Digital Roundups

This week in digital news, we're still weighing Amazon's growing influence in travel, now via Alexa for hospitality. Are Google and Apple far behind?

This week in digital news, travel brands across many sectors thought about the long game at Skift Tech Forum. How can companies balance personalization and privacy? What kind of threat do Google and Amazon present? And how big is the gap between the tech haves and have-nots?

This week in digital news, we studied young, tech-savvy companies around the world that are really innovating, and picked our most promising favorites. Maybe some will become household names, like the ones joining us at Skift Tech Forum next week.

This week in digital news, we learned that online travel bosses are earning more than many of their counterparts in other industries, maybe in some tiny part because the folks in zip codes 94043 and 60602 are booking so much travel online.

This week in digital news, Yelp wants to see tighter regulation of Google's business practices, which has real implications for travel and restaurants. And don't miss two interviews leading up to Skift Tech Forum on the payments revolution and the hype of big data.

Once again this week we heard of the mighty potential of tours and activities, this time from TripAdvisor CEO Stephen Kaufer. Meanwhile, personalization continues to be a theme on the minds of many travel executives these days.

This week in digital news, we took a broad view on earnings from Expedia, Travelzoo, and Trivago, the last coming out on bottom. For more big-picture analysis, check out our first Corporate Travel Innovators List.

This week in digital news, Booking Holdings was very busy with long-term strategic moves, including plans to go full-service while buying an activities distribution startup.

This week in digital news, thousands of hotels are trying out TripAdvisor's new sponsored listings offering, and companies are more worried than ever about the security of their data when employees hit the road.

This week in digital news, we looked at how mobile payments might displace cash, and how artificial intelligence might displace tourism workers — or not.