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AHA Taxis appoints ex-Co-founders at senior strategic roles
AHA Taxis has roped in two senior professionals, Shailly Tyagi, earlier co-founder at markNmove and Ghanendra Singh, earlier co-founder at LogiXir to its team. The online aggregator of outstation cabs…
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SITA exploring blockchain technology to authenticate travellers at airport
SITA and ShoCard are planning to change how the identification of travellers is done at airports. To do so, they are looking at ways to store the ID securely on…
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Odigo Travel returns to Hong Kong for Asia’s Top Tech Conference
RISE is in the fifth year of its existence and it’s an upcoming hotbed for disruptors and innovators across Asia. The success of this tech conference is quite dependable on…
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Google reimagines ads for the mobile first world with advertising on Google Maps
Google Maps sits right on top of the app launcher on my phone among the most used apps and certainly there are many others like me. A large number of…
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Uber and Toyota enter into a strategic alliance to explore possibilities in the ridesharing segment
Uber has partnered with Toyota for a strategic investment and an auto leasing deal. The ridesharing company waged a whole new level of war in the world. The company is…
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nuTonomy to bring self driving cars to Singapore by 2018
Self-driving taxis are taking the commuting sector by storm. Otto offered autonomous technology for trucks lately and following it was nuTonomy, an MIT spinoff which recently got funded $16million for…
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Here is why travel brands might not like the new Google Assistant
TripAdvisor Instant, the feature when it was being rolled out appeared very promising, and it indeed is. The fight is to simplify the customer experience and just like any other…
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Waverly Labs is all set to change the communication game via Pilot; no strings attached
The world without language barriers would be a traveller’s paradise. People would roam freely amongst strangers who would be more approachable and easy to communicate with. The essence of one…
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The fight for drone photography is about to get intense
DJI is the name to watch out for when it comes to drones. They have released all sorts of drones over the years and are highly preferred by professionals and…
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Carzonrent plans revenue expansion on a big scale in coming 4 years
Carzonrent, the car rental giant and a leader in $3billion B2B car rental sector, is planning a drastic revenue expansion drive on the back of significant investment in new technology.…
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Should travel brands start exploring chatbots immediately?
Technology is evolving at an incredible pace. It was only a couple of years back that mobile apps for making travel bookings were an in-thing and all the major OTAs…
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get4x adds transparency to the process of foreign exchange
Every foreign trip has one crucial bit, foreign exchange. People who don’t travel very frequently are often unaware on how to go on about it. The lack of information means…
Akshay Sharma
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