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Alima aims to build out Latin America’s perishable foods supply chain

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He explained that restaurants, hotels and catering companies typically have to go to crowded markets, negotiate with several vendors, verify the quality of the products and arrange for transportation — often having to drive hours to pick it up themselves. Alima , a Mexico-based supply chain startup, raised $1.5

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Expedia poised to take flight with generative AI

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Artificial intelligence is poised to disrupt the travel industry, and Expedia CTO Rathi Murthy, who oversees a massive online travel network with 770 million loyalty members and more than 50,000 business partners, believes her company is well positioned to capitalize. AI is a huge enabler for us.

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Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023

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The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection.

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With $3M new funding, Egyptian startup OneOrder sets out on growth drive

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I think Africa has a lot of markets that feel the same pain points that Egypt does,” said OneOrder co-founder and CEO, Tamer Ame r, who co-founded OneOrder with Karim Maurice (CTO), also founder Cube, an online restaurant-reservation service. to help hotels and restaurants buy food supplies in Africa. Vendease gets $3.2M

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CIOs set their agendas to achieve IT’s ultimate balancing act

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Still, CTO Suresh Renganathan has the lofty goal of making TFCU “America’s credit union.” 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 Just listen With more than 460,000 members and $9.7

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Amperity raises $100M on a $1B+ valuation to help company’s build better profiles of their customers

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The startup typically works with large, consumer-focused enterprises along the lines of Starbucks, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Patagonia and some 100 others, helping them to tap and organize their own data troves better to develop better profiles of their customers. So we thought, what if we tried to do that using machine learning?”

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AI comes to expense reports

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Meanwhile, travelers can do things like perform a travel search, solve customer support issues and even recommend an Indian restaurant near their hotel in London, for example. According to Amex, the initial solution will leverage machine learning and AI to automate expense reporting and approvals.” The company raised $5.5

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