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A Better Hadoop • Microsoft Cool? • MacBook Pro “Least Repairable Ever” • Apple Kills the GPS • Stiktu: Good or Graffiti? • Troll Repellent • Microsoft Tightens Certificate Security • DOJ Looks at Cable Antitrust • AWS Stores 1 Trillion Objects • Google Blockly • Just One More: Gorgeous Star Trails Big Data gets…
Calling out Google •Hospitality Tech Funding Up • Hilton & OTAs •Big Travel Card Rewards • Google Changes Increase its Revenue & Advertisers’ Costs • Mobile Devices in Hotels • Universal-Disney Reverse Price War •New Airfare Tips •Pretty Travel Pics Calling Google on the Carpet Ex-Orbitz CEO calls out Google. Writing an opinion piece in…
MacBook Pro Screen Gorgeous • iOS 6 Passbook • IPv6 Day • Wattpad Ebook Site raises $17.3M • RebelMouse is You • Silicon Valley Startup Absurdities •Facebook App Center •Big Data on Demand •HipSwap •Next Generation of Search •Windows 8, Google, Facebook and the Innovator’s Dilemma •Ubuntu, meet Azure •Flame Malware “World-Class” • Dish Network…
Not Social 1 & 2 • Online Travel Slowing, not Mobile • Hotel Revenue & Rates Up • Pay More or Less for Travel • No Airbnb! • LinkedIn Cracks • eHarmony Cracks • “Security” Questions • Google Earth 3D • Foursquare • Ray Bradbury Travel It’s not about the Social Online social media advocates…
HotelTonight scores $23M • 10 worst ancillary fees • Hot travel rewards cards • Save on summer airfares • Google warns against hacks • Windows Phone spring thaw? • Smarterer job seekers ditch resumes & take quizzes • Google for all ad sales • Fred Wilson: Facebook value ok • Netflix CDN • Quadcopter jogging…
Concur contract•Google Hotels•GDS & Delta premium economy•iPads make planes light•GoRecess.com•Xbox winning•Facebook IPO fallout•Groupon down•Google Analytics•Microsoft security•Bye bye Blackberry•3D capture & Print•More Travel Our Redmond WA neighbor Concur just won a big government travel and expense contract—up to $1.4B over 15 years. As Tnooz notes, users will be able to import their reservations into Concur’s…
Travelocity losses•Customer friendly ancillary revenue•Selling ads not flights•AI Travel Agents•Fare Calendar•Kayak IPO Delayed•Travel Photos•Windows 8•Facebook Opera•Nook teardown•SpaceX•User-led innovation•Mirror cube treehouse Travel Travelocity losses dragging down parent company Sabre. Some interesting insights, including several years of Travelocity losses, are revealed in a disclosure the privately-held company recently made to investors. Tnooz This article suggests a…
Superfly•Social overhyped?•Gen Z Computer Literacy•Hotel Revenue Management•Stonehenge•Long Haul Flying•Yahoo Browser•HP Layoffs•Apple eBook Suits•Hovercraft Travel Travel startup Superfly is making bold claims. It says that its Big-Data-driven personalization and targeting approach will leave established search companies behind and create value to attract customers and suppliers alike. It’s worth looking at what they’ve done, and it…
Airbnb damage guarantee•Air seating fees•Viral video•Facebook bad press•Googlerola•Flames & Lasers Travel Airbnb’s new “host guarantee” covers damage to hosts’ property up to $1M at no charge. Airbnb started offering $50,000 of property damage coverage following the well-publicized trashing of a host’s apartment last year. While Airbnb’s initial offering was a reactive response to bad situation,…
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