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Something in this door-to-door search trend - Lufthansa and Booking.com latest to try it out

By Kevin May | August 19, 2013

Rome2Rio, one of just a handful of door-to-door travel search technology providers, appears to be persuading others that it's a shift in user behaviour worth capturing.... Read More

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How to get much-needed attention to a mobile application using email marketing

By PhocusWire | August 19, 2013

Assuming that promotion on Google Play or Apple’s App Store will take your app from beta to bestseller is… well, wishful thinking.... Read More

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Oooh-errr missus - IndiGo Airlines joins Twitter, tweets saucy picture [UPDATED]

By Karthick Prabu | August 18, 2013

Yet another example of a travel brand finding life in social media a little tricky - India's IndiGo airlines retweeted a pornographic picture on its official Twitter page.... Read More

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THack returns to San Francisco - bring your Valley ideas downtown for more creativity and inspiration

By PhocusWire | August 16, 2013

After the success of our first developer hackathon on the west coast of the US last September, THack is heading back to California!... Read More

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What do some of the top ranked sites on Google have in common?

By PhocusWire | August 16, 2013

How much can a search engine change in a year? If it’s Google, the answer is a lot. Best SEO practices suddenly can turn into web page death sentences if you’re not careful.... Read More

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Now you can never forget a travel booking - Google Glass integrates reservation alerts

By Karthick Prabu | August 16, 2013

Google has issued an update to its Glass software so users are able to receive notifications for hotel bookings and reservations for restaurants and activities.... Read More

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How airports fare in the Twitter world [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Karthick Prabu | August 15, 2013

In an airport, check-ins go into Facebook and Foursquare, pictures invariably also go to Facebook and now Instagram, but what about the tweets? Indeed, what do travellers tweet about?... Read More

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eLong sees the mobile future, creates $100 million fund to back mobile tech projects in China

By Karthick Prabu | August 15, 2013

Over the past five years, eLong has been actively working towards its goal of becoming the number 1 player in China's hotel booking market.... Read More

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Reality check - local tourism is not ready for mobile payments

By Stephen Joyce | August 15, 2013

I recognize that as a technologist it's easy for me to get caught up in the latest and greatest new technologies and apparent innovation sweeping across the industry.... Read More

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Why we ditched mobile and hitched to tablet

By Viewpoints | August 15, 2013

Behind the scene view of how mygola decided to build an app for Tablet first, but not for a mobile.... Read More

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Globa.li, a B2B reservations platform aiming first at African boutique properties, preps for launch

By Sean O'Neil | August 15, 2013

Globa.li, a US-based reservations platform that aims to connect boutique hotel in Africa and Latin America with sellers of travel elsewhere in the world, is about to close its investment round.... Read More

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Unlikely tips for startups and entrepreneurs

By PhocusWire | August 15, 2013

I love the startup world, but I really love the weird, atypical, non-Valley, non-20-something-Ivy-Leaguers-trying-to-be-Zuckerburg startups.... Read More

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If an online retail giant launched an airline...

By Sarah Kennedy Ellis | August 14, 2013

Tony Hsieh, CEO of shoe online retail giant Zappos and author of Delivering Happiness, has a habit of delivering inspired keynotes - he makes people think about what they do and how they do it.... Read More