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Expedia claims unfair practices by Google in complaint to European Commission
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Expedia claims unfair practices by Google in complaint to European Commission
By Kevin May | April 2, 2012
Expedia is not only trying to put pressure on Google in the US through the FairSearch campaign, but has now opened a second front in Europe over allegations of a "violation" of competition law.... Read More
Australia-New Zealand hotel prices - March to May 2012
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Australia-New Zealand hotel prices - March to May 2012
By PhocusWire | April 1, 2012
Data trends on cheapest hotel rates as well as median rate for three months of three, four and five star hotels across some of the major cities in Australia-New Zealand.... Read More
Best of Tnooz Last Week – Selling or beaching startups, Switching Timelines, Changing anti past
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Best of Tnooz Last Week – Selling or beaching startups, Switching Timelines, Changing anti past
By PhocusWire | April 1, 2012
What were the best articles on Tnooz last week?... Read More
WhosWhereWhen promises to bring awesome productivity to travel conferences
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WhosWhereWhen promises to bring awesome productivity to travel conferences
By Kevin May | March 31, 2012
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring UK-base WhosWhereWhen, an amazing new smartphone app to make travel conferences more productive than ever.... Read More
RyanairPlus - a cheeky attempt to get around the Captcha, but inevitably leading to brand issues
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RyanairPlus - a cheeky attempt to get around the Captcha, but inevitably leading to brand issues
By Kevin May | March 31, 2012
Many rejoice when low cost carrier Ryanair lands another bout of bad publicity or, more recently, others think of ways of getting around its refusal to work with third partie... Read More
What Else? Tripomatic widgets, Voyager-Lanyon, Ozon Travel results, MyHotels performance
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What Else? Tripomatic widgets, Voyager-Lanyon, Ozon Travel results, MyHotels performance
By PhocusWire | March 31, 2012
Tripomatic brings widgets to third parties, Voyager signs with Lanyon, Ozon boasts strng results, MyHotels claims redesign joy... A round-up of other stories from across the industry.... Read More
LivingSocial hits 1M room nights but Priceline should not feel boxed in
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LivingSocial hits 1M room nights but Priceline should not feel boxed in
By Dennis Schaal | March 30, 2012
LivingSocial, a flash sales site, believes its travel vertical is no flash in the pan after having just reached the milestone of selling 1 million hotel room nights.... Read More
Expedia: 6 ways for affiliates to combat Google Panda spankings
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Expedia: 6 ways for affiliates to combat Google Panda spankings
By Dennis Schaal | March 30, 2012
Google's ongoing Panda updates are geared to bring websites with high-quality content to the fore and to penalize sites of lower quality, especially when they are merely regurgitating content from other sites.... Read More
Can consumer travel startups make it without being bought?
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Can consumer travel startups make it without being bought?
By Alex Kremer | March 30, 2012
Expedia. Travelocity. TripAdvisor. Kayak. These are all household names that even your mother will likely know.... Read More
What Else? White House travel tech, Lonely Planet, Dolphin-CWT, PriceTravel, SITA
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What Else? White House travel tech, Lonely Planet, Dolphin-CWT, PriceTravel, SITA
By PhocusWire | March 30, 2012
OTA heads visit the White House, Lonely Planet ramps up affiliate presence, Dolphin Dynamics and CWT target cruise, PriceTravel targets Colombia, SITA wins... A round-up of other stories from across the industry.... Read More
Soverinn wants to bring the end experience into hotel bookings
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Soverinn wants to bring the end experience into hotel bookings
By Kevin May | March 30, 2012
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based Soverinn, a new booking technology platform for users looking for more than just a hotel room.... Read More
Mobile users drive Cleartrip Expressway one-click flight bookings
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Mobile users drive Cleartrip Expressway one-click flight bookings
By Dennis Schaal | March 29, 2012
It's happening more frequently now -- innovations in mobile are finding their way into travel companies' desktop solutions.... Read More
All eyes on new iPad retina display and impact on apps and websites
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All eyes on new iPad retina display and impact on apps and websites
By Dennis Schaal | March 29, 2012
With the arrival of the new iPad and its retina graphics display, publishers of travel iPad apps and websites had better take all of their hotel and destination images and double-down -- or actually, double-up -- on them.... Read More
Sharing Tnooz and other sociable things
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Sharing Tnooz and other sociable things
By Kevin May | March 29, 2012
One of the (many) reasons we picked Wordpress as our platform for hosting Tnooz back in September 2009 was the ease with which various plug-ins could be, well, plugged-in.... Read More
Travelport strengthens China ties with TravelSky hotels deal
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Travelport strengthens China ties with TravelSky hotels deal
By Linda Fox | March 29, 2012
Travelport and China-based TravelSky Technology relationship was further boosted today with news of an agreement to share hotel content... Read More