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Grab Notches $200M Investment From Booking Holdings

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based Booking Holdings amid a strategic partnership. With the tie-up, users of Booking Holdings’ apps will be able to call for Grab vehicles, while users of Grab’s app will able to book travel services, Reuters reported. The company manages sites such as Priceline.com, KAYAK and Bookings.com.

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Uber Inks First Deal To Manage Public Transit

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Uber — or Uber’s software, to be exact — will soon be managing public transportation for Marin County in the San Francisco Bay area, the Financial Times (FT) reported. Uber has inked a deal with county officials under which residents of Marin, population 250,000, will be able to use Uber’s app to book rides on minibuses in Marin.

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Klook CPO Liu Outlines Travel Booking Platform’s Global Expansion

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Having $1 billion in bookings and more than 200 destinations globally – those are big numbers, to be sure, but these are not stats gleaned from an airline. As for Klook itself, the company operates with an effort to streamline the process of booking travel activities that can span visits to attractions, hotels and restaurants.

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FlitWays Steers Toward Europe With Corporate Travel Booking Tool

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FlitWays Technology , a company enabling ground transportation booking, is expanding its B2B offering across Europe. 22) said FlitWays is launching its business travel booking tool in London, Milan, Berlin, Paris and Barcelona to address businesses’ ground transportation management and expense management needs in these markets.

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Travelport, Conferma Continue Push For V-Card Adoption For Aussie Hotel Bookings

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11) that it is expanding its partnership with virtual card company Conferma to ease use of v-cards for corporate travel bookings of hotels for clients in Australia and New Zealand. Travel management companies (TMCs) can centrally settle their hotel bookings using Conferma’s virtual card technology, the firms explained.

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Bank Earnings Call Questions – Get Ready for These

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Now that 1Q is in the books, if you are a public bank, you may have an earnings call coming up in some form. To do that, we wrote a Python script to analyze a representative sample of earnings call transcripts for regional and mid-sized banks over the past several years.

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Pandemic Aside, SoftBank-Backed Travel Platform Klook Raises $200 Million

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Hong Kong’s travel and leisure booking platform Klook has closed a $200 million Series E funding round led by Aspex Management , with participation by Sequoia Capital China , SoftBank Vision Fund, Matrix Partners China and Boyu Capital , according to a press release.

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