Articles tagged “funding”

HotelTonight's success to date is validation of at least two things: Going mobile-only from day one, and focusing on just one thing, hotels.

eLong is putting its money, specifically $100 million of it, precisely where the company believes its future is, in mobile hotel technology. This initiative has certain parallels with what Concur is doing in using its own, larger investment fund, to encourage the development of travel startups doing interesting things.

Airline employees and their families have access to seats that aren’t shown on Kayak and Priceline, making ID90T a valuable source for a very specific type of travel search. It’s current customer base and funding indicates the platform will continue to penetrate the 22 million-strong market.

QuickMobile has found itself a lucrative niche, and is clearly in expansion mode.

This shouldn’t be a conversation of whether Amtrak receives funding, but how that funding should be spent as the U.S. continues to fall behind its peers in high-speed infrastructure.

Uber is undoubtedly growing quickly and won a small victory with approval to operate in NYC, which appears to be enough work without raising a new round of funding, for now.

Frequent travelers have plenty of incentive to earn miles through Rocketmiles, but the startup will have to expand its hotel options and offer a cleaner experience than its competitor for sustainable growth.

Vacation rental managers and owners certainly need effective online distribution, and this is a growing market, which is great for Evolve's evolution.

Apple's Passbook service has seen mixed pickup since June 2012 launch, but long term mobile becoming a omnibus wallet is where it is going. Passkit is heavily dependent on consumer adoption of Passbook and similar services.

Pinterest is now valued at $2.5 billion, but it seems like its buzz factor in travel has toned down over the last year or so.