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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO Business Intelligence

Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight. Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

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Averting turbulence in the air

CIO Business Intelligence

The diversification of payment methods and gradual increase in the volume of online transactions have cast a spotlight on the need for payment security compliance within the airline industry. Understanding the business of the airline industry As previously mentioned, the revenue streams are becoming diversified in the airline sector.

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Delta takes off with modernized blend of mainframes and cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

When it comes to IT, Delta Airlines is climbing higher into the clouds even as it keeps its footing on solid ground. In partnership with AWS, the airlines started migrating many front-end applications and distributed applications that “marry” themselves well to the cloud while retaining traditional back-end workloads on the mainframe. “The

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Amazon, Microsoft, Breakthrough Energy share climate news as ‘Climate Week’ kicks off

GeekWire

The program is pursuing public-private partnerships to develop technology to cut carbon emissions. . “This is the decade of action and those of us who can afford to move faster and go further, should,” said Lucas Joppa, Microsoft’s chief environmental officer, in a blog post announcing the news.

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This new Seattle VC firm raised a $10M fund to back women-led startups

GeekWire

The Graham & Walker team, from left to right: Amanda Eldridge, vice president of business development; Rohre Titcomb, COO; Leslie Feinzaig, founder & managing director; Es Famojure, program manager; and Divya Kakkad, vice president of marketing. Graham & Walker Photos).

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Tech Moves: Highspot adds executives; Blue Origin vets depart; Disney hires former Microsoft exec

GeekWire

Before Red Hat, Whitehurst served as COO of Delta Airlines. Charania spent five years at Blue Origin, working most recently on its Blue Moon lunar lander program. Following Karman Systems’s acquisition of Systima, Taylor Banks is now CFO of Karman Missile and Space Systems. -based Tanium’s board of directors.

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COP26 updates: Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy, Gates Foundation and Amazon tout climate efforts

GeekWire

Gates’ Breakthrough Energy runs multiple programs, including an investment initiative called Breakthrough Energy Ventures that has raised more than $2 billion and made investments in 80 companies across 11 countries. ” The program’s public partners include the United Kingdom and U.S. Catalyst has secured $1.5

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