GeekWire

JULY 19, 2023

(Expedia Group Image) Seattle-based travel giant Expedia Group this week debuted its new unified loyalty program that rewards customers for using its flagship Expedia.com platform, as well as its Hotels.com and Vrbo brands. The program is live in the U.S. There are four tiers; each provides different discounts and other perks.

Travel 95

Travel Programming Groups Hotels 95

Vox

JULY 17, 2024

For one thing, traveling is stressful. The timing is perfect: The TSA recorded an all-time record day for air travel on June 23, with nearly 3 million people screened at the country’s airports as summer vacation season picked up. The implications go way beyond air travel. Many times. There are lots of reasons for that.

Travel 144

Travel Airlines System Data 144

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A new business unit, which also has hubs in Brussels, Frankfurt, Gdansk, Vienna, and Zurich, Digital Hangar was founded in September 2022 with the aim to create the world’s best-connected travel experience, incorporating both in-person and digital services. It really became apparent there was something lacking in our landscape,” he says.

Airlines 325

Airlines Travel Groups SCRUM 325

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

GeekWire Photo / Holly Grambihler) Mobility challenged travelers at the Sea-Tac International Airport have a high-tech new option for getting to their gates: self-driving, electric wheelchairs. “We are pleased with how the program is progressing. Alaska Airlines is testing 10 of the mobility devices at the Seattle-area airport.

Travel 109

Travel Airlines Mobile Programming 109

GeekWire

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Seattle-based online travel giant confirmed Friday morning that it plans to advertise for its Expedia.com and Vrbo brands during the broadcast for Super Bowl LVI on Sunday, Feb. Expedia Group is coming back to the Super Bowl, offering hope to those who yearn to be back on the beach.

Travel 121

Travel Advertising Groups Journal 121

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2022

IBM and AWS have put several mechanisms and programs in place to codify their rich vertical industry expertise and make it easily accessible to customers in critical sectors. The program builds a meaningful partnership between AWS, IBM, and the client to deliver an integrated program. AWS/IBM’s Industry Edge.

IBM 287

IBM Industry Disaster Recovery Healthcare 287

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 30, 2024

This is the case of Alpitour World, one of Italy’s largest travel companies, where gen AI projects have merged with preexisting uses of AI. Another gen AI application winning over CIOs is its knack for coding, according to Alessio Maffei, ICT manager of Milan-based student and family-focused travel company Inter-studioviaggi. “At

Travel 299

Travel Training Government Study 299

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Traditionally, when organizations look to promote one of their team members to a position that requires them to travel, for example, the fact that a woman has children can work against her, because people assume a married woman with children may not be able to travel as frequently as they might need to.

Travel 348

Travel Programming Microsoft Research 348

Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Academics say they’ve discovered a whopping 13 programming errors in 61 separate VPN systems tested recently. The configuration bungles “allowed Internet traffic to travel outside the encrypted connection,” the researchers say. It turns out several of these connections are not secure.

Security 253

Security Travel Internet Study 253

GeekWire

JANUARY 8, 2024

Cabana Photo) Cabana , the Seattle-based startup that rode the pandemic-fueled “vanlife” travel craze to more than $16 million in funding, shut down at the end of 2023 as economic and manufacturing conditions stalled the company’s ability to raise more funding and scale. Cabana founder Scott Kubly. million in 2023.

Travel 126

Travel Hotels Airlines Automotive 126

GeekWire

JULY 21, 2021

The answer appears to be no, if you go by the Federal Aviation Administration’s newly issued guidelines for its commercial space astronaut wings program. But will they all get astronaut wings? Wally Funk gets her astronaut pin pic.twitter.com/piE4MHKXwi. — Alan Boyle (@b0yle) July 20, 2021.

Travel 138

Travel Guidelines Training Transportation 138

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

Those might be your HR policy, your travel policy, compliance documents, your legal documents, that might be in a SharePoint or on a portal.” Lots of legacy code has been written in our programming language called ABAP, and it turns out that usually large language models are not good with ABAP,” Herzig said.

SAP 295

SAP Artificial Intelligence Policies Enterprise 295

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

13 announcement with President Biden of new programs linked to the Cancer Moonshot , launched a year after Beau’s death. The initiative’s first years focused on early-stage cancer research, and the new programs extend the Moonshot’s reach to support efforts such as cancer prevention and patient education.

Programming 117

Programming Research Education Study 117

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

(Orbite Photo) After getting its start in Seattle and testing its business model in France and Florida, a space travel venture called Orbite is ready to start signing up customers for private-sector astronaut training programs. Prices for the five-night suborbital training program start at $49,500 per person.

Training 120

Training Programming Course Industry 120

GeekWire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Orbite Illustration) Orbite Space , a venture that aims to offer down-to-Earth spaceflight training programs on a “try before you fly” basis, is raising more capital amid the company’s preparations for an expansion of operations.

Training 109

Training Programming Travel Financial 109

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 21, 2022

The platform focuses on major industries such as retail, automotive, and travel. On the backend, data also flows to loyalty program platforms (LoyaltyLion, Antavo, smile.io), quiz tools (Jebbit, Survigate), or help desk management (Gladly, Zendesk, Gorgias). Pricing is available from the sales team.

Data 363

Data Open Source SAP Tools 363

GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

She’ll lead product and design teams in her new role at the Seattle-based travel giant. million in August to advance its drug discovery program for hard-to-treat diseases. Her first stint at Expedia was from 2004 to 2008, when she was a director in product management. Talus raised $11.2

Fractional CTO 112

Fractional CTO Microsoft CTO Transportation 112

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

. … Read More A proposed capital gains tax in Seattle draws mixed response from tech leaders and city lawmakers Members of the Seattle City Council’s Select Budget Committee on Wednesday debated a newly proposed 2% capital gains tax to support food and housing programs for the city’s low- and middle-income residents.

