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Updated: TripAdvisor confirms buying Jetsetter, will remain separate brand
DigitalTripAdvisor has finally made the announcement: It has acquired hotel private and retail sales service Jetsetter, from the Gilt Groupe. The Jetsetter brand will continue to operate out of New York City and will be incorporated into TripAdvisor’s Smarter Travel Media. Skift broke the news last month that Tripadvisor was close to buying the site, after months of [...]
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Hotel search site Room 77 gets its CEO: Jetsetter founder Drew Patterson
DigitalAfter a several-month CEO search, the heavily-funded hotel search startup Room 77 has its first official CEO: Jetsetter co-founder and CEO Drew Patterson. A surprise pick, Patterson left flash-sales site Jetsetter amidst controversy 10 months ago and in the interim co-founded a hotel and mobile software startup, CheckMate.io, which is still at a very early stage. As [...]
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Jetsetter sale finally nearing completion, announcement expected next week
DigitalGilt Groupe’s flash deals and hotel booking site Jetsetter has found a home and the announcement will come as soon as next week, ending a months-long search to find a buyer, Skift has learned. The most likely buyer is Tripadvisor, our sources indicate, though we have not been able to definitively confirm that. Over the last few months, we [...]
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Gilt selling Jetsetter because there’s no clear path for growth under it
DigitalJetsetter isn’t failing like some of Gilt’s other properties that have….[Gilt CEO Kevin] Ryan explains that.. there was always a possibility of selling the travel site or finding a partner. That’s why the travel sales site was created as a separate company. And now Gilt is looking to sell Jetsetter…“There’s no clear path to doubling [...]
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Could Travelzoo scratch its booking site itch by making merger magic with Jetsetter?
DigitalWith the twin revelations that hotel-site Jetsetter is up for sale while Travelzoo is negotiating to acquire an unidentified hotel-booking site, does a merger of the two make any sense? There’s an argument to be made that a Travelzoo acquisitiion of Jetsetter, owned by Gilt Groupe, would benefit all concerned, although there are other hotel-booking site [...]
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Gilt puts luxury travel site Jetsetter up for sale
DigitalFashion and flash sales company Gilt has puts its luxury travel flash sales site Jetsetter up for sale, and is looking for as much as $100 million for it, according to a story in WSJ, though that may be hoping for too much. Our sources have confirmed the sales process, and among the media companies that have been approached [...]
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Tonight-only hotel deals start a smartphone app arms race, but who does it best?
DigitalWith smartphones in hand, today’s travelers are staying in the moment — and booking hotel rooms at the last minute for the same evening. 2012 may go down as the year of the same-day, tonight-only hotel booking via smartphones and tablets as a bevy of travel sites, including Hotel Tonight, Priceline, Travelocity, and Jetsetter, now [...]
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Jetsetter adds same-day hotel bookings to its iPhone app — minus the flash sales
DigitalJetsetter joined the crowd and began offering same-day hotel bookings through its updated iPhone app. The New York-based startup pledges that the Jetsetter Now feature within its iPhone app will give users discounts of up to 60% off published rates for Jetsetter-Verified hotels — properties that have been reviewed and curated by Jetsetter personnel — [...]
