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Cleartrip unlikes Facebook's Internet.org in India

By Martin Cowen | April 17, 2015

Indian OTA Cleartrip has pulled out of internet.org, the Facebook-run initiative designed to make internet access more widely available around the world. Net neutrality campaigners in India have ar... Read More

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What are travellers saying when they use social media at airports? [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | April 17, 2015

Many passengers have their heads buried in a device or laptop as they wander around or wait at an airport. Frequently they are browsing or updating their social media channels - but is it to rant a... Read More

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Yandex makes deeper inroads in travel, unveils package holiday search

By Linda Fox | April 17, 2015

Russian search engine Yandex has launched a service enabling consumers to search for holiday packages from about 14 tour operators. Yandex.Travel draws the domestic and outbound package content fro... Read More

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Time for lots of coffee - THack comes to Seattle

By Kevin May | April 16, 2015

Tnooz is bringing its global hackathon series to the Seattle developer community over the weekend of April 18-19 2015 at Impact Hub. THack @ Seattle is open to individual developers and teams of up... Read More

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Startup pitch: ComboTrip takes on challenge of group planning

By Nick Vivion | April 16, 2015

Today's startup pitch comes to us from ComboTrip, a travel startup targeting the challenging sector that is group travel. While the startup points to the nearly $80 billion group travel market, there... Read More

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Google defence against regulator exposes weak performance of its travel products

By Kevin May | April 16, 2015

Google may have mounted a robust defence of its search practices, but at the same time showed how far it has to go with its travel products. The European Union put forward a so-called "statement of... Read More

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Some lessons learned from user testing hotel websites

By Martin Cowen | April 16, 2015

To highlight how user-testing can be useful in finding opportunities to improve, three of the most popular sites in hospitality were submitted for a Peek User Testing program. NB: This is an analys... Read More

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Ola hails mammoth $400 million funding round

By Martin Cowen | April 16, 2015

India's biggest taxi app Ola has raised $400 million from new and existing investors, and has earmarked $100 million to grow its recently acquired TaxiForSure business. The Series E funding was led... Read More

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Startup pitch: GeoSure aims to crowdsource global travel security data

By Sean O'Neil | April 15, 2015

GeoSure is a new application for Apple devices that is designed to assist travelers by providing quantifiable, personalized travel security content. Think of it as a community-based global travel secu... Read More

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Boxever continues growth with march on US

By Linda Fox | April 15, 2015

Boxever has signed US tour operator InterRail as its first customer in North America. The Dublin-based customer intelligence specialist has been making steady progress in the past year starting wit... Read More

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Addressing the mobile fraud versus convenience conundrum

By Viewpoints | April 15, 2015

Travel has gone mobile. But with new customer channels come new challenges, one of which is eliminating the threat from fraudsters without compromising the convenience expected by mobile travellers.... Read More

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Startup pitch: Qaribu wants to be the go to social online travel agency

By Linda Fox | April 15, 2015

Proving that there may still be life in the social travel concept is Qaribu, a startup which is part trip planning, part online travel agency and part social network. Like others before it, the ide... Read More

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BlaBlaCar consolidates ride-sharing market with Carpooling acquisition

By Kevin May | April 15, 2015

Significant shift in the ride-sharing sector with a deal announced today that will see Carpooling acquired by BlaBlaCar. The pair are talking up their respective positions in the market (second and... Read More

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Baidu building up a taxi-app portfolio

By Martin Cowen | April 14, 2015

Chinese search giant Baidu has invested in another two taxi-sharing apps, Tiantian Yongche and 51yongche. Last December Baidu announced "a strategic investment and co-operation agreement" with Uber... Read More

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Zomato sows $50 million, buys restaurant POS company Maple

By Nick Vivion | April 14, 2015

The Indian restaurant reservation and technology company Zomato has moved into its Series F with $50 million led by Info Edge, along with Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital. The company has also purcha... Read More

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