CTO 105

CTO Infosys Real Estate Vmware 105

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Jeff Boyd and Glenn Fogel, Priceline: Boyd and Fogel reinvented travel reservations by charging lower commission fees on reservations, but focused on smaller niche markets (inns, B&Bs, and apartments), eventually spawning Booking.com. Training and certification.

Authentication 363

Authentication Training Examples Programming 363

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 19, 2024

Think of all the logistical planning and steps to navigate as you secure various travel arrangements, lodging, meals, etc. This is something the tech industry has seen time and again with robotic process automation, where bots taking their cues from rules-based programming got stuck when a variation presented itself.

Dell 358

Dell System Devops Training 358

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is planning to fly six suborbital space travelers next month, which would mark a first for the company’s New Shepard spaceship. The club’s “Postcards to Space” program has sent thousands of messages from students to space and back on New Shepard.

Travel 122

Travel Nonprofit Video Education 122

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

At that point, I was commuting from Atlanta to Los Angeles every week for Bank of America and didnt want to have to travel for an interview, so I said, Okay, Ill do a video call. About nine months later, she called me and said, I have this opportunity.

Banking 262

Banking Industry Financial Video 262

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Greengarten believes that effort begins with building an Environmental, Social, and Governance program that addresses the unique risks faced by the IT services industry. For Orro, those include carbon emissions, obsolete equipment, data theft, gender diversity, disturbance to natural sites, and ethical sourcing.

Cloud 263

Cloud Vmware Data Center Energy 263

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

“Start with a vision and accompany that vision with leadership,” says Jay Mahanand, CIO of the United Nations World Food Program. Much of the work requires travel to remote regions of the world, and teams need to become operational almost immediately. The best way to learn the language is through training programs.

Cloud 346

Cloud Data Center Development Training 346

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

I had a chance to study programming at school in India, and my mom encouraged me to take up programming. My first job was tutoring in a university programming department, and then I stayed as a research assistant. About 16% of New Zealand’s GDP relies on air travel, whereas in the US, it’s about 4%.

Airlines 245

Airlines Travel Programming Network 245

Network World

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

More on Network World: How to catch a 400lb drone traveling at full speed + To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Travel 150

Travel Programming Network System 150

Network World

DECEMBER 22, 2016

under a visa waiver program are being asked by the Department of Homeland Security for information on their social media accounts, a plan that had drawn criticism from civil rights groups for its potential encroachment on privacy. Visitors to the U.S. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Media 150

Media Social Travel Programming 150

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

The program begins April 12 and will cover aspects of cloud innovation and agility, with Jessica Groopman, founding partner at Kaleido Insights , kicking off the day with a look at three macrotrends reshaping cloud and software innovation. Tinic is among the speakers at CIO’s Future of Cloud Summit , taking place virtually April 12-13.

Cloud 328

Cloud How To CTO Strategy 328

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2024

To reach desired outcomes, the airline had to work on many fronts, such as the initial sponsorship of the decentralizing program, the definition of the strategy, the involvement of key areas, a tactical selection of technology, and creation of hybrid teams between business and IT.

Strategy 288

Strategy Data Airlines Programming 288

Eric D. Brown

APRIL 5, 2024

I traveled to Hanksville, Utah, in March to photograph the Milky Way. This image was made by taking a 2-minute exposure for the foreground and fifteen (15) 13-second exposures for the sky (and these sky images were blended in a program to remove noise). Here’s the shot that I got. GM II lens.

Travel 130

Travel Programming 130

GeekWire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A TSA agent verifies a travelers identity with a Credential Authentication Technology unit that uses facial recognition at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The units go beyond first-generation machines which scan a traveler’s photo ID, confirm the individual is ticketed for travel and detect counterfeit IDs.

Travel 109

Travel Security Airlines Authentication 109

GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

UP.Labs said it will focus on building startups that solve various pain points in consumer aviation travel, including routing, aircraft maintenance, revenue management, guest experiences, and more. The partnership, announced at the UP Summit event in Dallas, plans to deliver its first startup by next year.

Airlines 112

Airlines Programming Transportation Travel 112

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The companies hail from a variety of industries such as e-commerce, travel, and meal delivery. ” Techstars Seattle is running a hybrid-style program for this cohort — founders can work from wherever they are most productive, whether that’s at Startup Hall in Seattle or their home city.

Meeting 141

Meeting Travel Education Programming 141

Eric D. Brown

APRIL 5, 2024

I traveled to Hanksville, Utah, in March to photograph the Milky Way. This image was made by taking a 2-minute exposure for the foreground and fifteen (15) 13-second exposures for the sky (and these sky images were blended in a program to remove noise). Here's the shot that I got. Captured with a Sony A7R IV and a Sony 16-35 f2.8

Travel 130

Travel Programming Data 130

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Ross said that he managed the scientific program for OceanGate, and that a research paper based on data gathered during Titan’s dives was “in development still.” One passenger was hanging upside down, and the other two managed to wedge themselves into the bow end cap.”

Travel 109

Travel Video Programming Research 109

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

In the recent global outage, air travel was affected by problems with reservations and check-in systems. Gerald Johnston , an adjunct research advisor with IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP), founded GJ Technology Consulting, LLC, where he assisted global financial institutions and helped launch a UK startup bank.

Fractional CTO 278

Fractional CTO CTO Hire Banking Disaster Recovery 278

GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Willow Photo) — Long-time Microsoft product and program manager Bert Van Hoof is now CEO of Willow Technology. LinkedIn Photo) — Doulaye Kone is the director of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Program at the Gates Foundation — a newly created position at the global health organization.

Financial 107

Financial Video Microsoft Energy 107