GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2023

For many travelers, technology long ago supplanted travel agents for the basic booking of flights, hotels, and excursions. But how quickly will artificial intelligence replace humans for trusted travel advice?

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Venture Beast

APRIL 29, 2021

TravelPerk, a business travel management platform that gives companies data and insights into their spending, has raised $160 million. Read More.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 3, 2023

Travel industry players are excited about predictions that AI could add around $1 trillion extra to the global tourism industry by 2025. Marketing companies are also babbling excitedly about AI’s ability to create hyper-personalized trips for travelers. But the travel industry is not new to AI. AI is (merely!)

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2023

(BebopBee Image) The developer behind the match-3 mobile game Travel Crush raised $4 million. BebopBee is entirely focused on Travel Crush , a puzzle adventure and “forever franchise” that stars a girl named Ellie as she explores the world. Former employees at TinyCo, Zynga, and Jam City launched BebopBee in 2014.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2022

With a travel resurgence already well under way, it’s essential for industry organizations to ensure they are offering consumers payment options that are not just convenient, but that also reduce risk and instill confidence with every transaction. Global and domestic credit, debit and prepaid cards. Tools for preventing fraud.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Bob Diachenko, an Elasticsearch database expert, and Comparitech’s cybersecurity research lead, discovered an unsecured database with the information of more than 106 million people who have traveled to Thailand. Data compiled went back to 2011 — it had been gathered for more than 10 years.

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Computer Weekly

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Amex Global Business Travel is investing in modern IT, including cloud analytics, to pivot its business towards serving the traveller in their whole journey

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

New York-based insurance provider Travelers, with 30,000 employees and 2021 revenues of about $35 billion, is in the business of risk. s SVP and chief data & analytics officer, has a crowâ??s s unique about the [chief data officer] role is it sits at the cross-section of data, technology, and analytics,â??

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SecureWorld News

MAY 1, 2022

Travel can involve significant security risks. Organizations of all kinds have a responsibility to keep their employees safe while they're traveling. The security risks business travelers may face. These risks may threaten the health and security of a traveler. What effective travel policies can look like.

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Forrester IT

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Airports and travel companies need to know that the desire to travel may never return to 100%; capturing the market that remains will depend on going above and beyond to provide health safety comfort. Learn how real-time feedback can help.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the travel industry, but Google is trying to help by adding new tools to its travel tools that flag pandemic-related information for users, like local COVID-19 case counts and whether the hotel offers free cancellations.

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CIO Musings

JANUARY 11, 2014

One thing that has changed about travel in the last decade is the amount of technology we take with us. A friend at work asked me for tips on travelling with technology. I don''t travel that much, perhaps a trip every 2-3 months. For me there isn''t that much difference between personal travel and business travel.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2023

A new survey released Thursday from the University of Washington’s Mobility Innovation Center and Commute Seattle reveals travel trends that have taken root three years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The data, collected last fall, is further evidence of the shift in habits that is impacting Seattle’s downtown core.

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CTOvision

MARCH 12, 2019

In our many travels, conferences, speaking engagements, and other interactions with customers, technology vendors, press and others, we seem to often hear the same refrain: “Data is the new oil” as if that’s supposed to mean something profound.

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GeekWire

MAY 6, 2021

Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern said the travel industry remains a “study in contrasts” — citing a rebounding U.S. travel market and strong vacation rentals in beach and other outdoor destinations. Such is life as the CEO of a publicly-traded online travel company. Hotels are full. People are out everywhere.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, a centralized database operated by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that provides key safety information for all air travel nationwide, was back online Wednesday morning after an outage that grounded flights across the country.

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Data Center Knowledge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

One of the last secretive projects in the midwest, "Project Oasis" has come out of stealth as a $200 million data center for global insurance company Travelers Insurance. Site Selection iowa Nebraska project oasis travelers insurance'

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GeekWire

MAY 10, 2023

The conference showed how Expedia Group is using technology for its own purposes, including a ChatGPT-powered travel planning tool that lets users ask questions, and automatically saves the results of their queries for easy booking. The global travel rebound is also lifting its prospects.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 28, 2017

Open wifi networks can compromise your data, and international customs might lead to a cyber-breach. iJET CEO Bruce McIndoe explains the best ways to take technological precautions while traveling.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 4, 2023

