Skyscanner Acquires Mobile Developer in Bid to Improve Hotel Booking
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Online travel companies are hungry for mobile talent as the Skyscanner's Distinction acquisition highlights. Look for Skyscanner to expand direct bookings in its apps and on the Web, as competitors are doing.
Skyscanner acquired Budapest-based mobile developer Distinction and its 30 employees as the flight -- and recently hotel -- metasearch site tries to ramp up its mobile presence, including by branching out into hotels in a more serious way.
Distinction has worked on developing Skyscanner's apps over the last three years, and Skyscanner, broadening its business, recently a
