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Startups

Online Travel

Spindle lets tourists tap into local newsfeeds for a here-and-now snapshot of cities

Spindle is tapping into the power of social content shared directly by businesses to create a city guide that has the potential to become a customized suggestion stream by integrating users' online interests.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 12 years ago

Spindle lets tourists tap into local newsfeeds for a here-and-now snapshot of cities

Airlines

Another travel app tries to ease frequent flyers’ airport woes

iFly Airport Guide may have one of the largest selection of airports, but this thoroughness has come at the price of good design and a smart user experience.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

LivingSocial cuts 10% of workforce but claims travel business “is doing great”

Gutting 10% of the workforce isn't much of a holiday package from LivingSocial. But it does highlight that the winnowing continues in the daily deals sector.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

LivingSocial cuts 10% of workforce but claims travel business “is doing great”

Media and PR

Will any social travel startup survive? It doesn’t look good

The sad fact of most social travel sites is that despite cool design and nice apps, there are plenty of social sites -- Facebook, Pinterest, and, yes, TripAdvisor -- that already did what they're trying to do.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Startup Globa.li tries to take bookings for African hotels and tours into the 21st century

It’s not a new platform that’s needed to take these tourism companies online, but a grassroots efforts to update their technology to process online payments.

Skift | 12 years ago

Startup Globa.li tries to take bookings for African hotels and tours into the 21st century

Ground Transport

Uber aims to become this season’s ultimate stocking stuffer with new ride vouchers

It won’t matter if recipients use the credit or another shuns its services as Silicon Valley shoppers will have already boosted Uber’s December profits by becoming trendy gifters.

Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

Airport car-rental startups challenging business practices of major players

It may be a leap of faith to park your car at the airport and then rent it out while you travel, but car rental startups are at least making a statement that the standard ways of doing business aren't etched in stone -- and 6-page rental agreements.

Skift | 12 years ago

Airport car-rental startups challenging business practices of major players

Online Travel

What happens when your pivot goes horribly wrong?

As a travel-focused startup ourselves, this is tough to watch, but heartening in that the company acknowledged its mistakes quickly and is reacting fast.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 12 years ago

What happens when your pivot goes horribly wrong?

Media and PR

Foursquare needs to decide how to conquer local before investor interest cools

Foursquare is walking a fine line between user engagement and commercialization, and its fate is dependent on this balancing act.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Foursquare needs to decide how to conquer local before investor interest cools

Media and PR

Social travel site Gtrot Boomerangs out of travel for chance to make money

Gtrot is out of "travel" now, joining the ranks of social travel sites that have gone looking in vain for both a revenue model and users.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Social travel site Gtrot Boomerangs out of travel for chance to make money