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WeTravel books $27M to build fintech and more for bespoke group travel

TechCrunch

Originally, Koeppel and his two co-founders Garib Mehdiyev (CTO) and Zaky Prabowo (CMO) had moved out from Azerbaijan, Indonesia, and Switzerland to the Bay Area to start the business, only to find it impossible to navigate the visa waters to bring engineers and other technical talent over, too. It becomes about fund management.

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Tour Operator Software: Itinerary Creator, Booking Engine, and Other Handy Technologies

Altexsoft

Often, the tour operator functions as a wholesaler, buying tickets, hotel rooms, and other travel products in bulk at discounted rates, combining them, and selling those packages in significant quantities directly or indirectly. Besides, a tour operator can own some of the package components, for example, run an airline or hotel.

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Technical Feasibility in Software Engineering: Things to Consider Before Development Starts

Altexsoft

The authorities admitted that the previous 2024 deadline for human landing “ was not grounded on technical feasibility.”. Technical feasibility inspects whether software can be built at all with available tools and experts. In this article, we’ll concentrate on the technical side of feasibility that is our immediate area of expertise.

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Smart Hotel Infrastructure: How to Adopt IoT in Hospitality

Altexsoft

Every now and then, a big hotel brand introduces its own take on the “hotel room of the future”. The Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning that are powering smart hotel applications are accessible to everyone bold enough to try. What is a smart hotel? But big ideas don’t have to come from big brands.

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What’s next for the internet in Afghanistan?

Kentik

Will it also end a period of development of the domestic internet in Afghanistan? Growth of Afghan domestic internet. The fragmented nature of the country’s internet, driven by its austere mountainous geography, meant that shutting down service in Afghanistan would require more than a single kill switch. As the last U.S.

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Data Collection for Machine Learning: Steps, Methods, and Best Practices

Altexsoft

They track people’s behavior on the Internet, initiate surveys, monitor feedback, listen to signals from smart devices, derive meaningful words from emails, and take other steps to amass facts and figures that will help them make business decisions. To reap accurate results, it’s advised to gather data on sales for at least two years.

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New sexual-assault allegations against ‘phone phreaker’ John Draper

The Parallax

He invited in Jay, who was still hoping to discuss technical topics in-depth. ”—Leigh Honeywell, adviser, Ada Initiative. government, then invites him to a private space, often a hotel room, for “exercises” or “energy work.” I’m totally unconvinced that they could have been unaware of him being a problem.”—Leigh