The pandemic had a massive ripple effect on jobs throughout the hospitality industry. Travel restrictions and social distancing brought business and recreational travel to a standstill. The industry has been slow to recover, partly due to Zoom and other teleconferencing services supplanting many forms of...
Here’s a quick way to age yourself — remember your first qwerty keyboard phone? Whether it was a Nokia, a Motorola Razr, now known as a “dumb phone,” or a more upscale Blackberry or Sidekick, aka a “feature phone,” these devices were at one time...
For brick-and-mortar retailers — convenience stores especially — boosting foot traffic is essential. And for some forward-thinking merchants, the way to charge sales and boost basket sizes is to offer a charge in the parking lot. Literally. Earlier this month, 7-Eleven announced 7Charge, billed as...
According to the World Economic Forum 2022 Global Gender Gap report, gender parity is not recovering, and it will take another 132 years to close the global gender gap. While this is a bleak outlook for women, Payal Dalal, senior vice president of social impact,...
Despite years of hype and billions in research and development, people still have difficulty seeing augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) goggles as a viable consumer product. It’s core to the wider discussion about how consumers will (or won’t) want to experience the metaverse,...
Autonomous vehicle firms Goggo Network and Oxbotica have teamed to promote driverless delivery in Europe. The partnership, announced Wednesday (March 22), will combine U.K.-based Oxbotica’s autonomous driving software with Goggo’s middle- and last-mile delivery operations in a range of sectors, including grocery, food delivery and...
Comdata will launch the “next evolution” of its convenience store point-of-sale (POS) solution this spring. The new Comdata CStore POS and payment solution will integrate GK’s cloud and store technology to deliver solutions that are innovative and flexible, the companies said in a Tuesday (March...
Large swaths of the U.S. are still without high-speed broadband internet service at the third anniversary of the pandemic lockdowns, keeping millions from enjoying the digitally connected economy. A prime culprit: utility poles owned by power and legacy telephony providers. Efforts to bring connectivity to...
After a wave of flight cancellations last year, Southwest Airlines is seeking Amazon’s assistance. The tech giant announced Wednesday (March 8) that Southwest had chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its cloud provider to assist the airline’s digital transformation. “Southwest uses their website and app...
