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Avoiding a Stay at a Haunted Hotel And Why We Need a Travel App for That

CIO Business Intelligence

Imagine booking a room at a small, charming, off-the-beaten-path hotel on the Hawaiian island of Kauai using a popular mobile travel app, only to discover that the room is… haunted! But what is not commonly known is that this family-owned hotel once thrived as a busy brothel during the City’s wild Barbary Coast days. Then, at 3 A.M.,

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Mastercard will allow banks on its payments network to provide cryptocurrency services

The Verge

Mastercard will let banks on its payments network integrate cryptocurrencies into their products | Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. billion active Mastercards and more than 22,000 banks and financial institutions on its network. The news was first reported by CNBC.

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DevOps The Code To Delivering With Velocity, Quality And Agility

Forrester IT

We have seen this in the taxi industry with Uber [i] , ATOM Bank is revolutionizing banking [ii] and Airbnb the hotel industry. Every business today is under pressure from a startup that is disrupting their traditional market. Read more Categories: ARA Tools. Application Release Automation. Rob Stroud.

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New US CIO appointments, August 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Jason Strle joins Discover as CIO Jason Strle, Discover Discover Discover Financial Services is a digital banking and payment services company that issues the Discover card and operates Discover Global Network, PULSE, and Diners Club International. Strle joins Discover from Wells Fargo and he held previous roles at JP Morgan Chase.

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2022 US CIO 100 winners: Celebrating IT innovation and leadership

CIO Business Intelligence

Accenture Aflac Akin Gump LLP ALE international Align Technology Ally Financial American Red Cross Asian Development Bank Atlantic Health System Avery Dennison Corporation Avnet Inc.

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Zulily co-founders Darrell Cavens and Mark Vadon invest in ID verification tech startup Vouched

GeekWire

Use cases include KYC (know your customer) in banking; employment screening; gig economy hiring; contactless hotel check-in; and more. It also examines text such as addresses. The idea is to provide fraud detection of a person in real-time. Vouched aims to do for ID verification what services like Stripe have done for online payments.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 2, 2023

GeekWire

. … Read More Expedia’s new ChatGPT travel planning tool is a litmus test for the future of AI and humanity For many travelers, technology long ago supplanted travel agents for the basic booking of flights, hotels, and excursions. … Read More . … Read More

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