TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Canadian travel startup Hopper has raised a $170 million Series F round, led by Capital One. banks and credit card company is also coming on board as a strategic partner, to launch Capital One Travel, which is the first instantiation of Hopper’s new B2B platform, Hopper Cloud. “Price freeze is a good example.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

VUZ , a social app that allows users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality (XR) and metaverse digital experiences, has raised $20 million in Series B investment. VUZ raises $20 million to scale its immersive social app by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch. Asia, and Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Raven Gao didn’t set up virtual social platform MEW to ride the metaverse wave. He began working on MEW in mid-2019 with a Tencent veteran because he wanted to build a virtual safe haven for socially awkward introverts like himself. Rather than “signup”, MEW calls it “create your traveling file.”

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Altexsoft

JULY 14, 2022

In the last few years (and especially after the pandemic), travel trends have dramatically shifted and multiple studies prove it. TripAdvisor‘s “Travel in 2022: A Look Ahead” Report. Moreover, half of Gen Z respondents said they want to get out of their comfort zone and crave a sense of risk and excitement while traveling.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Social calendar app IRL has been busy building a messaging-based social network, or what founder and CEO Abraham Shafi calls a “WeChat of the West.” As a result, IRL became more accessible because its audience was no longer limited only to those who had time and money to travel to real-world events.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The pandemic has upended many aspects of urban life but perhaps the most visible upheaval is to citydwellers’ social lives, with curfews calling time on traditional night life across much of the Western world and social distancing putting a chilly spin on opportunities for getting together with people outside your usual circle.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

” Three travel startups tell us how they’re responding to the coronavirus crisis. ” Three travel startups tell us how they’re responding to the coronavirus crisis. “The pandemic has been the worst crisis in the history of tourism, but it’s also proven that leisure travel is a fundamental human need.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

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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Existek

JANUARY 31, 2022

Have you thought of how customer preferences are changing the travel market? The short answer is that technology is revolutionizing the way people travel. Following the market tendencies, travel brands definitely understand the need to provide customers with new solutions. Why build a travel app. WHY BUILD A TRAVEL APP?

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 30, 2023

As a travel business, it’s not enough to just offer a variety of travel options to your customers. By creating exclusive travel experiences for a select group of clients, you can increase customer loyalty, repeat purchase rate, and revenue. Travel clubs. Members of corporate travel programs. Group travelers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Finding the signal in the noice of social audio is turning out to be the real challenge. Or trying to eke out travel/food tips (‘Best Vegan Spots Las Vegas’). Or, well, adding to the social audio noise. Why focus on short-form audio as a social media medium? “We raised $3M in late 2020.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In the continuously changing travel industry, data-driven insights are revolutionizing decision-making processes. Beyond its fundamental role in elevating customer experience, travel analytics has a valuable impact on revenue growth and cultivating a competitive edge. Travel data: external and internal sources.

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 19, 2022

The devastating impact of travel on the environment and local communities is enormous. marine litter is up to 40 percent bigger during peak season) are just some of the global problems caused by travel. marine litter is up to 40 percent bigger during peak season) are just some of the global problems caused by travel.

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Altexsoft

JUNE 25, 2022

In 2019, the travel and hospitality industry accounted for a whopping 10.3 Besides, due to the specific nature of the industry with high-value one-off payments, a big number of businesses across the world, and rapid customer consumption of services, the travel and hospitality sector is a huge target for fraud. percent of global GDP.

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Xicom

MAY 15, 2020

“ Travel Makes One Modest You Escape To Find What A Tiny Place You Occupy In The World” Are you far away from travel app development? Well, I have some pretty experiences to share when it comes to your travel business. But travelling comes with so much hassle. So, what if an app comes to your rescue?

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NeverFriday

MARCH 8, 2018

Then there was the desire to look like a jet-setter, traveling to a new location — such as Las Vegas, the Bahamas and Los Angeles — every month for a year. Although she traveled some for work, Calveiro said, “If you break it down, a lot of the travel I was doing in 2016 was strictly for Instagram.”. Check the ROI.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 15, 2021

Last year, the clear path the travel industry once had was swept away. This was largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic uprooting the status quo for both international and domestic travel. This article will explain how email marketing software manages to produce winning campaigns for travel enterprises.

