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Brex takes a swipe at Concur with an expansion into travel

TechCrunch

Part of the aim of the new offering is to apply to travel expenses the budgeting capabilities that Empower has, Dubugras said. Sometimes companies have the perception that the best way to reduce travel costs is to get people to get cheaper flights or cheaper hotels and make two stops on the way to two places,” he said. “We

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Metasearch in Hospitality: an Overview of Hotel Search Engines

Altexsoft

In April 2020, the hotel occupancy in the US dropped to its lowest level ever — the bewildering 24.5 The annual average was roughly 44 percent, which means that more than half of hotel rooms were empty during the whole year. This means a hotel is charged every time the ad is clicked and redirection occurs.

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SoftBank-backed Oyo files for $1.16 billion IPO

TechCrunch

The eight-year-old Indian budget hotel giant has filed the paperwork (PDF) with the local market regulator for an initial public offering, in which it is seeking to raise about $1.16 Oyo has also streamlined its relationship with hotels in recent quarters. Oyo is ready to explore the public markets.

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Guide to Digitizing Hotel Upselling and Cross-Selling: Strategies and Tools

Altexsoft

Upselling and cross-selling provide hotel owners and managers with the ability to drive greater profit from the same guest by timely offering valuable services. This post aims at explaining the key hotel upselling and cross-selling strategies, ways to digitize them effectively, and examples of existing software serving that purpose.

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Sun Country enhances customer experience with IT

CIO

In the past, Sun would hand out vouchers for transportation and hotel rooms to affected travelers standing in long lines at the gate. You’re standing in line and getting physical pieces of paper to get a food voucher or waiting in line for a Sun employee to book your hotel,” he says of the old process. Now it’s all self-service.

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Banyan raises $43M to grow its network of item-level purchase data

TechCrunch

fraud prevention, loyalty programs and card-linked offers). Banyan maintains a database of “SKU-level” data and a platform that leverages the database to enable companies to use purchase data in various ways (e.g.,

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The Best Developer Conferences of 2022

Dzone - DevOps

They aren’t just an excuse to spend your T&E budget, stay in a new hotel and see some bands that are over the hill. Between learning the actual skills of programming and the actual work of b uilding, leading and creating teams of developers, there is a massive skills gap.