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Travel without traveling: Virtual reality is officially the hottest trend of 2014

By Nick Vivion | April 3, 2014

Hot on the heels of Facebook's acquisition of virtual reality handset maker Occulus, a new VR startup has emerged from stealth with a solid positioning in the travel industry. It's called Jaunt and Read More

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Instagram continues to thrive under Facebook, showing massive surge in 2013

By Nick Vivion | April 1, 2014

Instagram has enjoyed a massive surge in the United States, the latest stats from eMarketer show. In 2013, the photo platform thrived under Facebook's umbrella, seeing a spike of 35% in US-based us Read More

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How one company wants a divorce from Facebook

By PhocusWire | April 1, 2014

SOCIAL: Facebook has evolved (reasonably fast) from being a network for privileged kids at US Ivy League universities to a global phenomenon. For brands which have used the site as a canny marketin Read More

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Digital love-in: Why Twitter, Facebook, Google and Amazon want to be each other

By PhocusWire | March 31, 2014

SOCIAL: Gone are the clear boundaries between a retailer like Amazon and a search engine such as Google. Add some social media into the mix and the two major networks are also changing their stripes Read More

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Did Facebook really offer us all a free ride?

By PhocusWire | March 28, 2014

SOCIAL: Depending on who is talking, Facebook is some kind of marketing nirvana for brands or just a complete waste of time, a place where people go to hang out rather than consumer. The truth is pr Read More

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Sign of the times - hotels add social media to wedding packages

By Karthick Prabu | March 27, 2014

In the good ol' days, couples and guests would often wait days or weeks to see pictures from a wedding. But with people live tweeting conferences, posting pictures and videos of concerts on Faceboo Read More

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How to reach travelers on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Nick Vivion | March 21, 2014

Native advertising specialists Ampush has compiled some of statistics on how Facebook users engage with travel, providing some actionable conclusions for marketers looking to leverage the platform. Read More

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Facebook speaks: how engagement in travel is evolving

By Sean O'Neil | March 20, 2014

Lee McCabe has been the global head of travel at Facebook, the social network with 1.2 billion users, since October 2012. A veteran of Expedia, he knows the travel industry well. McCabe recently sp Read More

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Flight MH 370 - Malaysia Airlines and its social media strategy

By Kevin May | March 19, 2014

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370 has inevitably captured the attention of the world - not least because so little of its fate is known. As dozens of countries continue the pains Read More

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In-stream social ads evolve: Twitter promotes accounts and Facebook does video

By Nick Vivion | March 14, 2014

This week saw two significant evolutions on the social advertising front: Twitter's Promoted Accounts and Facebook's video ads. Twitter's Promoted Accounts Twitter has announced a new iteration Read More

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Hotels on Facebook: pictures of restaurant food and scenery most popular

By Karthick Prabu | March 13, 2014

Among the content posted by hotels on Facebook, pictures of their restaurant food have the highest engagement at 27.75 likes, 0.99 comments, and 2.98 shares for every 1,000 impressions. InsideFaceb Read More

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How travel advertisers can crack the code of social media marketing

By Viewpoints | March 12, 2014

The travel industry has been slow in some respects to unlock the power of social media as a means of reaching prospective customers. But the two networks arguably at the center of social media, Fac Read More

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Today's kids, tomorrow's travellers and what they are doing online

By Linda Fox | March 7, 2014

For some insight on how travel companies might shape products and services for up and coming generations, it's worth looking at numbers on children's current online behaviour. The latest figures fr Read More

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How have the Big Five tech giants compared on the acquisition battlefield? [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Nick Vivion | February 27, 2014

Simply Business, a business insurance provider in the UK, has aggregated the acquisition histories of the Big Five tech companies into a handy interactive infographic. The graphic takes a look at t Read More

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Study: devices and technology used on leisure and business trips

By Kevin May | February 26, 2014

Decent sized study - and some interesting factoids - out of mobile manufacturer Nokia looking at what devices travellers (and their kids) use when on a trip. The online poll was carried out with Read More

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