customers prefer to pick up food instead of waiting for deliveries, so it added takeaway bookings. Some users, tired of WFH, booked hotel rooms to work. Image Credits: FunNow. “We

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7 signs you may not be a transformational CIO

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Focused on digitization and innovation and closely aligned with lines of business, some 40% of IT leaders surveyed in CIO.com’s State of the CIO Study 2024 characterize themselves as transformational, while a quarter (23%) consider themselves functional: still optimizing, modernizing, and securing existing technology infrastructure. “By

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Fresha raises $100M for its beauty and wellness booking platform and marketplace

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Fresha — a multipurpose commerce tool for independent wellness and beauty businesses such as hair, nail and skin salons, yoga instructors and more, based first and foremost around a completely free subscription platform for those businesses to schedule bookings from customers — has picked up $100 million.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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CIOs contend with gen AI growing pains

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The airliner, which competes against Qatar Airlines, is counting on agentic AI and the LLM to elevate its bookings and expand its share of the growing market, she said, adding that the six-month-old model has attracted 3 million visitors and has handled some bookings, but its value is far more strategic.

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Peek raises $80M as its travel experiences software and marketplace business passes $2B in bookings

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It plans to use the funds to continue expanding its product, hiring more talent and taking Peek to more places, after passing some $2 billion in bookings from some 35 million customers, mostly in North America. Other high-profile past backers include Jack Dorsey, Eric Schmidt and Kayak founder Paul English. Peek was also not immune.

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