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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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Startup pitch: Vacation Futures creates the wholesale vacation rental marketplace

By Nick Vivion | January 13, 2014

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Hotel sacks manager for slamming negative reviewers on TripAdvisor

By Kevin May | January 13, 2014

A Scottish hotel has found itself in the limelight after its manager continually turned guests who left damning reviews of the property on TripAdvisor. The Georgian House Hotel in Glasgow, which ha... Read More

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Startup pitch: BeenPod enables sharing and cookie control

By Linda Fox | January 13, 2014

BeenPod has two goals - to create a sociable bookmarking application for small groups to collaborate while enabling them to keep hold of online behavior data. The startup is trying to create a "use... Read More

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Hotel marketing trends - meta, Google Carousel, site speed, and more [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Karthick Prabu | January 13, 2014

Last year saw hotel marketers riding on a number of trends including Facebook Graph Search, Instagram, Twitter and, more importantly, (hopefully) listening to customers. But what are the hotel mark... Read More

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Will Amazon evolve to become the biggest retailer in the world?

By PhocusWire | January 13, 2014

DISTRIBUTION: Ask many ecommerce execs to name a company they admire and Amazon is usually in most folk's top three. It's rapid rise from an online book seller to, well, almost everything else is he... Read More

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Out in the open? Ryanair touts top-secret Google partnership

By Kevin May | January 12, 2014

Nothing like a story about two of the industry's most talked about brands - Ryanair and Google - working together to get people a bit hot under the collar. An interview with Ryanair CEO Michael O'L... Read More

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Wearable technology is an ethical nightmare

By PhocusWire | January 10, 2014

SYSTEMS: Behind all the hype (and genuine interest) in wearable technology is a serious issue surrounding the ability users will have to snap or video any kind of content, at any time. But such is t... Read More

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