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Alexa is a window on the next wave of travel tech

By Kevin May | January 20, 2016

Conceptual technologies have a tendency to polarise opinion as to their worth, not least with the recent emergence of the Amazon Echo voice recognition system. Lampooned in some quarters as being a Read More

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Skyscanner has travel management in its sights with TravelPro

By Kevin May | January 18, 2016

Travel search engine Skyscanner has turned its attention to the corporate travel world, claiming a new tool "bids farewell to expensive travel agents". The TravelPro service acts like a business tr Read More

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Skyscanner captures new funding round of $192 million

By Kevin May | January 11, 2016

Five new organisations have become investors to the tune of $192 million in Skyscanner, giving it a valuation said to be in the region of $1.6 billion. The new investment round comes from global fu Read More

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Skyscanner adds white-label car rental search, Mundi is first taker

By Sean O'Neil | January 7, 2016

Skyscanner, the Edinburgh-based metasearch giant, has begun to offer a white-labeled version of its car rental search product through its trade division, Skyscanner for Business. The search tool co Read More

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Momondo Group puts faith in cuddly approach to metasearch

By Kevin May | January 6, 2016

Momondo Group is celebrating what it claims is a milestone for its Cheapflights brand - half a million visits in a single day. The company says it achieved the accolade across desktop, mobile and a Read More

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Top10 falls out of the charts and into an early grave

By Kevin May | December 24, 2015

No Christmas number one for Top10, the well-funded online hotel search provider, after confirming that it has closed down after four years of operations. The UK_based startup used review scores, lo Read More

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Yahoo Japan makes huge travel play with $830m Ikyu move

By Martin Cowen | December 15, 2015

Yahoo Japan continues to build up its travel business, agreeing a massive takeover of Japanese travel, hotel and leisure business Ikyu Corp. Reports say that Yahoo Japan will spend up to $830 mill Read More

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Skyscanner's CEO on selling BA upgrades via NDC

By Sean O'Neil | November 20, 2015

Today Skyscanner and British Airways began trial sales of seat upgrades using IATA's New Distribution Capability (NDC) standards. British Airways is the first global airline to sell seats directly Read More

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Skyscanner to provide voice flight search for Amazon Echo

By Kevin May | November 3, 2015

Skyscanner is to be the first travel search provider to integrate with Amazon's Echo system, allowing people to find flights using just their voice. The technology works by connecting the Skyscanne Read More

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Free APIs that travel startups should consider when building any search product

By Sean O'Neil | October 26, 2015

Many startups have joined the list of hundreds of companies that use data feeds from Skyscanner, the UK-based metasearch giant. Skyscanner, which says it has more than 50 million unique monthly vi Read More

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Airlines warned giving Google any data will ensure you're hostage to it for life

By Kevin May | October 12, 2015

It's almost remarkable that over five years have now passed since Google made its first significant foray into the travel industry. Google had, lest we forget, been working "within" travel for year Read More

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Escapio switches to hotel metasearch: Will small OTAs follow?

By Sean O'Neil | October 8, 2015

Escapio, a Berlin-based online travel agency (OTA), has switched to metasearch model for a curated list of luxury and design hotels. The revamped Escapio showcases at launch 6,000 "unique" hotels, Read More

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Startup pitch: Seeusoon wants to cure the headache of group trip planning

By Linda Fox | October 1, 2015

When you work or study abroad, getting together with friends and family in one place at the same time can be challenging. After participating, and being a runner up, in a TechCrunch hackathon in Lo Read More

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Regulator closes hotel booking probe, claims not a high priority

By Kevin May | September 17, 2015

A British competition watchdog has dropped an investigation into hotel booking rate discount, claiming a "restriction on administrative priority grounds". The Competition and Markets Authority was Read More

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Gatwick Airport - a distribution disruptor?

By Martin Cowen | September 15, 2015

"World-first" is an overused phrase in travel technology, but Gatwick Airport, of all places, has made such a claim around a service which allows "connecting flights between low cost and full service Read More

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