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Is Frommer’s Remix the way to go for travel guides?
Never a dull moment in travel guidebook publishing – with the so-called traditional folk (still?) figuring out how to make digital work and a plethora of web startups trying to get traction. But,...
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What Else? Tourism Australia, TripIt, Avis, Thailand, Aruba
What else is going on in the world of travel tech? A round-up of other stories from across the industry? Tourism Australia is opening up aboriginal culture, tours and experiences via a new website. The...
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How TripAdvisor off-shoot Tingo could change travel AND retail forever
NB: This is a guest article by Matt Weisberger, chief operating officer of Travel Spike. The wrong industry is paying attention to Tingo, the recent side project from TripAdvisor which is gaining...
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Utrip wants to resurrect the online trip planning experience
Trip planners were all the rage a few years ago, with many a travel startup pitching session or innovation showcase seeing at least one newbie playing its hand. But while the plethora of daily and...
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What Else? Berlin Airport wifi, TripIt new apps, Reevoo board, Flip.to hotel
What else is going on in the world of travel tech? A round-up of other stories from across the industry… Berlin Brandenberg Airport finally has something to celebrate with the announcement of Boingo...
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WorldMate upgrades its itinerary management app with hotel booking suggestions
Last week, WorldMate, a maker of itinerary-management apps, debuted a major upgrade to its free and paid apps for iPhone and Android. Key new features include automatic suggestions of hotels a user may...
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Google introduces flight tracking system in search results, using your...
By special invitation only at the moment, but Google is testing a new service which integrates content from a user’s Gmail account when they perform queries in natural search. So what, you might say....
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WorldMate adds hotel price alerts to its trip-management iPhone app
Since last week, a leading app for managing business trips, WorldMate, has added hotel price alerts to its app for free and paid iPhone apps. After a customer stores a hotel booking in their WorldMate...
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The Scan: Airbus is testing runway catapults to help airplanes take off, and...
Airbus aims to copy a technique used by aircraft carriers to launch fighter jets off short runways, and more items in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion on 7 September....
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Business travellers love apps for maps and social media but shun the...
Business travellers appear to be using mobile applications for pretty much the same as their jetsetting leisure counterparts rather than the vast array of tools their employers would perhaps like. A...
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WorldMate mobile trip manager sells to Carlson Wagonlit
Big move in the world of trip planning and travel management with business travel system provider Carlson Wagonlit expected to announce the acquisition of WorldMate. Neither organisation will confirm...
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Concur invests $2M in voice tech tool Evature, first startup on receiving end...
Israel-based Evature is the first recipient of an new programme created by travel and expense technology company Concur to invest in startups. The voice technology startup – creator of the EVA (Expert...
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The most popular air travel apps by actual iPhone usage
App makers like to tout how many times their software has been downloaded because it’s the only number that never goes down. But the real question is consumer take-up, meaning, how often air travellers...
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GateGuru iPhone app adds same-day booking for car rentals and TripIt-like...
It’s been three years since the GateGuruapp first launched as “Yelp for airports,” a mobile app for navigating airport terminals with maps and user-generated ratings of services. This afternoon, its...
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Managing travel itineraries: Easier said then done even with digital tools
NB: This article is a continuation of our TCritic series, where reviewers from across the industry cast their eye across products, services and software. The author is Mark Peacock, of Travel Commons....
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Concur leads $9 million investment round in Nor1′s upsell technology
Nor1, the provider of upsell technologies to the hotel industry, has closed a Series B round of $9 million led by Seattle-based Concur. Nor1′s technology focuses on increasing revenue for hotels...
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Google tests hotel reservation tracking in its search results, using your...
Google is testing a new function that automatically crawls a Gmail user’s in-box to fetch hotel reservation confirmation e-mails and then spotlight those confirmations in natural search results when...
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JetZet adds a layer of social networking to itinerary management
JetZet was founded in late 2011 with the mission to make life easier for frequent travelers. The New York City company allows users to organize plans in one place, manage relationships on the go, and...
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Closing in on the perfect trip – soothing the nightmare or pipe dream
When Concur unveiled the extension of ground transportation via GroundScope to Europe this week inevitable talk around its Perfect Trip initiative ensued. The project is certainly ideological and a...
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Concur continues spending spree, acquires ConTgo for location-based services
Concur has acquired mobile specialist ConTgo with terms of the deal undisclosed. The travel and expense technology specialist says the acquistion takes it a further step towards its vision of the...
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