And social media. The next time you are on vacation or at a ball game, everything you post on social medi monitored by the company that owns the venue. They are using an Old Technology in a new way. Thats our cover story today. We have more from one hotel chains hightech command center. Reporter at marriotts correspondent headquarters in maryland, they call this glassenclosed room m live. A modern day command center for the chain where employees mo such as twitter, instagram and facebook. Its about a personal relationship we are having with our customer. Every day 300,000 guests post on social media from a marriott property. Executives know this because of a technology called geo fencing. That means basically in the area around a hotel, the conversations that are on social media, we can tell whos around that hotel. Properties worldwide, and they watch as guests post about everything from the fish tacos they had for lunch to pool selfies. So when a guest posts about a special occasion l
Medi monitored by the company that owns the venue. They are using an Old Technology in a new way. Thats our cover story today. We have more from one hotel chains hightech command center. Reporter at marriotts correspondent headquarters in maryland, they call this glassenclosed room m live. A modern day command center for the chain where employees monitor social media platforms, such as twitter, instagram and facebook. Its about a personal relationship we are having with our customer. Every day 300,000 guests post on social media from a marriott property. Executives know this because of a technology called geo fencing. That means basically in the area around a hotel, the conversations that are on social media, we can tell whos around that hotel. Marriott has geo fenced 4,000 properties worldwide, and they watch as guests post they had for lunch to pool selfies. So when a guest posts about a special occasion like a birthday or engagement, the team here can notify the manager of the hotel
Camden with more on the investigation today. Cydney . Reporter lauren, good morning. I just hung up with a police contact, and for the past 14 hours since this shooting occurred before 9 00 last night, detectives have been out here, pounding the pavement, here in this community. They are handing out flyers, you can see, from corner to corner, detectives are combing the alleyways, talking to residents. They are handing out these flyers to get residents here to speak up. This shooting occurred just before 9 00 last night. We are told that the little girl, 8 years old, was struck in the head. Neighbors say the gunfire sounded like fireworks. She suffered a gunshot wound to her head, that little girl. We dont know her name just yet. Was rushed into surgery at Cooper Medical Center and is right now fighting for her life. Were told her mother is by her side. We are working to find out if police will release any Surveillance Video today, that they will share with us, of any suspects involved
I want to show you the rest of the bay. The Speed Sensors not having any problems. South bay, 680. Around alum rock, some activity. Well check that with chp. Trivalley no problems over to the dublin interchange and the bay bridge toll plaza. Me you dont have any problems. You will have to only pause if youre paying cash. Back to you. We have breaking news to report this morning. The European Commission has ruled that ireland gave illegal tax breaks to apple. Apple is now facing fines of more than 14 billion. The eu ruled apple paid substantially lower taxes than other businesses in ireland now has to recover the losses. The most valuable company in the world by market cap, apple was paying an effective Corporate Tax rate around 1 . Ireland promises to appeal that ruling. Now our business and tech reporter scott mcgrew is looking into it. Hes going to have much more on the events of the last 24 hours coming up in 15 minutes. New this morning, Oakland Police are trying to track down thre
The flames started in Upper Providence a little more than an hour ago. Fortunately there are no reports of any injuries right now. We are still working to find out how this started and how badly the homes were damaged. We are also following a hazmat situation at a plant in maple shade, new jersey. A Chemical Spilled today and burned a worker there. Action newss chad pradelli is live at the scene at this moment but the response and the investigation, the very latest there. Chad. Reporter this company is called cvc thermal set specialties a company that makes epoxies according to its web site. Earlier today Maple Shade Police say there was some sort of Chemical Reaction inside the building behind me. An employee was injured. That employee was taken to Cooper University hospital for some minor burns. He did return here to this workplace a short time later. In the meantime Burlington County hazmat Burlington County Health Department they responded. They investigated this spill about two ho