Mark Frary
Writer and Editor at Freelance
Author, journalist (travel, tech, business, science), speaker, social media consultant, festival and conference organiser
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2 weeks ago |
phocuswire.com | Mark Frary
If you listened to the keynote speeches at Google’sI/O developer conference this week, you will have noticed that use cases intravel and tourism were peppered throughout. What is abundantly clear from the presentations by GoogleCEO Sundar Pichai and colleagues such as DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis is that theworld is rapidly moving away from traditional search engine results toward an artificialintelligence (AI)-enabled future.
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3 weeks ago |
phocuswire.com | Mark Frary
There are many quotations by Warren Buffett that you can live by as an investor. Perhaps one of the sagest pieces of adviceis: “You only have to do a very few things right in your life, so long as youdon't do too many things wrong.”That he said “too manythings wrong” rather than “anything wrong” is recognition that investors canand do make mistakes or, if not mistakes, then opportunities to learn.
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1 month ago |
phocuswire.com | Mark Frary
It used to be so easy. If you were embedding artificial intelligence (AI) into your travel business back in 2023, the choice was almost binary: Use the newly announced ChatGPT large language model (LLM) from OpenAI or build it yourself. The AI world has changed dramatically since then. Anthropic introduced the Claude family of LLMs, Google released Gemini and in January 2025, China’s DeepSeek upset the AI applecart by announcing its own, vastly cheaper AI model.
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1 month ago |
phocuswire.com | Mark Frary
Globally, the initial public offering (IPO) market turned a corner in 2024. There were 1,340 IPOs, generating a deal value of more than $126 billion—up from $120.13 billion in 2023. However, the IPO market is not back to 2021 levels, when low interest rates and markets being at an all-time high helped generate $606.68 billion from 3,136 IPOs. “I don't think anyone is predicting a return to 2021 levels. The question is, when do we come back to a normal year?
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Mar 4, 2025 |
businesstravelnewseurope.com | Mark Frary
Management One of the companies behind travel tech firm Snowfall has gone into liquidation with debts of almost £10.5 million, leaving employees and companies in the travel space severely out of pocket. However, the overall organisation continues to operate as Junction following a rebrand and “full reset” last month. News • analysis • podcasts • reports I accept the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.
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Still a physicist at heart. See you there https://t.co/NRWtgmra9x
Today is the birthday of former @IndexCensorship colleague Andrei Aliaksandrau and he is spending it in jail in #Belarus, a 'guest' of dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka. I spoke to his friends for this article to mark his birthday #FreeAndreiAndIrina https://t.co/00qxoW9CvF
In 2018, Salma al-Shehab tweeted to wish the families of imprisoned women human rights defenders joy and safety. Now she is imprisoned for speaking out, I wish her the same and call for her release #FreeSalma
شكراً يا ربي على عام جميل مضى . يا رب عام جديد أفضل ، و بشرى بحرية معتقلي و معتقلات الرأي .. يا رب ارزقهم و أهاليهم فرحة و أمان قريبين 💛
