OwlTing Group announced the launch of its OwlPay Booking Engine for Agent Checkout in June 2026, designed to facilitate AI agent-initiated bookings and payments in the hospitality sector. The service integrates booking confirmation, payment authorization, and cross-border settlement, targeting over 2,800 existing hotel clients on its OwlNest platform. This innovation aims to capture a growing market where AI agents are predicted to handle 30% of travel bookings by 2030, offering hotels and travel agencies a streamlined, AI-ready booking infrastructure. Revenue will come from platform fees, payment fees, and transaction fees, with the company leveraging its existing multi-currency and licensed payment infrastructure to support global hospitality commerce.
Sodexo has secured a major global contract to provide catering services across more than 130 Meta sites in over 30 countries. This large-scale partnership includes diverse locations such as headquarters, campuses, data centers, and conference centers...
Frasers Group PLC has withheld financial guidance for the upcoming year due to uncertainty around its takeover bids for Hugo Boss and Accent Group. The retailer's full-year adjusted profit before tax fell 4% to £538 million, impacted by asset impairm...
Ethereum rose 3.17% to $1,923.53, outperforming Bitcoin's modest 0.18% gain to $64,588.87, signaling an early rotation toward large-cap altcoins. Despite this, overall market activity slowed, with declines in DeFi, stablecoin, and derivatives trading...
Gabriel Holding A/S has agreed to sell its European FurnMaster furniture manufacturing operations, including subsidiaries in Poland and Lithuania, to Leggett & Platt for an initial price of approximately EUR 9 million, with a possible additional paym...
A Gaza resident raised over £55,000 on GoFundMe to support his family but faced issues as the platform cannot pay directly to Gaza, forcing funds through intermediaries who failed to deliver the full amount. This highlights a broader problem in human...