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Altexsoft

MAY 5, 2020

The crisis is hitting the travel industry hard, there’s no doubt about it. In fact, the global revenue for the travel and tourism industry is earning around 34.7 7 actions your travel company can take in the crisis. Take the time to reassess why your company launched in the travel sector in the first place.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 9, 2023

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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Perficient

AUGUST 22, 2023

“I’m not sure what social media content to put out there.” This is a sentiment we hear often from our healthcare clients—most often if they’re (a) overworked/understaffed or (b) only focusing on one or two social channels or content types, possibly because of misguided advice from other consulting agencies. (Or What do they want?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2021

Social media, increased environmentalism and high urbanization were already fueling a boom in popularity. But 2020 was a different animal: After months of shelter-in-place orders, widespread shutdowns and physical distancing, outdoors became the only location for safe socializing. Hiking equipment alone is supposed to reach a $7.4

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2021

Imagine how amazing it would be to get paid to travel or share your love of travel by assisting others with their trips. The Internet and digital technologies have made it possible to build a business around your lifestyle, including travel, from anywhere you can get online. Become a travel photographer.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Rec Room has been around for just five years (launched in 2016 in Seattle), and it has — at least for now — avoided the fast-rise/precipitous fall that has characterized so many other social gaming hits. There are some 12 million rooms on the platform already, Rec Room said.

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Ooda Loop

JANUARY 9, 2024

Of the many events that stand out as noteworthy in online discussions across Chinese social media in 2023, it’s perhaps the rise of ChatGPT that will prove to be the most significant. Although the chatbot made by the US-based OpenAI was officially launched in late 2022, it took until 2023 […]

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Ivan Baidin is head of Travelpayouts , a global integrated affiliate program focused exclusively on travel offers. Ivan Baidin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. During the pandemic, we realized that we were swamped with work and overloaded with information. So we came up with an idea to fix that.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Traditionally, when organizations look to promote one of their team members to a position that requires them to travel, for example, the fact that a woman has children can work against her, because people assume a married woman with children may not be able to travel as frequently as they might need to.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 11, 2024

5: Seek out negative feedback While it’s natural to focus on direct communication from dissatisfied customers or reviewers, I suggest adopting a proactive approach by actively scouting personal social media accounts, relevant channels, groups, communities and even open chats, as many people won’t post their opinion directly.

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Synopsys

MAY 5, 2020

Here are some practical tips for completing tech due diligence, focusing on open source software, when your teams can’t meet, go to the office, or travel. The post How to manage tech due diligence from a social distance appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Software, video and audio streaming, trading services, e-commerce, consumer fintech, gaming and, in some cases, social networking. And on the previously losing but now winning side, we have lodging and travel to start. What’s losing favor? The market has inverted, and startups need to prep for a re-inverted world.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We hope you’ve had a peaceful weekend and that you were able to stay clear of social media for a few days. And, given that those social handles don’t exactly roll off the tongue, we’ll probably go back to linking to our Twitter accounts tomorrow. Evidently, the downturn hasn’t soured investors on the travel industry.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Darren Dunn and Jay Kinghorn experienced this firsthand — Dunn as a sales executive at various travel companies including FarePortal.com and Jay as an associate managing director at Utah’s office of tourism. social media posts and web pages).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

also has integrated with government services such as Mudad for digital payroll and compliance, mandated by the country’s ministry of labor; the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI), and Muqeem, the foreign employee’s data platform. For instance, in Saudi Arabia, palm.hr We want to make palm.hr billion by 2028.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

“Safety of the traveling public is the California DMV’s top priority,” the DMV said in a statement issued Friday evening, adding that it has the right, following the investigation to suspend or revoke testing and/or deployment permits if it determines there’s an unreasonable risk to public safety.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Those cabins sound perfect for socially distanced retreats, with guests checking themselves in, each cabin built with its own fire pit and spaced 50 to 150 feet from the others and there were no common areas. million in Series C funding — first revealed in a regulatory filing and led by travel- and hospitality-focused firm Certares.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

All major social networks including Instagram , TikTok , and Snapchat have their own take on how collaborations should work. This is useful if someone is following a creator posting travel vlogs every few days. The company is also thinking about ways to export tapes to other major social platforms. Image Credits: Along.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

The features — which include things like private profiles, more control over followers and message safety controls — are similar to those introduced on other popular social media platforms with teens, like Instagram. On Pinterest, users ages 16 and older will now be able to opt into either a private or public profile.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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