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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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TSA checkpoints will start supporting Apple Wallet IDs in February

The Verge

At WWDC 2021 , Apple announced its plans to expand Apple Wallet to cover conventional ID cards like state drivers’ licenses, which are encrypted and stored in the secure enclave as part of the process. The new system also supports hotel keys and was the subject of a partnership with Hyatt earlier this month.

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Now Apple’s iPhone car key will unlock certain 2022 Genesis and Kia models

The Verge

Today, Apple announced that users in Arizona can use their Wallet to carry their driver’s license or state ID and has plans to expand this feature to a number of other states in the near future. Apple also lets users staying in select Hyatt hotels unlock their rooms with a digitally-stored key.

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Disney inks a huge Sony deal to bring Spider-Man and other films to Disney Plus and Hulu

The Verge

Disney and Sony Pictures have signed a multi-year “content licensing agreement” that will bring new Sony theatrical releases, starting with its 2022 films, to Disney-owned platforms. Other Sony Pictures properties, such as Jumanji and Hotel Transylvania , are also included in the deal, according to a press release.

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

GeekWire

He isn’t a licensed electrician. ” Patel (top left) grew up in Alabama, where his parents ran a hotel and the family lived in an adjacent apartment. They were engineers, but ended up managing a hotel. All six will be recognized this week at the GeekWire Gala on Dec. Read other profiles here. ” 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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