Trippy secures $1.75 million seed funding...
Trippy, an offering which is being described as the first web and mobile app entirely designed to let your friends help plan your trip, has raised $1.75M in seed funding. Co-leading the round are Sequoia Capital and True Ventures. Also...
New foursquare site lays huge emphasis on discovery...
foursquare.com has introduced a new version of its website, laying “huge emphasis on discovery”. One of the main features now is a big map on the top, which shows everything interesting nearby – your friends, places that are trending (in...
Half of consumers don’t want to be bothered in social networks: global report...
Businesses are wasting time and money trying to reach people online without realising many resent big brands invading their social networks, according to findings from a global study initiated by TNS. TNS’s Digital Life study, which is about how more...
Offering personalised travel guide based on friends’ experiences...
The list of new ventures that are focusing on improving the trip planning process by shaping up holidays based on friends’ content and recommendations continues to get longer. A new venture, Jetpac, which is focusing on creating personalised travel tips...
Adapting to Google’s “most-impactful algorithmic change to date”...
The online travel industry is rapidly evolving with the demands of today’s travellers. Travel marketers should expect that when potential guests visit their website, they may be landing on various pages based on their searches and are often coming loaded...
“The renaissance of rail is truly underway”...
A pan-European rail passenger survey has highlighted that the opportunity for rail is clear as 77 percent of those surveyed would choose to catch an international high speed train instead of taking another means of transport, if the cost is...
Android OS accounted for 52.5pc of smartphone sales in Q3...
The Android OS accounted for 52.5 percent of smartphone sales to end users in the third quarter of 2011, more than doubling its market share from the third quarter of 2010, according to Gartner. Android benefited from more mass-market offerings,...
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