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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO Business Intelligence

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs. It is the brains of everything — our core system.

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Part apartment, part hotel, Sonder moves into Seattle with its tech-enabled hospitality option

GeekWire

The San Francisco-based startup, which is part hotel and part apartment-style vacation rental, is now offering units at Solis , a modern development located at 1300 E. “Unlike peer-to-peer homeshare platforms, Sonder leases, licenses and manages every space from booking to checkout,” she added. (Sonder Photo).

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Uncommon Thinkers: UW prof and entrepreneur Shwetak Patel has a rare ‘creative brilliance’

GeekWire

He isn’t a licensed electrician. But he is a self-described “naive innovator” — a quality that helps him develop out-of-the-box ideas that turn into successful startups. ” Patel (top left) grew up in Alabama, where his parents ran a hotel and the family lived in an adjacent apartment. ” he said.

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

GeekWire

Its software analyzes images of photo identity documents including passports and driver’s licenses. Use cases include KYC (know your customer) in banking; employment screening; gig economy hiring; contactless hotel check-in; and more. The technology compares a user’s selfie to confirm identity. It also examines text such as addresses.

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First glimpse of Amazon’s new robotaxi: Zoox autonomous vehicle spotted during video shoot

GeekWire

The car was photographed outside the Fairmont San Francisco hotel this weekend as crews captured footage. They sported the “ZOOX” logo and license plate, and the “push me, pull you” configuration expected to be a signature element of the Zoox design. 14, as you can see in the video above. Looks like 2021 to me!

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The ad industry is going all-in on AI

Vox

Olivier Anrigo/Getty Images for TikTok The Carlton Hotel where TikTok had its press preview on June 19, 2023, in Cannes, France. For a week in June, the developing technology was the talk of the beach in the south of France. Luckily for those looking for a vibe shift, AI had officially entered the chat. AI is not new.

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Cloud, Mobile, Social and Cyber: 2015 Predictions That Will Rock The World (AGAIN!)

Cloud Musings

They will insist on the use of more agile commodity IT services in the development of their custom systems of record. Local licensing of taxis, hotels and similar businesses will implode under the weight of digital transformation.

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