Southwest Airline's 2022 holiday travel disaster happened because the airline became a victim of its own success. It failed to realize that the analysts, data and software requirements for maintaining its point-to-point network needed constant upgrading, preferring instead to return profits to shareholders via stock buy backs.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Corporate travel and spend management platform TripActions has raised $275 million at a $7.25 billion valuation. Read More.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The results reflect what CEO Peter Kern called “basically a stabilization” of the global travel market, which has been decimated by COVID-19 lockdowns and travel restrictions. PREVIOUSLY: Expedia Group’s CEO on the future of travel, and why big cities will someday ‘come roaring back’. billion the year before.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Global business travel is clawing its way back to normal after being decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid shift to videoconferencing and virtual events, according to data from the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA). Hit hard by the pandemic, global business travel activity plummeted 53.8%

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ComputerWorld IT Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Global business travel is clawing its way back to normal after being decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid shift to videoconferencing and virtual events, according to data from the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA). Hit hard by the pandemic, global business travel activity plummeted 53.8%

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The Verge

JULY 20, 2021

Three years ago, a startup called Miles launched a free app with the goal of becoming a sort of rewards program for all travel — with an emphasis on clean transportation. I lived in New York City at the time and did a lot of daily walking and subway-riding, with occasional biking and bus travel. Image: Miles.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 11, 2023

While Psyche travels toward the metal-rich asteroid with the same name, NASA will study the feasibility of laser-based digital communication in outer space. The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) project is designed to test how lasers could be employed to greatly speed up data transmission, the agency says, achieving transfer.

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Eric D. Brown

APRIL 5, 2024

I traveled to Hanksville, Utah, in March to photograph the Milky Way. Technology, Data, People. During my time there, the weather didn't cooperate well, and I only had one night of clear skies to do astrophotography. Here's the shot that I got. It isn't 'technically great', but it's pretty good.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 24, 2020

That was Peter Kern, the CEO of Expedia Group, the Seattle-based online travel giant, speaking this week at the GeekWire Summit. On this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, we’re featuring highlights from our conversation with Kern about the future of travel and big cities, and his thoughts on virtual travel.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The pandemic has turned the air travel revenue model on its head. Good airline data and a strong digital backbone are essential for recovery. Read More.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2021

Over the course of nearly two decades, the Seattle travel platform snatched up more than 40 companies with a combined worth of nearly $13 billion. Last week Expedia announced the hiring of Jon Gieselman , Apple’s former head of marketing for services, to help customers make sense of the online travel giant’s tangled product lineup.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 5, 2024

Following the American Express data breach, the company is actively informing customers about the exposure of credit cards in a third-party breach. This breach, separate from any internal data compromise at American Express, targeted a merchant processor responsible for handling American Express Card member data.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 21, 2017

Anyone who has ever had their bag go AWOL while travelling knows that sinking feeling that comes with being told that your luggage is lost. Sadly, lost luggage is one of the perils of modern travel, and one that seems to happen on an all-too-often basis. Fortunately, just as technology.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The overall success of a business is often dependent on its ability to effectively share, transfer and process vast amounts of data. Much of this shared data is sensitive and must be protected wherever it travels on and outside the enterprise network. The best way to accomplish the important task of securing business data is.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 3, 2022

As the pandemic brought significant changes to customer behavior and restrictions on traveling, Dialog Axiata used predictive analytics and a data-driven approach to prioritize network upgrades. A cross-functional team was quickly formed to use data analytics to improve customer experience by deploying upgrades across the country.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2022

Keeping watch on where data travels over the internet is relevant to any business that cares what country might have access to its private information. Exactly where data moves and is stored is tied to the concept of data sovereignty, the idea that data is governed by the laws of the country where it’s located.

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Network World

APRIL 13, 2017

The Travelers insurance company has teamed up with Symantec to give policyholders cyber security assessments and consultation in order to help them manage risks. The self-assessment consists of filling out a 25-question survey and getting a written report of how well their network and data protection stacks up.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2023

Vandana Slatter, a sponsor of the My Health, My Data Act. Photo via Slatter’s office) Washington state lawmakers finalized passage of a bill Monday that provides privacy protections for consumer health data. We must protect the data of Washingtonians and all who travel here. Washington state Rep.

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