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Top ten iPhone apps for business travelers
DigitalTravel is high-tech – especially for business travellers who need to stay in touch with the office and keep communications secure. An iPhone or iPad can be a handy tool to finding your way around an unfamiliar city, but now it can also be used to check in at your hotel – as our feature [...]
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TripIt reveals preferred seat tracker details for TripIt Pro subscribers
TransportTripIt made good on its pledge and released a Seat Tracker feature in its premium TripIt Pro product. Subscribers to the $49 per year TripIt Pro service can share their itineraries, identify their seat preferences (window or aisle, front or back of cabin, exit row or bulkhead), and then Seat Tracker alerts travelers when a [...]
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TripIt will soon find users better seats, but are the app’s best days behind it?
TransportTripIt is in the final stages of launching a Seat Tracker tool for users of its premium service, TripIt Pro, Skift has learned. A little more than two years after Concur acquired TripIt for $120 million, the popular itinerary management service finds itself at a crossroads, and Barry Padgett, Concur’s executive vice president of traveler [...]
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Hotwire and TripIt co-founder Brockway launches furniture marketplace
DigitalAt least the used furniture will be traveling. Gregg Brockway, the co-founder of successful startups Hotwire (sold to Expedia) and TripIt (bought by Concur) has co-founded with his wife, Anna Brockway, Chairish, a marketplace to sell and buy used furniture. Consumers shop online from a “curated selection of fabulous pre-owned home furnishings. Sellers can list [...]
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TripIt users play it safe by booking major hotels brands in U.S. cities
DigitalWhat…do we know about the Top 12 hotels in the USA booked by TripIt’s smartphone-reliant users? They’re all affiliated with big brands, with Marriott and Hilton accounting for eight of the 12 properties. They travel to big cities, with San Francisco and New York accounting for eight of the 12. They like staying in central [...]
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TripIt users to get hotel upgrade offers thanks to parent company’s new investment
DigitalA $9 million Concur investment in Nor1 means that business travelers using Concur’s TripIt apps will be getting hotel upgrade offers from properties, including Hilton, Hyatt, Carlson Rezidor, InterContinental and Kimpton Hotels. Concur makes a habit of investing in travel startups with its $150 million Concur Perfect Trip Fund, and this is Concur’s first investment [...]
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United Airlines blocks access to TripIt and joins ranks of mileage-tracking holdouts
DigitalTripIt informed subscribers to its TripItPro mileage-tracking service that they would no longer be able to keep a tallies of their United MileagePlus frequent flyer accounts starting December 11. United Airlines thus joins the ranks of American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Southwest Airlines in refusing to let certain third-party mileage tracking sites from accessing members’ [...]
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TripIt parent Concur launches $150 million investment fund for business travel startups
DigitalConcur, the travel and expense management solutions giant and parent of trip itinerary service TripIt has a new $150 million fund, called “Concur Perfect Trip Fund” to invest in startups in the travel industry, focused primarily on solutions for business travelers. As part of this strategy, Concur recently invested in Evature, developer of an Expert [...]
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WorldMate bought by Carlson Wagonlit for about $20 million
DigitalMega travel management company Carlson Wagonlit Travel has agreed to acquire itinerary management service WorldMate for around $20 million, Skift has learned. A spokesperson for CWT said an official announcement could come today or tomorrow and a WorldMate spokesperson declined to comment.
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TripIt streamlines itinerary design for nimble user experience
DigitalTripIt redesigned the “look and feel” of travelers’ itineraries on TripIt.com to provide for a streamlined user experience. One of the key changes is that instead of defaulting to include details such as connecting flight information, length of layover, aircraft type, number of miles and booking information, users can toggle between “More Info” to show [...]
