TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Officely is a pivot; the team started back in 2017 with a different focus: hotel room booking. “We just got crushed by COVID. Overnight, we lost all of our customers,” says Shepherd-Cross. Luxury Escapes).

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 3, 2025

While Google isnt disappearing, the search market is about to change enormously with exciting new opportunities in consumer advertising, domain-specific search and infrastructure. These advancements allow companies to build much more powerful products with much less data. Charts courtesy of Theory Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

In a session called “Making Money Move with Embedded Finance,” our panel will talk about how a new breed of finance infrastructure companies have the potential to turn any company into a fintech company. More hotel raffle details here. In May 2022, Unit closed a $100 million round with a $1.2 billion valuation. Book your room today.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

It will center around a sports stadium, and include mixed-use facilities like offices, retail stores, hotels and event venues. The road to smart city infrastructure starts with research. These include a building project called Stadium City in Nagasaki that will open in 2024. The firm currently has $1.5

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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

That the CIO role has become more strategic and business-focused is another factor for green IT efforts targeting power and digital infrastructure, she says. Mike Rawson, CIO of citizenM, is also emphasizing green IT as part of the global hotel chain’s IT strategy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

“At Razorpay, we want to make further strides on the idea of investing in India’s digital future and building an intelligent payment and banking infrastructure for the new-world. Microsoft inked a strategic deal with Indian budget hotel chain Oyo, they confirmed this month.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2021

Cloud kitchens are already meant to reduce the burden of infrastructure on food and beverage brands by providing them with centralized facilities to prepare meals for delivery. Launched by budget hotel startup RedDoorz’s former chief operating officer, DishServe partners with home kitchens instead of renting or buying its own facilities.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Before starting Brightflow in 2019, Bhathal was co-founder of hotel booking site Suiteness. Next up, the company is focused on further automating its fundamentals and scale so that there is more access to forecasting, but also with a human-in-the-loop function providing expertise on top of the infrastructure, Bhathal said.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Being serverless, it allows secure integration and deployment of generative AI capabilities without managing infrastructure. Core benefits of Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Location Service Amazon Bedrock provides capabilities to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI practices.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

million USD) in pre-Series A funding from Rakuten Ventures and Beyond Next Ventures to build a B2B logistics platform for farmers that sell to restaurants, hotels and other F&B (food and beverage) businesses. This week, it announced 150 million JPY (about $1.4 This round brings Secai Marche’s total raised to about $3 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It’s an infrastructure company, meaning that it’s a long-term business. It partners with retailers, malls, hotels and various companies that own parking space to roll out charging stations for anyone looking for a charging station. Like solar panels, it can take 5, 10 or 15 years before a charging station becomes profitable.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

On top of that, Navan — a combination of navigate and avant (or forward) — claims to be the first travel company to integrate OpenAI and ChatGPT APIs across its infrastructure and product set. The company said it has now unified its travel, corporate and expense offerings into “a single super application.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

And the company manages the infrastructure for you, meaning that you don’t have to spin up more servers as your data sets get larger. They want to know if there’s a seat or a hotel room available as quickly as possible. You get charged depending on the number of GBs of data you store and process through Tinybird.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The real estate and infrastructure sectors contribute about 40% of global carbon emissions , and part of solving the climate crisis is fixing how those industries work. It is also used by consulting firms that are serving real estate and infrastructure companies that have set net-zero goals.

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CIO

JANUARY 23, 2023

Jonnala stepped in as CIO at network infrastructure provider CommScope two years ago after more than a dozen years spent at the company in various roles leading business and technology transformation. Strickland is also responsible for Wyndham’s Distribution Services, which oversees and governs the Central Reservation Services platform.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The wholesaler’s portfolio includes from over 170,000 to over 180,000 hotels (numbers from official sources differ) in 185 destination countries. The properties cover all accommodation types, so Hotelbeds partners can deliver to various market segments: Hotels. Boutique hotels. Hotel Booking API. Hotel Content API.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2023

The result was what is now the Palladium Hotel Group, a hotel chain with 10 different brands spread across Spain, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic. At the end of the 1960s, Spanish businessman Abel Matutes had an ambitious dream to bring paradise closer to travelers by offering incredible experiences.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

CEO Jehan Luth says that the new capital will be put toward product research and development and infrastructure growth, as well as toward expanding Banyan’s headcount from 46 employees to 50 by the end of the year. A source familiar with the matter tells TechCrunch that the valuation is in the “mid-$100 million” range.

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CIO

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Truly listening to what the business wants and needs and asking questions while empowering his team to experiment is of paramount importance, agrees Eben Hewitt, CIO of Hyatt Hotels. “My All the infrastructure and tools are “just a baseline of what it means to be a competent IT organization. There are no boxes to be checked.

