article thumbnail

Unicorn travel startup Hopper is facing a pandemic-fueled customer service nightmare

TechCrunch

Mobile travel app Hopper has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic as consumers canceled their trips and airlines dropped their flights. Currently, hundreds of Hopper customers are trashing the app in their app store reviews, calling Hopper a scam, threatening legal action and warning others to stay away. covid ##travel ?

Travel 261
article thumbnail

6 investors and founders forecast hockey-stick growth for Edinburgh’s startup scene

TechCrunch

Scotland’s capital Edinburgh boasts a beautiful, hilly landscape, a robust education system and good access to grant funding, public and private investment. Weak in blockchain and consumer. Experiencing influx of new talent due to COVID-19. We’re pretty weak in law tech, Valla’s area. What does it lack?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Avoiding Last-Mile Challenges for Remote Workers

CIO

This needs to be a multidimensional review: Computational requirements Storage requirements (local, remote, and backup) Voice communication requirements Video communication requirements Security requirements Special access requirements (e.g. cellular, air-gapped systems, etc.) About Saadat Malik. IT Leadership, Remote Work

Backup 214
article thumbnail

Improve LLM performance with human and AI feedback on Amazon SageMaker for Amazon Engineering

AWS Machine Learning - AI

The Amazon EU Design and Construction (Amazon D&C) team is the engineering team designing and constructing Amazon warehouses. The team navigates a large volume of documents and locates the right information to make sure the warehouse design meets the highest standards.

article thumbnail

Daily Crunch: Tata Group releases ‘super app’ that bundles 11 consumer services

TechCrunch

However, when public travel systems provider Amadeus saw the writing on the wall seven years ago, the company decided to embark on a journey that would turn out to be arduous, but put it on the road to operating more efficiently. Dyte raised $11 million to make a drop-in software development kit (SDK) to help you with that.

Groups 194
article thumbnail

Expedia Partner Solutions for Travel Agencies: Expedia TAAP, Templates, and EPS Rapid API

Altexsoft

If you’re a mid-size OTA that wants to beef up its inventory, an OTA startup with a great idea that begs for implementation, or maybe an offline travel agency on the hunt for a way to increase agents’ efficiency, the question is the same – where to source the travel data from. Expedia TAAP: booking tools for travel retail agents.

Travel 52
article thumbnail

Finding a New Software Developer Job

Henrik Warne

For the first time ever, I was laid off, and had to find a new software developer job. In my case, we were 17 people let go that day, including 8 developers. Next, I went through my list of companies I would like to work for, and looked to see if they had any open developer roles. Here is what I learnt from the process.