Gizmodo

JUNE 25, 2021

An upgraded FAA operators license now allows Virgin Galactic to include paying customers on its space flights, in what is a major milestone for the company and also the nascent space tourism sector. Read more.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Airbnb is finally answering the call from cities, including Seattle, that want an easier way to interact with the hospitality company and find support and data related to listings. The company has launched City Portal as a resource for governments and tourism organizations, it said Wednesday. and Buffalo, N.Y.,

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

The Boring Company’s test tunnel in Hawthorne, California. Image: The Boring Company. Elon Musk’s Boring Company has completed digging a second tunnel underneath the Las Vegas Convention Center, marking the end of the first phase of the $52.5 million of which has gone to The Boring Company — a sunk cost, according to Hill.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

The launch of satellite internet provider Starlink has been operationally transformative for Journey Beyond, one of Australia’s premier destination tourism companies, and it’s driving a new era of progress and innovation. When Starlink came, the game changed,” explains Madhumita Mazumdar, GM of ICT at Journey Beyond. “We

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

The information technology sector trailed only travel and tourism as the hardest hit industries. While many companies are still welcoming a summer class of interns, they’re adjusting what it takes to ensure a fulfilling experience even though it’s not taking place in person. due to the coronavirus. Albert Kim. Alec Malcolm.

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GeekWire

MARCH 15, 2023

(Greater Seattle Partners Photo) — Rebecca Lovell was named chief operating officer of Greater Seattle Partners , a public-private sector initiative that seeks to attract investment, companies and quality jobs in the Seattle area. — Mike Rea will step down as executive director of E8 Angels , which invests in clean tech companies.

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The Verge

AUGUST 23, 2021

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit, a satellite-launching spinoff of the billionaire founder’s space tourism firm, is going public through a merger with a shell company, the firm announced on Monday. The company will be valued at $3.2 billion and includes an investment from Boeing.

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2021

The company films several Prime Video series in the UK already, including Neil Gaiman adaptations Good Omens and Anansi Boys. It’s not clear exactly where the series will be shot. Amazon is shipping the complex sets it built for the first season over to the UK and is currently booking stages for them, according to Deadline. Author J.R.R.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2024

based travel tech company Steller raised $5 million to launch a new planning feature in its app called “Trips” that combines human experiences with artificial intelligence to help travelers plot their next adventure. the company bought the Steller platform from former Microsoft VP Richard McAniff in 2018. based Pilot.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

Journey Beyond, a part of Hornblower Group, is Australia’s leading experiential tourism group. These challenges forced the company to transition to a modern cloud-based communication platform. As a result, representatives interacting with a customer didn’t know whether the customer had traveled with the company before.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 5, 2024

Also during the pandemic, we completely restructured and created every IT element the company needed: new ERP, purchasing systems, hotel management systems, and HR systems, for example. And we did it not only to be closer to operations, but to take advantage of the potential that Spain offers in human capital within the tourism sector.

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2023

Gold Card: Residents ages 60 and older can save on retail, services, art, entertainment, and tourism, including free passes to the Seattle Aquarium. FLASH Card: Residents ages 18-59 with qualifying disabilities can save on retail, services, art, entertainment, and tourism, including free passes to the Seattle Aquarium.

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GeekWire

JUNE 20, 2023

Scan Design Foundation Photo) Seattle’s famous Fremont Troll and the Seattle Kraken’s blue-haired mascot Buoy are going to get some company this summer when six giant hand-built Nordic troll characters come to Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. A giant troll sculpture in Breckenridge, Colo.,

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2023

Walter will join the company from cloud services giant VMware, where she was most recently a vice president of sales. — Bryce Hein is now chief marketing officer at San Francisco-based computer and network security company Sysdig. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board. Denise Walter. He departed ExtraHop in August.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A scathing essay written by nearly two dozen current and former Blue Origin employees paints a grim picture of work conditions at the company and how the burgeoning space race among billionaires is compromising flight safety. Read more.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The company posted a loss in each quarter of 2020 after three consecutive profitable quarters in 2019. Expedia CEO Peter Kern noted “signs of hope” with vaccine approvals, but rising COVID-19 cases and other travel shutdowns still hurt the company’s business. Revenue dropped 57% to $5.2 per share).

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Vox

JUNE 7, 2021

Eventually, Blue Origin hopes to launch satellites and offer space tourism flights. It was four years later, in 2017, that a photo of Bezos looking particularly muscular at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in 2017 went viral and even became a meme. These 21st-century space companies are in serious competition.

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The Verge

APRIL 4, 2022

Wing, the drone delivery company operated by Google-parent Alphabet, will launch its first commercial service in the US on April 7th. The company’s quadcopters will be available to “tens of thousands” of homes in the suburban towns of Frisco and Little Elm, both of which are part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, the company said.

