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What's pushing people to purchase on social media [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Linda Fox | December 18, 2012

Lots of talk in recent months about purchasing via social networks, f-commerce and whether is will... Read More

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LocalMind purchase next step on Airbnb's path to local domination

By Nick Vivion | December 17, 2012

Montreal-based Localmind has announced that it has been acquired by Airbnb last week, the second... Read More

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Google may drop screen scraping of TripAdvisor and Yelp content to get government off its back

By Sean O'Neil | December 17, 2012

US regulators may end their antitrust investigation of Google’s search business by letting the company... Read More

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The social foundation: How social proof increases clickthrough on search

By Nick Vivion | December 14, 2012

Word-of-mouth has always been one of the most powerful - and valuable - forms of marketing, and the... Read More

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Get inspired by this month's best travel videos, as picked by Vimeo

By Sean O'Neil | December 14, 2012

Chicago, Guangzhou, the USA, Hong Kong, Iceland, and International Banana Museum are all stars in the... Read More

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Lessons for mobile app developers on why Google Maps for iPhone looks so good

By Sean O'Neil | December 14, 2012

A round-up of frustration detection, user prompts, and other techniques for getting people to like... Read More

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Big data - where it's coming from, where it's headed [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Linda Fox | December 13, 2012

We've had the articles on the value of big data for the travel industry and some questioning methods... Read More

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OTAs outshine metasearch sites in sending traffic to air and hotel suppliers, says study

By Sean O'Neil | December 13, 2012

In the past year, traffic to metasearch sites spiked 13%, yet metasearch sites are managing only to... Read More

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Tight grip: TripAdvisor maintains hold on reviews, doubling offsite views each month

By Nick Vivion | December 13, 2012

TripAdvisor continues to dominate the travel review game: in a little over a year, the company has... Read More

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Experience Flight brings sky-high tours and activities back down to earth

By Sean O'Neil | December 13, 2012

Australia's Experience Flight is a portal for tours-and-activities that are in the sky, from joy rides... Read More

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