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Sabre's key investors TPG and Silver Lake will sell 20M shares

By Sean O'Neil | February 2, 2015

In recent weeks, Sabre Holdings has seen its stock flirt with its highest prices since its initial public offering in April 2014. It closed today at $20 a share, up from $16. TPG and Silver Lake, w... Read More

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Hopper's new flight search app streamlines discovery of cheap flights

By Nick Vivion | February 2, 2015

After several years in stealth, Hopper launched a little over a year ago with the "world's largest structured database of travel information." The startup quickly discovered soft consumer interest in... Read More

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Android users have little overlap on hotel and airline app usage

By Nick Vivion | February 2, 2015

There is little overlap between airline and hotel usage on Android, according to the latest analysis of user data by Strategy Analytics. The panel of 1,500 users show little overlap when it comes t... Read More

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Zomato logo change hints Urbanspoon brand will be dropped

By Martin Cowen | February 2, 2015

Indian-based restaurant discovery brand Zomato continues its frenetic start to 2015 - buying a site in Turkey and redesigning its logo as part of its plan to absorb recently acquired Urbanspoon. Th... Read More

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TripAdvisor buys ZeTrip, the company behind Rove personal journal app

By Kevin May | February 2, 2015

Another month, another acquisition for TripAdvisor - the travel journal application Rove and its parent company ZeTrip. As is customary for TripAdvisor's continued acquisition strategy, terms of th... Read More

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Revinate raises $15 million in bid to push hotel reputation management

By Kevin May | February 2, 2015

Revinate has secured what is probably the largest capital raise so far for a travel reputation management system - $15.34 million. The round is marginally higher than the $14.5 million the company... Read More

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Facebook and TransferWise - a match made in heaven

By PhocusWire | February 1, 2015

There has been plenty of buzz this week surrounding the $58 million investment in Transferwise.... Read More

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Facebook to offer real-time video ads during Super Bowl

By Nick Vivion | February 1, 2015

Outside of the World Cup and Olympics, the Super Bowl is one of the most watched viewing events on the planet. And given that most people no longer just do one thing at a time, many viewers are also p... Read More

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What are your travel management priorities in 2015?

By Nick Vivion | January 30, 2015

The travel managers over at Carlson Wagonlit Travel compile an annual report analyzing the priorities within the TMC world. Do their priorities reflect yours? The report is an analysis of 1,113 res... Read More

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Tripda raises $11 million to expand further into U.S.

By Nick Vivion | January 30, 2015

Ride sharing platform Tripda has raised a $11 million series A to fund its expansion into North America. Tripda is the long-distance ride sharing service that supplants other ride share venues, suc... Read More

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Size REALLY does matter in travel - welcome to a new era for devices

By Viewpoints | January 30, 2015

No one can escape the rise and rise of mobile and its importance in the travel industry. Tablets, smartphones and, now the hybrid phablets, are taking on PCs' functions from planning a trip to booking... Read More

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Kayak adds Hotel for Tonight tool to app, Cuba to search

By Sean O'Neil | January 30, 2015

HotelTonight's pioneering success with same-day hotel bookings has led a host of copycat products from other companies, including online travel agencies like Priceline and Last Minute Travel and metas... Read More

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MakeMyTrip adds hotels, gains air share, invests in Simplotel

By Martin Cowen | January 29, 2015

Indian OTA MakeMyTrip has talked up its performance in the quarter to end-Dec but this hasn't prevented a big drop in its share price. The figures which seem to matter to the investors - earnings p... Read More

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Some Qantas fliers to get virtual reality headsets

By Sean O'Neil | January 29, 2015

Qantas will soon offer virtual-reality headsets to select first-class passengers to see if they like the devices' three-dimensional spin on in-flight entertainment. The Samsung VR Gear headsets are... Read More

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Profitable KelBillet debuts Gopili multi-modal metasearch in Europe

By Sean O'Neil | January 29, 2015

KelBillet, the French multimodal search engine, has launched a new brand for other European markets: Gopili. The new multi-modal search engine for domestic and short-haul trips in Europe is a more... Read More

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