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How to gain a five star security reputation in hospitality

CIO

Achieving and sustaining compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a daunting challenge for hotels because they handle many complex payment business cases. In the hospitality industry, hotels are either corporate or franchise entities. Many hotels use Opera PMS, Sihot PMS or some Cloud PMS.

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Smart Hotel Trends for Next Decade: From Robots to Digital Detox

Altexsoft

In this Christmas post, we’ll look into the idea of smart hotels, find out which cutting edge innovations are behind it, and sneak a glance at some of the hospitality industry tech pioneers. What does a smart hotel mean for a guest? The hotel app can be your virtual concierge and provide all sorts of assistance. Watch the news?

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China’s draft measures demand ‘individual approval’ for facial recognition use

TechCrunch

The technology has been extensively employed in both the public and private sectors, ranging from facial scans used to authenticate payments in supermarkets to identity verification procedures at airport boarding gates — the latter an increasingly common practice not only in China but also across the U.S.

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Backed by Accel, Minoan Experience is creating a new category of e-commerce called ‘native retail’

TechCrunch

“Then I sort of had this funny realization,” Hostovsky said, “’Huh… brands are spending billions of dollars on Facebook and Google ads just trying to get their products in front of consumers and here we are having an authentic experience with these products enough to feel inspired to buy it when we leave.”.

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Daily Crunch: After filing for bankruptcy, crypto lender Voyager Digital says it will ‘maintain operations’

TechCrunch

It seems that Bolt and Authentic Brands Group, Forever 21’s parent company, have kissed and made up. Authentic was initially suing Bolt with claims that Bolt had not delivered the one-click checkout technology that was promised, which resulted in the company missing out on some $150 million in sales. for 1 year, Ingrid writes.

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A Vision of Radical Networking Simplicity

CIO

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.

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Pintarnya is building a super app for Indonesia’s blue collar workers

TechCrunch

Pintarnya focuses on the food and beverage, hotel and retail sectors, now reopening after COVID lockdowns, and logistics. It also verifies job listings’ authenticity to avoid scams and highlights verified job posts using green shield markers.

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