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Zartico secures $20M to help tourism offices promote local destinations

TechCrunch

Despite representing 10% of the world’s GDP, the tourism industry has been one of the last to embrace big data and analytics. Using it, customers can see where visitors to a location migrate and move at the street level and track the tourism effects on locally owned businesses. social media posts and web pages). or to places.”

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

TechCrunch

As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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Truth Social Inspires A Trip Down SPAC Memory Lane

Crunchbase News

But unlike Truth Social , which had a recent market cap around $7.5 Virgin Galactic We’ll start with Virgin Galactic , the pioneering space tourism company also sometimes credited with launching the modern SPAC age. Thus, its protracted decline was not due to its missing financial projections.

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Do you need another app to discover beautiful places when you travel?

TechCrunch

But Backdrop is not unlike other global social media platforms that allow users to take ephemeral photos, flex their lifestyle on disappearing stories or discover millions of personalized short videos. Social media and travel. Other users review the posts before listing on the platform, either by upvotes or downvotes.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

Koop Technologies (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) — Presenter: Sergey Litvinenko, co-Founder and CEO. “Koop Technologies is an insurance platform for autonomous vehicles and robotics. Before SAIC, she led the Corporate Venture Group at Maxim Integrated, where she led multiple strategic technology acquisitions and venture investments.

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The Unskippable Impressions Of Mobile App In The Travel & Tourism Industry

Xicom

So, to rescue you from this nightmare, the Travel and Tourism industry has stepped ahead by revolutionizing conventional ways with mobile apps. Whether you like it or not, travel and tourism are one of the most burgeoning industries with the dynamic development of mobile apps. How Travel Apps Work. Merchant Model.

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Near acquires the location data company formerly known as UberMedia

TechCrunch

. “As a result, most of the use cases where UM is seeing growth — in tourism, retail, real estate — are in industries struggling due to the pandemic, where they’re using data to figure out, ‘How do we come out of the pandemic?'”

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