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Thynk wants to upgrade hotel stays with a vertical software platform

TechCrunch

Meet Thynk , a new company that wants to build the definite enterprise software solution for the hospitality industry. When it comes to software-as-a-service companies, entrepreneurs choose to address a specific segment. For instance, in the hospitality industry, Amenitiz focuses exclusively on independent hotels and B&Bs.

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Selfbook raises $15M at a $300M valuation in Tiger-led extension to give hotels a way to accept ‘one-click’ payments

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Hotel payment software provider Selfbook has completed a $15 million extension of its Series A financing that values the company at $300 million. Hotels can implement its technology, according to Meniri, “with a single line of code” to improve their booking experience directly on their existing reservation systems.

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

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Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs. It is the brains of everything — our core system.

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AI & the enterprise: protect your data, protect your enterprise value

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For example, employees might inadvertently broadcast corporate secrets by inputting sensitive company information or source code into public-facing AI models and chatbots. The company later estimated losses of $100 million due to the attack. Human error in data loss Human error remains a critical weak link in d a ta loss.

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Metasearch in Hospitality: an Overview of Hotel Search Engines

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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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Sugar raises $2.5M in seed funding to connect apartment residents

TechCrunch

As people began quarantining due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dicko saw an opportunity to help make it easier for people living in apartments and residential communities to “engage with one another in a safe and efficient way.” She said another big differentiator is the ability to integrate into a building’s current hardware or software stack.

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GGV Capital latest to back Workstream’s goal of filling software gap for deskless workers

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These employees are often always in demand due to traditionally high turnover rates, and yet, many still rely on paperwork and videos. The past two years have really shown that there’s a huge gap in software built for this deskless, hourly worker,” Desmond Lim, co-founder and CEO of Workstream, told TechCrunch.” There are 2.7