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White Lodging releases more about credit card data breach, including affected hotels

By Nick Vivion | February 4, 2014

There's an update to the far-reaching credit card data breach story that Tnooz covered yesterday. The operator, White Lodging, confirms that they did in fact have a significant security breach for man... Read More

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Entering the next phase of mobile commerce in the travel industry

By Glenn Gruber | February 4, 2014

Mobile commerce continues to grow at a fast pace. According to eMarketer, mobile commerce or mCommerce constitutes $41.68 billion of the total $262.3 billion of ecommerce sales for 2013 or an incre... Read More

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Nara aims to Pandorify travel with its Big Data discovery engine

By Sean O'Neil | February 4, 2014

If music recommendation service Pandora and user-generated rating site TripAdvisor had a love child, it might be Nara Logics, a US startup. Nara's premise is that if you tell it a hotel you have e... Read More

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MakeMyTrip reports 40% revenue from non-air, mobile channel also grows

By Karthick Prabu | February 3, 2014

India-based OTA MakeMyTrip has reported a revenue less service costs of $28.5 million for the third quarter of 2013, an increase of 42.1% year-on-year. The NASDAQ-listed company said the quarter wa... Read More

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Startup pitch: RoomLion aims for global marketplace for serviced apartments

By Karthick Prabu | February 3, 2014

Whilst the market is witnessing a number of peer-to-peer accommodation sharing services, India-based startup RoomLion focuses on one particular type. It is aiming to build a web marketplace for onl... Read More

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Amadeus identifies corporate shark as key business travel segment

By Linda Fox | February 3, 2014

Ahead of the Business Travel Show in London this week, Amadeus has released research on traveller priorities for 2014. The Business Travel Gets Personal study throws up efficiency as the number one... Read More

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Facebook ten years in - how one tourism board says it benefits

By Kevin May | February 3, 2014

"Facebook ten years". A few words that will have many choking on their morning coffees - but, yes, the omnipresent social network celebrates a decade this week. Through the various stages of its ra... Read More

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Latest credit card data breach revealed, affecting a national multi-brand hotel operator

By Nick Vivion | February 3, 2014

National hotel franchisor White Lodging has been beset by a credit card data breach, with fraud stretching for more than 9 months, the KrebsOnSecurity blog has revealed. Brian Krebs, who is the pre... Read More

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US judge allows a class action suit against Gogo for its in-flight wifi contracts

By Sean O'Neil | February 3, 2014

A federal judge has allowed a class action suit to proceed against Gogo, the largest in-flight wifi provider. The filing is on behalf of air travelers. It claims that the company is violating antit... Read More

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IT investment report shows significant spend increase in 2014

By Nick Vivion | February 3, 2014

North American IT professionals have budgeted an average of $302,000 for IT-related expenses in 2014, a new study from Spiceworks has found. The study, available in full here, first determined the... Read More

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EUREKA! Where could your travel startup idea come from?

By Alex Bainbridge | February 3, 2014

Depending upon your pain threshold, running a travel startup is either the most rewarding challenge in your life or it can be a truly terrifying ordeal. Why? Because you lay forth your personal... Read More

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What's the point(-to-point)? Man from the outside shares a view

By Linda Fox | February 3, 2014

Enhancements to KDS Neo announced earlier this week will play into the hands of its boss Dean Forbes. Namely the addition of ground transportation because although the KDS chief executive has lived... Read More

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Amadeus acquires UFIS in bid to broaden its airport technology wing

By Kevin May | February 3, 2014

Amadeus has continued its acquisition spree into 2014, snapping up Singapore-based airport technology provider UFIS for an undisclosed fee. IFIS Airport Solutions has a string of technology platfor... Read More

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Time for a rethink: Google Plus is a bigger deal than many think

By PhocusWire | February 2, 2014

SOCIAL: It was so easy to dismiss Google Plus when it didn't seemingly topple Facebook within a micro-second of being launched - it was just a matter of time before it was destined for the same bin... Read More

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Apple - a $3 trillion company?

By PhocusWire | February 1, 2014

DEVICES: The ongoing strategy of Apple to not only reinvent itself every few years, but consumer behaviour and its relationship with technology, has impressed both commentators and investors. Yet wh... Read More

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