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The Flight Tonight app aims to bring spontaneity to the masses

By Sean O'Neil | July 28, 2014

Last-minute airfare search app Flight Tonight -- which operates like a HotelTonight for plane tickets -- has debuted in the Apple App Store. Flight Tonight helps travelers search for the cheapest r Read More

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Hopper officially flies new route as users not interested in aggregated destination search

By Nick Vivion | June 5, 2014

Travel startup Hopper was announced nearly 3 years ago with $8 million in funding to fuel a stealth-mode build of a full-text search tool for travel. Three years, in addition to the time since being f Read More

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Hopper opens to all, also fires up data research service

By Sean O'Neil | January 13, 2014

Last week saw the soft launch of Hopper, the long-awaited consumer trip planning engine that claims to be powered by the "world's largest structured database of travel information". Since last summ Read More

ZapTravel attempts semantic travel metasearch, with activities upfront

By Sean O'Neil | April 2, 2013

Its elevator pitch is that it's "a smart "Kayak" for tailored deals when you don't know where or when you want to go." Read More

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Expedia starts testing natural language travel search Big Data-style

By Kevin May | January 3, 2013

It's not just startups trying to capture the mood for developing natural language and semantic search in travel - Expedia is quietly working on its own platform. Read More

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For the sake of innovation in the travel industry, it is time to unleash the (Big) data

By Valyn Perini | November 15, 2012

Big Data. I know, you’re totally sick of this topic. The chatter about Big Data is just numbing - even the Harvard Business Review joined the chorus a few months ago. Read More

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CheapAir unveils semantic search for booking flights with natural language queries

By Sean O'Neil | September 28, 2012

CheapAir.com has begun beta-testing a semantic search tool that allows users to pose natural language flight queries with airport codes and dates in various formats. Read More

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Hopper nears launch with additional $12M in funding

By Nick Vivion | August 15, 2012

Travel search startup Hopper has announced an additional $12 million investment round led by OMERS Ventures, the venture capital arm of one of Canada's largest pension funds. Read More

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Big Data and the infinite possibilities for the travel industry

By Alex Kremer | January 4, 2012

Similar to most up-and-coming technologies, there is much confusion as to what something like Big Data really means and how it can help make the customer experience better and lead to more sales. Read More

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Big Data: Bringing the magic back to travel technology

By Frederic Lalonde | September 20, 2011

Last week I was invited to speak on a panel at the Boston THack, Tnooz's event for developers and engineers. The topic was innovation in travel technology. Read More

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Travel technology shakedown - are APIs evil and is XML dead?

By Dennis Schaal | September 15, 2011

Developers grapple with data all the time, so the idea that someone might characterise data as "broken" is probably not going to take many aback. Read More

Hopper aims to inspire with $8M in funding and 600 servers

By Dennis Schaal | August 22, 2011

With $8 million in new funding from Atlas Venture and Brightspark Ventures, travel startup Hopper hopes to continue building its own servers and to bridge the travel inspiration gap. Read More

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Hopper ready to unleash full text travel search system

By Dennis Schaal | March 14, 2011

If the future of travel search is something like Hopper, and if Google has something like this in mind for its ITA Software acquisition, then opponents of the deal may have more to worry about than they... Read More

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