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Tnooz loves analogies. But here is a grim one: running a travel startup could be compared to the making of Apocalypse Now, the seminal 1979 film about the Vietnam war.... Read More

Wego has made a strategic investment in Indonesian startup Valadoo in a bid to consolidate its position in the country and expand the travel deal site elsewhere.... Read More

Fresh from launching and then extending its social media-led Meet & Seat platform, KLM is turning to some of the Holland's high profile celebrities to promote the service.... Read More

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Women power can be powerful financially.... Read More

The US Justice Department Antitrust Division's probe of the global distribution systems is apparently alive and well -- and travel agencies in North America apparently are getting dragged right into the middle of the fray.... Read More

Mark this down on your calendars: Fly.com now says its new Custom Fare Calendar is a travel industry first because it sources real-time fare data while competitors' fare calendars rely on user searches.... Read More

Temporarily, anyway. Ryanair made a big thing in late-2011 about its attempts to crack down on metasearch engines scraping content to fill their search results for airlines.... Read More

Destinology targets social, GoCarShare tunes up for festivals, CarTrawler grabs two new senior hires, Multicom loves Medhotels, WHL creates joint venture with ResOnline... What else is happening in travel tech around the world.... Read More

The heady days of 2002, post-economic bubbles and 9/11, pre-Iraq war and the credit crunch. Seems a long time ago, especially in online travel.... Read More

Dix points (10 points) for Azerbaijan Airlines this week as it introduces mobile and web check-in ahead of the influx expected for the Eurovision Song Contest tomorrow in host town Baku... Read More

TaxiForSure.com, a car rental and taxi aggregator operating in Bangalore, India, raised venture capital funding from Accel Partners, Helion Venture Partners and Blume Ventures.... Read More

If you want to book a nearby hotel using the Kayak app for Kindle Fire, location-based services certainly would come in handy.... Read More

Airlines deliberately make it difficult for you to find the best airfare.... Read More

Scandinavian Airline System is to go live on OpenJaw's t-Retail system at the end of June for its Swedish, Danish and Norwegian websites... Read More