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Travel Weekly
3 days ago
- Business
- Travel Weekly
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: TravelWits
Subscribe now using your favorite service: This season, Trade Secrets is hosting the Trade Secrets Tech Summit. Every Monday, co-hosts Emma Weissmann and Jamie Biesiada will feature a different travel technology company that works with travel advisors. A representative from the featured company will begin with a 5-minute elevator pitch to tell advisors about their product, followed by a 15-minute Q-and-A with the hosts. This week's featured company is TravelWits, represented by CEO Arman Bimatov. Trade Secrets is using Host Agency Reviews' list of technology providers as a basis for this season. If a technology company doesn't have a profile, advisors are encouraged to send a link to the hosts to be added to the list. This episode was sponsored by National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions. Further resources TravelWits on the web TravelWits on Host Agency Reviews From TravelAge West: What is TravelWits? Here's why Virtuoso accepted the AI-powered platform built for travel advisors Mentioned in this episode Get in touch! Email us: tradesecrets@ Theme song Sock Hop by Kevin MacLeod License See for privacy information.
Travel Weekly
14-07-2025
- Business
- Travel Weekly
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Approach Guides
Subscribe now using your favorite service: This season, Trade Secrets is hosting the Trade Secrets Tech Summit. Every Monday, co-hosts Emma Weissmann and Jamie Biesiada will feature a different travel technology company that works with travel advisors. A representative from the featured company will begin with a 5-minute elevator pitch to tell advisors about their product, followed by a 15-minute Q-and-A with the hosts. This week's featured company is Approach Guides, represented by founder and chief marketing officer Jennifer Raezer. Trade Secrets is using Host Agency Reviews' list of technology providers as a basis for this season. If a technology company doesn't have a profile, advisors are encouraged to send a link to the hosts to be added to the list. This episode was sponsored by National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions. Further resources Approach Guides on the web Get in touch! Email us: tradesecrets@ Theme song Sock Hop by Kevin MacLeod License See for privacy information.
Travel Weekly
09-07-2025
- Business
- Travel Weekly
Travefy integrates new CRM tools into its advisor platform
Travefy has integrated a new suite of customer relationship management (CRM) tools into its platform for travel advisors. Previously, Travefy offered itinerary building and management software, as well as a website and form builder for advisors. Now, its CRM suite includes invoicing, commission tracking, integrated email and a contact management system. Trade Secrets podcast: Travefy Travefy's Stephanie Gries talked tech on this episode of the Trade Secrets' Tech Summit series. Listen now Travefy said the CRM is embedded into the platform advisors are already using to build itineraries, so they don't need to leave the platform to accomplish other business tasks. That was intentional, according to Kyle Deterding, Travefy's vice president of product: By analyzing advisor workflows and use patterns, it found advisors "were wasting hundreds of hours each year switching between tools," he said. He estimated using Travefy's CRM could save an advisor 200 hours a year. And in a series of hundreds of interviews in the past year, Travefy said, advisors told the company they wanted to be able to accomplish multiple business tasks in one place. CRM capabilities are live today at no additional cost to Travefy users. "Travel advisors are the heartbeat of this industry," Travefy CEO David Chait said. "This CRM release represents our commitment to listening to advisors, solving their daily challenges and reinvesting in their success. It's a massive leap forward -- and just the beginning."
Bloomberg
06-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Anduril Deploys Tech Along Southern Border
Anduril Industries Inc. Executive Chairman Trae Stephens says its technology is being used across the southern border. "We are deployed across somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of the entire southwest border at this point." Stephens speaks to Tom Giles at the Bloomberg Tech summit. (Source: Bloomberg)
Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Perplexity received 780 million queries last month, CEO says
Perplexity received 780 million queries in May, CEO Aravind Srinivas shared on stage at Bloomberg's Tech Summit on Thursday. Srinivas said that the AI search engine is seeing more than 20% growth month-over-month. "Give it a year, we'll be doing, like, a billion queries a week if we can sustain this growth rate," Srinivas said. "And that's pretty impressive because the first day in 2022, we did 3,000 queries, just one single day. So from there to doing 30 million queries a day now, it's been phenomenal growth." Srinivas went on to note that the same growth trajectory is possible, especially with the new Comet browser that it's working on. "If people are in the browser, it's infinite retention," he said. "Everything in the search bar, everything on the new tab page, everything you're doing on the sidecar, any of the pages you're in, these are all going to be extra queries per active user, as well as seeking new users who just are tired of legacy browsers, like Chrome. I think that's going to be the way to grow over the coming year." Srinivas said the reason Perplexity is developing Comet is to shift the role of AI from simply providing answers to actually completing actions on your behalf. He explained that when you get an AI-powered answer, it's essentially four or five searches in one. On the other hand, AI performing an action would be getting an entire browsing session done with one prompt. "You really need to actually have a browser and hybridize the compute on the client and the server side in the most seamless way possible," he said. "And that calls for rethinking the whole browser." He went on to explain that Perplexity isn't thinking of Comet as "yet another browser," but as a "cognitive operating system." "It'll be there for you every time, anytime, for work or life, as a system on the side, or like, just going and doing browsing sessions for you," Srinivas said. "And I think that'll fundamentally make us rethink how we even think about the internet. Like, earlier we would browse the internet, but now people are increasingly living on the internet. Like a lot of our life actually exists there. And if you want to build a proactive, personalized AI, it needs to live together with you, and that's why we need to rethink the browser entirely." While the company hasn't revealed too much about the browser, Srinivas said in April that one reason Perplexity is developing its own browser is to track user activity beyond its own app so that it can sell premium ads, which would essentially mirror what Google quietly did to become the giant it is today. It's currently unknown when exactly Comet will launch, but Srinivas previously said on X that it will launch in the coming weeks. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch at
