StudentUniverse Buys Hostel Booking App WeHostels to Improve on Mobile


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Mobile booking is the way of the future and mobile-only startups with clean designs and fast-moving teams will soon find homes at online booking behemoths that know they need to be on travelers' smartphones in order to survive moving forward.
StudentUniverse announced its acquisition of hostel booking app WeHostels today. The student travel giant plans to keep WeHostels running as a separate app and brand, but will use the mobile acumen of the WeHostels team to improve its own mobile products, WeHostels co-founder and CEO Diego Saez-Gil tells Skift. Although the terms of the deal have not been disclosed, Saez-Gil says it included combination of cash and st