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A Vision of Radical Networking Simplicity

CIO

In networking today, complexity reigns. 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. The journey is well underway.

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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

CIO

For IHG Hotels and Resorts, the cloud provides just the right accommodation for business success. Moreover, IHG’s cloud backbone enables it to take advantage of emerging SaaS offerings, such as Speakeasy AI conversational chatbots, and deliver its own IHG Voice Cloud AI service to help guests and reception desk clerks at hundreds of hotels.

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Freshly (un)retired, Gary McGraw takes on machine-learning security (Q&A)

The Parallax

The mirror, built by the CareOS subsidiary of the French tech company Baracoda , offers personalized recommendations guided by Google’s TensorFlow Lite machine-learning algorithm platform. READ MORE ON MACHINE LEARNING. How Facebook fights fake news with machine learning and human insights.

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Metasearch in Hospitality: an Overview of Hotel Search Engines

Altexsoft

In April 2020, the hotel occupancy in the US dropped to its lowest level ever — the bewildering 24.5 The annual average was roughly 44 percent, which means that more than half of hotel rooms were empty during the whole year. This means a hotel is charged every time the ad is clicked and redirection occurs.

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What is predictive analytics? Transforming data into future insights

CIO

Predictive analytics definition Predictive analytics is a category of data analytics aimed at making predictions about future outcomes based on historical data and analytics techniques such as statistical modeling and machine learning. Airlines frequently use predictive analytics to set ticket prices reflecting past travel trends.

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Closed User Groups in Travel: Benefits, Examples, and Best Practices to Enable a CUG Strategy

Altexsoft

They are a way for travel vendors to offer discounted airfares, hotels, car rentals , and other perks and benefits to certain clients, while also potentially increasing sales and customer loyalty. For example, the Resort Inventory Group, which we’ll cover further, aggregates many membership clubs for hotels to distribute their products.

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Hopper raises $170M and partners with Capital One on a new cardholder travel booking portal

TechCrunch

” That pre-COVID transformation that Pichette is referring to is Hopper’s shift from being essentially a machine learning-powered lowest fare finder to what co-founder and CEO Fred Lalonde says is really much more of a fintech company. And so if it has these attributes, then we’re interested.”

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