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Moses muses - the Ten Commandments of content marketing

By PhocusWire | November 12, 2013

MARKETING: Content marketing is the buzz phrase on the lips of many a digital specialist (or guru) over the past few years. But, typically for a reasonably youthful discipline, best approaches to ta... Read More

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Airport IT investment rockets towards $6 billion with focus on passenger experience

By Nick Vivion | November 12, 2013

Airport IT investment is set to reach $6 billion in 2013, according to the latest data from SITA. The survey outlines large-scale growth as airports drill down into an understanding of the passenge... Read More

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Shijiebang raises $10 million to serve growing China outbound market

By Karthick Prabu | November 11, 2013

Shijiebang has raised around 10 million in Series A funding led by angel investors such as Jerry Yang (co-founder of Yahoo), Fosun Capital Group and Chinarock Capital Management. Shijiebang also la... Read More

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Travel guide apps have work to do as consumers rarely use them

By Kevin May | November 11, 2013

For all the promotion, PR in the mainstream media and buzz on social media, it appears travel guide applications on devices are not resonating so much with travellers. British Airways tested the pu... Read More

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(Big) Data paralysis is standing between you and your customers

By PhocusWire | November 11, 2013

SYSTEMS: On the one hand having big data pouring from every, err, pore in the digital ecosystem is a good thing. It means brands can target their customers more efficiently and effectively (hopefull... Read More

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Welcome to the Xbox One hotel (seriously)

By Kevin May | November 11, 2013

It goes with the territory these days that most blockbuster films will have reams of merchandising and tie-ins with other products to help with marketing. Any parent visiting a Lego store or fast f... Read More

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Startup pitch: ShareTrips drops collaboration tools into the hotel booking process

By Nick Vivion | November 11, 2013

A new travel startup called ShareTrips focuses on bringing friends, family and groups together in the hotel selection process. Rather than making a decision in a vacuum, or an endless string of e-mail... Read More

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Gen-Ys get all the attention - spare a thought for the Silver Surfer in travel

By Kevin May | November 11, 2013

The media (us included), analysts, researchers and marketers are all probably a little bit guilty of giving too much attention to the generation coming round the corner. This is natural: Gen-Yers (... Read More

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Social seating gets a room - checks in to hotel sector

By Linda Fox | November 11, 2013

Social seating, it seems, has been quietly making headway in the background - although perhaps not in the direction we might have expected. Rather than announcements of airlines flocking to integra... Read More

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Sometimes Twitter is about being selfish, not expansive

By PhocusWire | November 11, 2013

SOCIAL: There was plenty of debate in the early days as to what users were actually doing with the "micro-blogging service", Twitter. Was it a broadcast channel or engagement platform, a way to poke... Read More

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Expedia plots travel graph, thinks more like stock market than supermarket

By Linda Fox | November 11, 2013

Expedia dropped a few more clues last week as to how it plans to meet the needs of the rapidly evolving consumer. That bit about online travel agencies traditionally not being very good at 'persona... Read More

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Startup pitch: PlanMy.Travel wants to solve travel planning woes with human expertise

By Karthick Prabu | November 10, 2013

When travel planning, do you search multiple websites and look out for as much information as possible? If yes, then PlanMy.Travel says it has a different approach to it. India-based PlanMy.Travel... Read More

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How much mobile data are you using every day? [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | November 9, 2013

Until the overseas roaming charge issue is eradicated forever (very unlikely), many users will always have an eye on how much mobile data is being consumed. Developers (and nerds) will often wonder... Read More

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Why the human brain is hard-wired to connect socially

By PhocusWire | November 9, 2013

SOCIAL: The sheer number of members on Facebook and other social networks illustrate that many people have a intrinsic desire to connect, share and debate with both people they know and relative or... Read More

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Travelport eyeing Beyond Air as key element for the future

By Kevin May | November 8, 2013

Almost a fifth of Travelport revenue is now coming from non-air (or "Beyond Air", as it now calls it) activities - indicating what the company hopes will be an ongoing shift away from "traditional" se... Read More

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