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Generative AI Startups Attract Investment as Technology Gains Traction Across Industries, Says GlobalData
GlobalData | March 22, 2023
In recent years, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changing technology with immense potential across various industries. Subsequently, generative AI startups are rapidly gaining traction, and venture capital investors are keen to capitalize on their potential, observes GlobalData, a leading data, and analytics company. Pranjali Mujumdar, Disruptive Tech Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “The emergence of ChatGPT served as a pivotal moment for the technology industry, signaling the need for increased innovation and prompting many prominent leaders to expedite the development of their tools. Major tech companies ...
The Outlook for Hospitality, Part 2: How Vendors Are Pivoting to Meet New Industry Demands
Fran Worrall | November 16, 2020
By Fran Worrall In the fall issue of Hospitality Upgrade, we began our four-part series on the outlook for the hospitality industry by asking vendors the following question: What are your thoughts on the future of hotels and the industry in general? Overwhelmingly, respondents were optimistic. Despite the seriousness of the pandemic and its devastating impact on hotels around the globe, most vendors agreed that the industry is resilient and will recover. Some said it would come back even stronger than before. Not surprisingly, most believe that technology will play a key role in the process. In Part 2 of our series, we asked the foll...
The Outlook for Hospitality: Silver Linings in the Midst of Crisis
Fran Worrall | November 2, 2020
Vendors Address The Future of The Industry, Part 1 By Fran Worrall During the past seven months, the hospitality industry has faced the worst crisis in recent history. As COVID-19 has spread around the globe, hotels have been forced to lay off employees, curtail services and in some cases close. At some point, however, the world will regain its equilibrium. Consumers will be eager to travel again. And businesses will want to hold group meetings and conferences. What will the hotel landscape look like? Can anything positive come out of this crisis? We talked with a number of vendors for this multi-part series on the outlook for ho...
HITEC 2015: iRiS Software Systems Unveils Their New Lobby Solution
iRiS Software Systems | June 16, 2015
London, June 10th 2015 - iRiS Software Systems, the leading provider of guest-facing technology for the hospitality industry, has announced its collaboration with Microsoft Corp. to improve its Lobby product solution. Working in conjunction with Microsoft, the solutions provider has reimagined the interactive hotel lobby kiosk application serving as a digital concierge, to deliver a native modern Windows 8.1 solution. The new application will be unveiled at HITEC, the world's largest hospitality technology show, taking place in Austin, TX, from June 15th to June 18th at booth #413. 'Developing our Lobby app on the Microsoft platform has...
