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SilverRail nabs most of Linkon, the Swedish train booker
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SilverRail nabs most of Linkon, the Swedish train booker
By Sean O'Neil | January 12, 2015
SilverRail Technologies, a business-to-business platform for train ticketing, has acquired 75% of Linkon (pronounced "link on"), which powers the online retailing of Swedish trains. The 110-employe... Read More
RelayRides revs up car-sharing, fueled by $52M in financing to date
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RelayRides revs up car-sharing, fueled by $52M in financing to date
By Sean O'Neil | January 12, 2015
RelayRides, a marketplace connecting car owners with car renters, is having a good trip, says CEO Andre Haddad. Haddad describes 2014 as a breakthrough year for his company, which booked three time... Read More
India's Zomato targets Yelp with purchase of Urbanspoon
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India's Zomato targets Yelp with purchase of Urbanspoon
By Nick Vivion | January 12, 2015
Zomato is a restaurant-focused startup that was founded in India in 2008. Since then, the company has expanded steadily throughout the world - except for the United States. This is rapidly changing... Read More
Facebook still king of popular kids on social media, with highest engagement
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Facebook still king of popular kids on social media, with highest engagement
By Nick Vivion | January 12, 2015
Much has been made about the impending demise of Facebook, most especially when considering the platform's waning popularity among teenage users. The stats related to the network's slowing user gro... Read More
Happy maps - charting more than just an A to B experience
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Happy maps - charting more than just an A to B experience
By Linda Fox | January 12, 2015
Out with cars and concrete buildings and in with public spaces and Victorian houses - that's what researchers at Yahoo Labs would have us believe when it comes to navigating a city. Based on the pr... Read More
Airbnb ecosystem expands to include hosts-hosting-hosts service
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Airbnb ecosystem expands to include hosts-hosting-hosts service
By Nick Vivion | January 12, 2015
The continued success of sharing economy companies such as Airbnb and HomeAway has led to a wholesale shift in city economics as more residents rent accommodation to visitors. And just as the pressure... Read More
The war on wifi: Hotels need to stop fighting the future
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The war on wifi: Hotels need to stop fighting the future
By Viewpoints | January 12, 2015
Despite unprecedented growth in recent years, hotels have forgotten what every Stan Lee fan already knows: with great power comes great responsibility. As we all know now, one of the leaders of the... Read More
Messaging services are killing SMS, but what comes next?
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Messaging services are killing SMS, but what comes next?
By PhocusWire | January 12, 2015
WhatsApp revealed last week that it now has more than 700 million monthly users.... Read More
Why people abandon a travel booking online [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Why people abandon a travel booking online [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Kevin May | January 12, 2015
It varies between sectors and types of users, but conversion rates for those making a travel booking are generally low - often in the single digit percentage range. But why do so many consumers who... Read More
Line integrates taxi app into messaging platform in Japan
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Line integrates taxi app into messaging platform in Japan
By Martin Cowen | January 11, 2015
Line, the Japanese messaging service, has launched Line Taxi as a product which works entirely within a users' existing account. The tech set-up is similar to other taxi-app services, other than th... Read More
Accor Hotels: How it's adapting to mobile
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Accor Hotels: How it's adapting to mobile
By Sean O'Neil | January 9, 2015
Last October, Accor Hotels unveiled its five-year, 225 million euro plan for "reinventing the customer experience through technology." (See Tnooz's coverage.) For an update, Tnooz spoke with a few... Read More
New drone footage marketplace makes it simple to snag aerial views
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New drone footage marketplace makes it simple to snag aerial views
By Nick Vivion | January 9, 2015
Smart travel marketers value captivating content - and drones generally offer a fresh perspective that engages uses while also showing a useful overview of a particular location. However, it's not... Read More
Marketing watch: Digital marketing trends for 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Marketing watch: Digital marketing trends for 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Nick Vivion | January 9, 2015
The new year begins well-intentioned on the marketing front. Marketing plans, heavily crafted and finessed late in 2014, begin to be implemented - only to discover that the landscape has already shift... Read More
Uber points at media as it clarifies China ban confusion
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Uber points at media as it clarifies China ban confusion
By Martin Cowen | January 9, 2015
Uber has issued a statement in response to "some misunderstanding among international media" which led to a number of reports saying that Uber had been banned in China. In a statement released in r... Read More
How teenagers view social media (written by an actual teenager)
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How teenagers view social media (written by an actual teenager)
By PhocusWire | January 9, 2015
I read technology articles quite often and see plenty of authors attempt to dissect or describe the teenage audience, especially in regards to social media.... Read More
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