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Startup pitch: SavvyMob last-minute hotel booking on mobiles to India

By Karthick Prabu | July 22, 2014

Here comes the start of last-minute mobile hotel bookings in India, a trend which SavvyMob hopes to spearhead. The Bangalore-based startup was founded in April this year by Bikram S Sohal (CEO and... Read More

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KLM launches 24/7 customer service for LinkedIn

By Karthick Prabu | July 22, 2014

KLM, the airline credited by many for spearheading the use of social media in aviation, has launched yet another service. Now the carrier will be helping its LinkedIn followers with any of their tr... Read More

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More hotels adopt Intelity's white-label apps

By Sean O'Neil | July 21, 2014

In the past month, hotel apps have been in the spotlight. Technology firm CheckMate touted its white-label booking tool, while on-demand booking startup Hotel Tonight prototyped a mobile check-in conc... Read More

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Marketing watch: Viral videos capture spend and Facebook ads across devices

By Nick Vivion | July 21, 2014

Viral video spend is set to increase and Facebook will soon track users across devices to deliver a seamless ad experience. Advertisers spending more on viral videos TalentPartners released the... Read More

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How Big Data helped Germany win the World Cup

By PhocusWire | July 21, 2014

SYSTEMS: Travel brands are forever being told that Big Data (or, at the very least the way brands dissect their existing data) should be some of strategic pillar. Sadly some of the best use cases so... Read More

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Intent Media closes $22.7 million Series C to drive intent marketing

By Nick Vivion | July 21, 2014

Intent Media, a marketing intelligence solutions provider focused on the travel industry, has closed $22.7 million in Series C. The round was led by NYC-based Insight Venture Partners, with additio... Read More

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Complexity and openness - why big IT vendors are missing from travel technology

By Viewpoints | July 21, 2014

Consumers have always shopped around for the best deal on travel and vacations. The Internet simply arms the travel customer with the ultimate weapon for bargain-hunting. In an online travel market... Read More

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Free for a while - Streetview guides by OTAs in prime spot on Google Maps

By Kevin May | July 21, 2014

Hotels have been recording Google Streetview walk-throughs for a while now - it makes marketing sense as a cool showcase of a property. It's not a cheap exercise, inevitably - hotels have to work w... Read More

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Finnair lambasted online after mistakenly saying it doesn't fly over Ukraine

By Nick Vivion | July 18, 2014

Social media is a consistently perilous environment for businesses - something Finnair was reminded of today after claiming not to fly over Ukraine. The airline had taken to its Twitter account fol... Read More

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Metasurge: How to navigate the growth in metasearch for hotel brands

By Nick Vivion | July 18, 2014

L2 Thinktank has applied its marketing intelligence brain to metasearch, coming up with an overview of the state of metasearch. The focus is on how hotel brands can leverage metasearch to enjoy an adv... Read More

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Why are internet years like dog years?

By PhocusWire | July 18, 2014

STARTUPS: Lastminute.com was the European poster-child for the tech rush of the late-1990s/early-2000s. It feels an age away now (in web generation terms it probably is), so it is interesting, 14 ye... Read More

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How a thorn-in-the-side of the industry is crunching data to plan ahead

By Karthick Prabu | July 18, 2014

Uber is currently launching in roughly two to three cities, helped not least by its recent $1.2 billion investment at a $18 billion valuation. Behind the scenes, Uber is also heavily crunching its... Read More

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Travel agent marketplace TravelTriangle raises $1.7 million

By Karthick Prabu | July 18, 2014

India-based online marketplace for travel agents, TravelTriangle, has raised pre-series A investment of $1.7 million from SAIF Partners. The company (TLabs showcase) is planning to use the new fund... Read More

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Momondo ponders future direction after acquisition interest

By Kevin May | July 18, 2014

Momondo Group has confirmed it is looking at strategic options in order to "drive forward to the next stage". The company, which has the Momondo metasearch and deals platform Cheapflights in its po... Read More

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Hard Rock, JetBlue, and Texas Tourism tap Olapic to filter the Instagram firehose

By Sean O'Neil | July 17, 2014

Users of Instagram, the image-sharing platform, have tagged 14 million photos with the #vacation hashtag -- a number that's grown by 4 million since the start of the year, according to digital service... Read More

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