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TechCrunch+ roundup: Technical due diligence, web3’s promise, how to hire well

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Today, I wouldn’t consider buying a device that couldn’t help me find a restaurant or hotel. 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. After technical due diligence begins, no amount of storytelling can cover the secrets buried in GitHub and Jira. Thanks for reading, Walter Thompson.

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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives

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With stints at Procter & Gamble, HPE and DHL, Jaime González-Peralta landed at Radisson Hotel Group four years ago as CIO for EMEA and then became global CIO in April 2020 — a particularly complex moment due to the paralysis that the pandemic inflicted on the world of travel. We made everything new from scratch.

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How to gain a five star security reputation in hospitality

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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. An accurate data-flow diagram(s) is maintained that meets the following: • Shows all account data flows across systems and networks.

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

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Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. With Amazon taking care of infrastructure, patching, and security, Choice’s 650-member Scottsdale, Ariz.-based

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This West Point grad started a booking system for restaurants, and VCs just funded it

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Though large chains and hotels have the resources to invest in snazzy software , it became apparent to Hutchison, the more he talked about the problem, that independent operators didn’t have an affordable option, so he decided to leave the army and get to work.

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

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According to the survey, the city is strong in sectors such as fintech, agritech, hospitality tech, emerging tech, cybersecurity, SaaS and medtech. We’re strong in cybersecurity and (to an arguably lesser extent) fintech. New developments are popping up all over the city, from student accommodation to hotels and nice apartments.

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SmartRyde, a Japanese online platform for airport transfers, spurs global expansion with Series A

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Sota Kimura, co-founder and CEO of SmartRyde, founded SmartRyde in 2017 after he experienced trouble getting a taxi from the airport to the hotel when he traveled abroad, Kimura told TechCrunch. SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6 SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6