Travel Technology

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Media and PR

Foursquare maps four years of users' travels with new History feature

A number of young travel startups just groaned in frustration as Foursquare rolled out the trip visualization feature they’ve built a company around; Foursquare has enough data to make feature an insightful travel tool for its more dedicated users.

John McDermott | 12 years ago

Hotels

No one will ever miss the hotel phone

The physical phones will stay in the hotel rooms, but only as customer service intercom. Now if some hotel's bold enough to strip away rest of the functions and make these machines usable again....

Rafat Ali | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Yelp updates Nearby feature to suggest businesses based on location, user data

Yelp promises that Nearby is “just the beginning” as it goes head-on with Foursquare to offer mobile location-based searches that are useful to travelers in most major global cities.

12 years ago

Online Travel

Google buys traffic maps app Waze for $1.1 billion, to keep it separate

In this new world, multi-brand strategy is clearly how big Internet companies want to operate, partly to not mess with the DNA of the startups they're buying.

Rafat Ali | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Taiwan offers free Wi-Fi to all foreign tourists

Taiwan’s move is great for tourists and should set a precedent for other countries looking to attract visitors. Look to other countries rolling out Wi-Fi service that enables visitors to check email or get basic information about the destination in their own language.

Rafat Ali | 12 years ago

Airlines

Gogo's IPO back on track, expects to raise around $170 million

Rafat Ali | 12 years ago

Hotels

Five travel startups walk the line between imitation and inspiration

Samantha Shankman | 12 years ago

Online Travel

About one-third of U.S. households now own a tablet

While ownership rise is good news for the digital ecosystem, so far tablets have been optional devices and better metric to find out is usage of the device and apps on it. Especially in travel sector, beyond the booking apps, it is likely to be very low.

12 years ago

Online Travel

Four things Apple absolutely must do to fix its maps in iOS7

Tech pundits are calling this Apple WWDC a do-or-die for the future of the company, but we really want to know if the company will get its act together on maps for the iPhone.

Jason Clampet | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Report: Google will buy Waze mapping and navigation service for $1.3 billion

If accurate, it's good news for Waze. Especially since the app's appetite for data and battery power has become a turn off for many of the early adopters.

Hagai Golan and Tzahi Hoffman | 12 years ago