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Travel STARTUPS roundup - January 2014

By PhocusWire | January 15, 2014

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel STARTUPS in tourism and hospitality for January 2014. 22 January 2014: Kuaidi Dache accepts Alipay China-based taxi hailing app... Read More

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Hotel giants fall victim to spam attack on Google

By Linda Fox | January 15, 2014

Google has confirmed it is working to fix an attack on big brand hotels including Marriott and Hilton, which sees links to their websites redirected to a third party. The search giant declined to m... Read More

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Hipmunk CEO eyes buoyant 2014, as mobile goes nuts

By Sean O'Neil | January 15, 2014

Hipmunk, the flight and hotel metasearch company, enjoyed an extraordinary blitz of West Coast tech media fanfare after its launch in August 2010. Yet many long-time members of the travel industry... Read More

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Secret Escapes to unleash mobile strategy via JustBook acquisition

By Linda Fox | January 15, 2014

Interesting moves in the same-day hotel booking world this morning with news that Germany-based JustBook has been acquired by Secret Escapes. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed but JustBook... Read More

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Brick-by-brick - China starts dismantling wall of air distribution

By Karthick Prabu | January 15, 2014

Possible game-changer alert: the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has approved the licenses of two foreign GDSs to sell overseas airline tickets in the country. In late 2012, Tnooz rep... Read More

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Tours and activities service BeMyGuest acquires Indiescapes

By Karthick Prabu | January 14, 2014

In an effort to expand its presence in South East Asia, Singapore-based tours and activities service provider BeMyGuest has acquired Indiescapes. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This acqui... Read More

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TCritic: Nomad charger makes on-the-go charging as simple as USB

By Nick Vivion | January 14, 2014

The digital nomad is most certainly power hungry - one has to look no further than the tangle of cords that emerges from the average attendee's bag during a conference or at security to see how import... Read More

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Instagram may be Facebook's filter to strategic glory

By PhocusWire | January 14, 2014

SOCIAL: Doubts remain across the board that Facebook, despite the vast size of its community, is a logical place for brands to advertise. Throw in the mobile element and scepticism only increases fu... Read More

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Hotel tech provider SiteMinder secures $30M in capital from Facebook investor

By Kevin May | January 14, 2014

SiteMinder has started off 2014 with a shot across the bows of its hotel distribution rivals by winning a mighty $30 million investment from Technology Crossover Ventures. The Sydney, Australia-bas... Read More

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BookIt lands debut funding round in shape of $10M from Monroe Capital

By Kevin May | January 14, 2014

Online travel agency BookIt has raised $10 million in investment from Monroe Capital, some two and a half years after disclosing it was exploring "strategic alternatives" for the business. The comp... Read More

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Cruise tracking tech brings friends along for the ride

By Linda Fox | January 14, 2014

While everyone acknowledges travel is one of the most shared subjects across social networks, making money out of it remains a challenge. Enter TrekTraka, a different take on trip sharing which lev... Read More

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Mobile app developers - no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

By PhocusWire | January 14, 2014

DEVICES: Some believed that every man, woman and child (okay, maybe not the last one) owning a smartphone was going to trigger a marketplace where clever developers with a working knowledge of devic... Read More

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Travel brands capitalise on social trend of our time - the selfie

By Karthick Prabu | January 13, 2014

After being named Word of the Year, the "selfie" has started to emerge in travel industry as a viable form of marketing and creating a community. For those with heads buried in the sand for the pas... Read More

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Spontaneity report shows that Britons seeking unplanned vacations constrained by technology

By Nick Vivion | January 13, 2014

In what might be the world's first "spontaneity report," 2,200 residents of the island nation of the United Kingdom have been surveyed about spontaneous travel. Or, as the report bills it, "the larges... 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

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