Knowcross®, the global leader in providing service quality and optimization solutions, today announced the release of the hospitality industry's most powerful facility management application, KNOW Tenant.

Otrum is pleased to announce that Airtime, a cloud-based movie streaming app from Techlive, will be embedded as standard and at no extra cost in all Otrum interactive solutions. This exclusive opportunity is available to all existing and new Otrum IPTV customers, provided that their interactive solution is operating on a compatible Smart TV.

Cendyn, the leading innovator in hotel CRM and hotel sales platforms for the hospitality industry, today announces the acquisition of The Rainmaker Group, a leading revenue and profit optimization platform for hotels, resorts and casinos. The acquisition of The Rainmaker Group’s integrated solutions will enable Cendyn to drive performance across all aspects of the hotel business. Aligning operations, marketing, sales, and now, revenue will provide hoteliers with the means to optimize their strategies and drive performance and loyalty across their businesses. As part of the acquisition, Tammy Farley, Co-Founder of Rainmaker, will move to the role of board member.

INTELITY®, the provider of the broadest enterprise guest engagement and staff management platform for hospitality, announced today that its platform is now live at White Pearl Resorts, a luxury property located on Mozambique's beautiful Lagoon Coast.

Leading hospitality mobile technology platform provider, FCS, has welcomed Dondon Posadas to head up the company's business development in the Philippines.

Angie Hospitality, developer of the world's first voice and AI solution purpose-built for the hospitality environment, has been selected by an expert panel of judges as the "Best Travel, Leisure, or Hospitality Experience" at the 2019 VOICE Summit Awards. The VOICE Summit is the world's largest event celebrating voice technology, which took place July 22-25 in Newark, N.J at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Eleven, the pioneer in cloud-based central authentication management systems, undergoes rapid expansion. The ElevenOS platform enables hoteliers and multi-family property managers around the globe to deliver a seamless Wi-Fi experience that guests and residents love. In July, the company celebrated the onboarding of its millionth room on its platform ElevenOS, marking a significant milestone in the company's history.

Hotels have a tough time staying PCI compliant. Systems that hold credit card data need to be PCI compliant. Recent PCI audits are now calling for systems that connect to 3rd parties holding credit card data, to also be PCI compliant. For hotels, this means that any solution touching the PMS may need to be PCI compliant even if the system itself does not deal with credit card data.

When it launched in 2007, the iPhone was a derivative of the iPod, designed to "mimic the features of the iPod while allowing for increased functionality" like phone calls and web browsing (HistoryCooperative). The next version, the 3G released in 2009, allowed third parties to create and promote their own apps, effectively turning it into more than a music and phone device. In all the versions after, the sizes have changed, the material has gone stainless, the camera has been remodeled and improved...but these are relatively small shifts.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported over 23,000 endangered runaway children in 2018. One in seven were likely victims of child sex trafficking. 80% of human trafficking victims are women and girls and up to 50% are minors. 70% of human trafficking is linked to organized crime. Hotels across the U.S. are being used to shuffle children in and out of rooms for sexual exploitation and hoteliers are increasingly under scrutiny to do something about it. Lawsuits are being filed from Los Angeles to Philadelphia and six-figure settlements are being paid by hotel brands to settle human trafficking lawsuits.