Thursday, October 3, 2019

China Travels Next Big Market

discusses the quarterly earnings and partnership of company with Ctrip. Darren said that Ctrip will help them bring Chinese customers to their business around the world.

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

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Priceline Darren Huston provides Insights on Third Quarter Profits

Priceline CEO & President shared his insight to strong third quarter profits.  

Darren Huston said that, “We are always fighting the law of large numbers, but the fundamental business is very strong,”

The Future Of Travel

Those who wants to know about the shape of the travel industry of the future, should look to the finalists of the Radical Innovation competition, which is gearing up to announce its winner next month on 16 October 2019. 
 
The yearly competition challenges designers, hoteliers, and students to pioneer compelling ideas in travel. 

The idea behind the award is to challenge the hotel industry to elevate the guest experience by calling for new ideas in design and operations. Since its founding, it has handed over $150,000 to progressive architectural and hospitality-minded thinkers.

This year, the 13th of the competition, the three finalists were selected from over 50 entries, submitted from 20 different countries. 

Fighting it out are Infinite Explorer by SB Architects, San Francisco, Volumetric High-Rise Modular Hotel by Danny Forster & Architecture, New York, Connectic by Cooper Carry, New York.

Monday, September 30, 2019

Darren Huston Visit To UWC Adriatic, Canada

Darren Huston Share his UWC experience and gave a memorable lecture to the College students and came up with an idea for a Booking.com Scholarship at his old College.

While he was CEO of Booking.com alumnus Darren Huston (UWCAD 83–85) visited the College and held a lecture.

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Darren Huston was talking about his life and career he was struck by the fact that his audience comprised so many young travelers from around the world and that all UWC alumni travel too — actually, as UWCers they tend to do so quite extensively!

So — he thought — how about creating a way for the Alumni to give to the College simply by using Booking.com.


Company Plans For International Growth - Darren Huston

Darren Huston, President and CEO focuses on the organic growth discusses the global business of Priceline on CNBC & the plans for international growth of the company.

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Engineer.ai | Human-assisted AI Empowers Independent Tech Product Developers

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Ever since the world got introduced to Artificial Intelligence, it has created a storm in the virtual world with its disruptive impact on businesses. With every software developer looking to leverage the technology, the lack of developmental know how, availability of a proper platform to create an end-to-end application and scalable way to develop software products have halted their steps.
In such a situation, , a human-assisted AI comes in as a savior by making technology accessible to everyone, even those who don’t know how to develop. The startup helps companies build and operate custom-made software by lending an on-demand cloud-based Assembly Line. It recently raised Series A funding of $29.5 million, led by Lakestar and Jungle Ventures.
The funding round also witnessed the participation from DeepCore — Softbank’s AI-focused investment fund. Talking to Entrepreneur India, the Founder and Chief Wizard of Engineer.ai, shared, “We are selling products to our customers that they want to create. Our business model consists of three important pillars: Builder, Builder app insurance called BuilderCare and CloudOps.

A gallery's perspective on the Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale allows the best artists to leave their mark. Lorenzo Fiaschi , founder of the Galleria Continua, says that "artists...