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CIO

JULY 26, 2023

Digital transformation is key in building Europe’s resilience and sustainability Huawei As a committed partner of digital Europe, Huawei builds innovative ICT infrastructure and works with customers and partners to accelerate the digital transformation of enterprises, aiming to drive economic prosperity and build a sustainable, digital Europe.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Many of the manufacturers in Egypt today do not have the right infrastructure of the supply chain in place to reach merchants. Speaking with TechCrunch, CEO Mahmoud Nouh says Capiter solves problems around reach and insights for suppliers and manufacturers. Capiter partners with local banks in Egypt and the Central Bank to perform this.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Ludwig Schoenack, one of Kyte’s three co-founders, told TechCrunch the startup is pursuing a business travel vertical, wherein customers arriving in a new city might arrange for their rental car to meet them at their Airbnb or hotel. Kyte is also doubling down on longer-term rentals, or rather subscriptions of up to 12 months. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Businesses had traditionally always stayed in hotels. According to the CEO, Dubai was the ideal market for launching Silkhaus because its infrastructure presents one of the most advanced setups for short-term rentals, embodies a progressive government regulation for proptech and welcomes varying demands from different consumer types.

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CIO

JUNE 2, 2023

Expedia Group has more than 21 brands and more than 50,000 B2B partners connecting them with more than 3 million hotel and rental properties and more than 500 airlines and cruise companies, as well as car rental agencies. At this early stage, the ChatGPT feature within Expedia’s app is limited.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

That’s when the founders went back to the idea of solid-state fermentation, looking for a way to do that without needing the millions of dollars to build infrastructure. “I I thought, what if we can get the benefits of the fermentation but without fermentation?” Manchuliantsau said. “We

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Altexsoft

MARCH 24, 2022

Let’s be honest, for many hotels, payment functionality is not a priority. But if you work in the hospitality business, you must have noticed that the way people book and pay for hotels has changed, especially since the start of the pandemic. Hotel payments challenges. These common problems stall many hotels’ transformations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. Fintechs like Paystand + Yaydoo have a huge opportunity to build next-gen payments tech infrastructure from the ground up.”. Today the U.S. Kenyan insurtech Lami raises $3.7M

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CIO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Lock-in has always been there for a long time,” says Eric Norman, head of infrastructure architecture and innovation at IHG Hotels and Resorts, in Alpharetta, Ga. One top IT chief believes the risks are well-established and that CIOs should know how to counter with a variety of strategies to guard against failure.

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CIO

OCTOBER 1, 2024

From smartphones and wearables to IoT devices and cloud infrastructure, the breadth and complexity of our digital ecosystem continues to expand at an unprecedented rate. This rapid pace of technological evolution mirrors the exponential growth of the human population and our insatiable thirst for innovation and convenience.

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. And the opportunities for tech-enabled sustainability solutions are wide ranging. Now is no time for sideline sitting, however.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Australia’s most impactful technology leaders and their teams, along with the country’s leading cybersecurity executives, were honoured at the joint CIO50 and CSO30 Awards at the Shangri-La Hotel on Thursday night. Chief technology and innovation officer for Transport for NSW Kurt Brissett took out the CIO50 top spot.

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 30, 2023

They are a way for travel vendors to offer discounted airfares, hotels, car rentals , and other perks and benefits to certain clients, while also potentially increasing sales and customer loyalty. For example, the Resort Inventory Group, which we’ll cover further, aggregates many membership clubs for hotels to distribute their products.

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Altexsoft

JULY 20, 2020

While the aviation industry gets to enjoy a better way to deliver prime customer experience, hotels remain a few steps back. This is something that happened historically – IATA existed since the dawn of civil aviation , and hotels never had a centralized regulator to keep the industry united.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The first cut is the deepest : Just when Indian hotel chain Oyo thought it was safe to go public, SoftBank slashed its valuation by 73% to $2.7 If the sensors can’t go on the cars, let’s put them on the infrastructure : Seoul Robotics’ unusual approach to autonomous vehicle tech was reported by Kate. Yes, please.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

The market for corporate events is an estimated $600 billion, but most of the spend is currently through hotels and conference centers; Spathios thinks it can bring the untapped supply of unique venues like museums, historic locations and even palaces online for the first time. What it does: Stablecoin payments infrastructure for web3.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Some of Aflorithmic’s current (proof of concept/pilot) customers are using its tools to create audio books for kids, for personalized narration of wellness/nutrition programs and even a robot butler concierge service for hotel guests. ” “We purposefully don’t ride the Deep Fake wave,” he added.

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The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Government colleges receive aid in terms of good infrastructure facilities, special grants, and full financial support in terms of loans, scholarships, interest subsidies, technical assistance, insurance, etc. The government should develop its infrastructure, salary norms, and publications in this field which is the need of the hour.

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