Articles tagged “funding”

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Bus Booking Platform Busbud Raises $9 Million to Expand

Busbud sets itself apart from other bus travel startups in both the breadth of its inventory and the markets it is going after, especially South America where bus travel is more common than the U.S.
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Hotel Concierge App Alice Secures $1.3 Million in Funding

For hotels that don't have the resources to develop their own apps, the Alice hotel app and concierge service, and others like it, could be a useful solution for making concierge services more mobile-oriented.
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Turnkey Vacation Rentals Secures Additional $3 Million in Funding

As vacation home rentals and apartment rentals go more mainstream, you can expect more vacation rental management companies, broadly similar to Turnkey Vacation Rentals, to emerge as owners seek to make the hosting process more efficient and less of a hassle.
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Hipmunk Raises $20 Million in Funding But It May Not Be Enough

Hipmunk is hoping that the funding will help it avoid the fate of Room 77, which also struggled to break out of the pack, and withdrew. Hipmunk is going to keep at it for awhile, but it has a tough road ahead of it given well-funded competitors such as Kayak, TripAdvisor, Google, and Trivago.
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Vacation Rental Site Tripping Secures Series A Funding

Metasearch has plenty of potential and hard work to do in vacation rentals as the wide swath of owners and other hosts are really just beginning to come online. Tripping could be part of the next generation of such metasearch sites.
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ReviewPro Does Layoffs While Trying to Raise $10 Million

Reputation management firms such as ReviewPro are evolving into being more than reputation management firms as the competition heats up. One of the key issues for hotels is that many of these tools aren't truly global, failing to tie into Chinese social networks, for example, and working only in a limited number of languages.