đź’µThis $1B hotel tech startup is changing travel forever
Lighthouse just raised $370M in funding, skyrocketing its valuation past $1B. The London-based company uses AI to crunch massive amounts of travel data, giving hotels like Radisson and Holiday Inn the tools to outshine competitors. With plans to expand and maybe even acquire new businesses, Lighthouse is setting the stage for smarter, more personalized hospitality experiences.
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đź’µThis $1B hotel tech startup is changing travel forever
Lighthouse just raised $370M in funding, skyrocketing its valuation past $1B. The London-based company uses AI to crunch massive amounts of travel data, giving hotels like Radisson and Holiday Inn the tools to outshine competitors. With plans to expand and maybe even acquire new businesses, Lighthouse is setting the stage for smarter, more personalized hospitality experiences.
🤔 What kind of data hotels collect about us? Share your thoughts in the comments
WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. Telegram was founded in 2013 by two Russian brothers, Nikolai and Pavel Durov. The Security Service of Ukraine said in a tweet that it was able to effectively target Russian convoys near Kyiv because of messages sent to an official Telegram bot account called "STOP Russian War." On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations.
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