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Hotel Engine raises $65M at a $1.3B valuation as corporate travel rebounds

TechCrunch

Further evidence that travel is rebounding lies in the number of people staying in hotels, and the money going into startups that serve the industry as well as travelers. Hotel Engine is the latest such startup, having just raised $65 million in a Series B round at a $1.3 Image Credits: CEO and Founder Elia Wallen / Hotel Engine.

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Opendoor alums raise $7.75M for Kindred, a home-swapping network it says makes travel ‘dramatically more affordable’

TechCrunch

Or you could run your home like a hotel and put it on Airbnb to finance your travel. Kindred’s members-only model works by creating a network for exchanging homes. Kindred’s members-only model works by creating a network for exchanging homes. And the network is invite-only. There is no minimum or maximum stay.

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Suspect a hidden camera in your Airbnb or hotel? Here’s how to tell

The Parallax

The problem of surreptitious guest surveillance isn’t limited to home rental organizations, of course: A hotel chain was caught spying on more than 1,600 guests across 10 South Korean cities in March. First, she advises, scan the wireless network of the guest home where you’re staying. “A Scanning Wi-Fi easier than it sounds.

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

TechCrunch

He claims one of the company’s major differentiators is that its network obtains data directly from first-party sources, such as merchants, and doesn’t collect personal information — addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and the like — “unless absolutely necessary” to deliver a service.

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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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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

CIO

For IHG Hotels and Resorts, the cloud provides just the right accommodation for business success. Moreover, IHG’s cloud backbone enables it to take advantage of emerging SaaS offerings, such as Speakeasy AI conversational chatbots, and deliver its own IHG Voice Cloud AI service to help guests and reception desk clerks at hundreds of hotels.

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A Vision of Radical Networking Simplicity

CIO

In networking today, complexity reigns. Count them: the home Wi-Fi, the ISP, the Internet, a Domain Name System (DNS) provider, a content delivery network (CDN), applications distributed among multiple providers in multiple clouds, credit authentication companies, a private customer information database. The journey is well underway.

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