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GeekWire

MARCH 22, 2021

The mood is all very optimistic as COVID-19 vaccines continue to be administered, large tech companies discuss their plans to reoccupy offices and spring brings a bit of hope after a year of pandemic struggles. In the time since, downtown Seattle has suffered as offices emptied in favor of remote work and tourism and events ground to a halt.

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The Verge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Wisk Aero, the electric air taxi startup, raised $450 million from Boeing in a new funding round that it claims will make it “one of the most well-funded [advanced air mobility] companies in the world.”. Once that happens, the company predicts that it will conduct 14 million flights annually in around 20 major markets around the globe.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The company says that although commonly spoken languages like English, Mandarin, and Spanish are well catered to by current translation tools, roughly 20 percent of the world’s population do not speak languages covered by these systems. Instead, the company stressed the utopian possibilities of universal language translation.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Wing, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, is bringing its drone delivery service to the Texas city, its first densely populated market. The company says it will be utilizing its new operational model, in which small shipping containers parked next to the store act as tiny hangers from which Wing’s drones will be deployed.

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

Announced Tuesday, Countdown is being billed by Netflix as the first documentary series from the streaming company to cover an event in “near real-time.” The company says SpaceX is targeting September 15th for the launch, and if that schedule holds, the fifth episode — a “feature-length finale” — will premiere by the end of the month.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The company is embedding AI into each level of the tech stack it sells to customers, he says. “We We run factories and help companies run them and optimize them” and AI is used to optimize everything from getting more throughput to better quality to preventative maintenance, productivity, and cost optimization, Nardecchia says.

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Vox

JUNE 21, 2023

On board are five passengers, including a French maritime expert, a billionaire British explorer, a British-Pakistani tycoon and his teenaged son, as well as Stockton Rush, the founder and CEO of OceanGate, the company leading the expedition. The company has also become known for leading deep sea tourism trips.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 17, 2021

Blue Origin has filed a suit with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims over NASA’s decision to award a lucrative lunar lander contract to SpaceX. The move is raising eyebrows, given Jeff Bezos’s past remarks about how such lawsuits hinder progress in space. Read more.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In a press release , Honda says it has received approval from Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism to mass-produce Level 3 vehicles. A recent ranking of the leading companies in autonomous technology doesn’t even include the Japanese automaker, which is the sixth largest car company in the world.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Access to the solution and data has provided the Ōita prefecture, private companies, and municipalities with an advanced disaster-response capability. The data is gathered from paper records and advanced technology such as drones, the Internet of Things (IoT), and AI, live and static.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 5, 2015

Commercial companies are seeking technologies to prevent cyber breaches that were once considered only for government use. Escalating vulnerabilities are becoming more apparent within commercial companies; they need protection as much as the government. Roughly 9.8% of breaches were in the banking, credit and financial sector.

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The Verge

MAY 22, 2021

Saturday’s flight, which also carried research payloads for NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, is the latest step toward Virgin Galactic’s goal of a space tourism program. The company has some 600 reservations for tickets on future space flights, which go for around $250,000 each.

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Vox

JUNE 22, 2023

OceanGate, the company that operates the Titan submersible, said that the crew of the sub is dead. The company said in a statement, “We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost.” Who owns and operates the Titan sub?

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2020

Mark Okerstrom is shifting from travel and tourism to trucking, looking to apply his digital commerce expertise to a new marketplace. Convoy is one of a handful of privately-held companies in the Seattle region valued at more than $1 billion, raising $400 million at a $2.7 I hadn’t worked in an earlier stage company before.

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GeekWire

MAY 1, 2021

Space tourism and in-space manufacturing no longer seem as far out as they once did, and Meyerson believes Axiom Space is well-placed to capitalize on the possibilities. ’ There’s only one company out there that has this exclusive contract with NASA to access the node on the ISS, and that’s Axiom Space.”

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GeekWire

JUNE 20, 2023

based OceanGate confirmed in an email that the company’s founder and CEO, Stockton Rush, is “aboard the submersible as a member of the crew.” The company’s routine involves picking up crew members at St. “Well, there are folks who want to do high-end adventure tourism. Everett, Wash.-based

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Vox

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Blue Origin thinks all kinds of companies will want some space in space. The billionaire’s spaceflight company, Blue Origin, has released its proposal for a new, commercial space station called Orbital Reef. SpaceX won that contract earlier this year, prompting Bezos’s company to sue NASA and lobby the Senate to reverse the decision.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

With the help of companies including Sam Adams and Martin Guitars, the three-day trip to space aims to raise $200 million for St. Jared Isaacman, the billionaire founder and CEO of the e-commerce company Ship4Payments, is funding the much-publicized trip. NASA has started to welcome some commercial deals in recent years.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 10, 2020

Companies industries such as travel, tourism, hospitality, and events cannot resume business until social distancing measures are eased, with highly uncertain timelines on these. The argument for a system akin to Universal Basic Income has been massively advanced, and approaches similar to this will gain currency.

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