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Alaska Airlines launches investment arm to support goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2040

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Alaska Airlines on Monday announced the launch of Alaska Star Ventures to invest in new aviation technologies as part of the airline’s goal to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040. Diana Birkett Rakow, Alaska’s vice president of public affairs and sustainability (PRNewsfoto/Alaska Airlines).

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Electronic bag tags are ready for take-off: Here’s what we learned on multiple flights with one

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Alaska Airlines has made electronic bag tags available to elite Mileage Plan members, with a broader rollout planned in the first half of this year. Walking into Sea-Tac Airport for a Friday afternoon flight, I glanced smugly at the people huddled around the Alaska Airlines self-serve kiosks to print bag tags. Alaska is the first U.S.

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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.

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Understanding Digital Interactions in Real-Time

CIO Business Intelligence

Because when your application architecture is closely mapped to your business activities (so-called “events”), you produce the kind of real-time data you need to run real-time analytics in a more flexible and scalable way than traditional software architectures. How do businesses manage and take advantage of real-time events?

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A year for gearing up: Aerospace ventures are counting down to big missions in 2024

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Nevertheless, there were plenty of developments worthy of note in the aerospace world, including a milestone for the tech industry: the first launch for Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite program. Starship’s successes will also reassure NASA that SpaceX’s lunar lander program is on track.

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Tech Moves: Adriane Brown joins KKR board; AI2 adds HR exec; Ossia and LevelTen hire CFOs; more

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This is Brown’s second notable board appointment this year after she joined the American Airlines board in March. Montoya is responsible for Equinix’s global cybersecurity risk program. Mobile marketplace OfferUp announced former Booking.com managing director Todd Dunlap as its new CEO. Chris Bright.

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