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Live-streaming platform BoxCast raises $20M

TechCrunch

And it’s no surprise that 2020 has been a “watershed moment” for the company, as Daily put it, with the company now live streaming millions of events per year — everything from sports to religious services to virtual safaris offered by Sri Lanka’s tourism board. BoxCast dashboard.

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Headless is out of this world, let’s dive in!

Perficient

image: virtual tour of Harvard College , the undergraduate program at Harvard University) Healthcare Hospital systems and buildings are often filled with endless corridors and elevator banks all over the place. image: curated virtual journey into Boston Children’s Hospital ) Tourism A pandemic hits the entire world.

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

Altexsoft

These groups may be made up of employees of a specific company, members of a loyalty program , or other pre-qualified clients. Members of corporate travel programs. This type of closed user group is organized for a specific group of people, such as a school class, sports team, or religious group, traveling together.

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

TechCrunch

The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of Thrones shooting locations, and employment has risen steadily in the city since 2016, according to Northen Ireland’s Department for the Economy.

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8 investors and founders highlight Valencia’s potential as a fintech and cybersecurity hub

TechCrunch

The city appears to be strong in areas such as travel, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, agritech, travel tech, biotech, sports tech, and VR. We have some of the top incubators and accelerator programs in Spain. So to find out what the startup scene in Valencia looks like, we spoke with eight local investors, executives and founders.

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Hot Tips To Create A Location-Based App

Xicom

The repercussions of COVID-19 affect geolocation-based industries like logistics and tourism. These location-based apps can track all outdoor sporting tasks like cycling, running, swimming and more. According to the name, a Geo-fence is a virtual boundary within which an app performs a complex or straightforward pre-programmed action.

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How Bounce beat pandemic disruption and bagged a16z to lead its Series A

TechCrunch

But by summer 2020 there was a temporary unlocking as parts of Europe reopened to tourism — so Bounce focused its efforts on markets like Croatia at that point. And earlier this month it said it would be paying out $3M to its partners “over the next few months” via this program. Travel is also exploding right now.”

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