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Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce

TechCrunch

The fresh cash will be put toward several efforts, CEO and co-founder Frederic Lalonde said in a press release, including supporting Hopper’s new social commerce initiatives. Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch. Image Credits: Hopper.

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Daily Crunch: Kanye West reaches agreement to acquire social media platform Parler

TechCrunch

That, that, that don’t kill me, can only make me stronger ” : Two of our top stories for today centered on the same topic — Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, surprising us all by announcing he was going to buy the conservative social media site Parler. The TechCrunch Top 3. Manish has the basics on the deal.

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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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Guide to Digitizing Hotel Upselling and Cross-Selling: Strategies and Tools

Altexsoft

Upselling and cross-selling provide hotel owners and managers with the ability to drive greater profit from the same guest by timely offering valuable services. This post aims at explaining the key hotel upselling and cross-selling strategies, ways to digitize them effectively, and examples of existing software serving that purpose.

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Travel app S?kr scores $2.25 million to bring campsite inventory into the digital age

TechCrunch

“Just like in the ’90s, if you wanted to book a hotel or travel somewhere, you’d have to call hotels individually. After meeting through social media, where they had become micro-influencers in the van life space, the co-founders decided to build a mobile app for people in the same position. Image Credits: S?kr

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Alloy, Synctera and Unit discuss the future of embedded finance at TC Disrupt

TechCrunch

Make opening a bank account, storing money, receiving a payment card and lending money as easy as opening a social network account. More hotel raffle details here. Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. The promise? Book your room today.

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CIOs Have To Treat Social Media With Care

The Accidental Successful CIO

Hackers can learn a lot from a CIO’s social media Image Credit: Blogtrepreneur Every person with the CIO job knows what social media is. In fact, we all probably have Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media accounts. However, it turns out that there is a downside to social media that we may not be aware of.

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