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Online Travel

Desktop still dominates mobile as travelers' preferred booking platform

It’s not surprising that consumers prefer digitally native booking and review apps to those of airlines and hotels, but online websites remain the most trusted and accessed platform for travelers.

Samantha Shankman | 12 years ago

Airlines

Five best travel ads this week: Awesome, awkward, and award-winning

Samantha Shankman | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Square bets recommendations based on payment data beat Foursquare check-ins anytime

Amazon pioneered e-commerce recommendations like this years ago. That being said, it is logical that Square would leverage its payment data, which show a lot more intent about future purchases than Foursquare's check-ins do.

12 years ago

Airlines

Yahoo in talks to buy travel rewards startup Milewise

Yahoo is hungry to buy small companies and absorb in the talent, unlikely the interest is in building out the Milewise brand and service as a standalone. None of the miles/points startups -- AwardWallet, Traxo, UsingMiles, Superfly -- have broken through yet, and Milewise is in the same general category.

Erin Griffith | 12 years ago

Ground Transport

Hertz turns to hackers to innovate mobile customer service

Hackathons beat sitting around and brainstorming, and Hertz is smart to tap the wisdom of the coders as mobile becomes even more important in the car-rental industry.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Ground Transport

Portable GPS units enlist social media to compete with smartphone navigation

Will drivers want to purchase portable GPS units when they already have navigation apps on their smartphones? Doubt it.

Rich Jaroslovsky | 12 years ago

Ground Transport

Taxi-hailing apps are illegal again in NYC, day after launch

Big stakes game of hide-and-seek in the local taxi business in New York City, with huge entrenched players on one side with some legit demands, pushing against brash upstarts with dreams of disrupting.

Chris Dolmetsch | 12 years ago

Ground Transport

Hailo gets the green light to participate in NYC's e-hail pilot program

Hailo is now the second app with approval to participate in the pilot program, but neither Hailo CEO Jay Bregman nor TechCrunch made note of the startup’s premature launch this weekend.

12 years ago

Airlines

Streaming video on planes: Why the Wi-Fi doesn't work

It's about time someone told the truth about the shoddy quality of onboard Wi-Fi. Too many passengers using it, and you can forget about anything approaching digital normalcy.

12 years ago

Ground Transport

Hailo launched its taxi e-hail app in New York without the city's approval

Hailo can block passengers and drivers for bad behavior, but the question now looms whether the TLC will block Hailo for jumping the gun.

Samantha Shankman | 12 years ago