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interactive Mobile @dvertising gets its first funding round
Interactive Mobile @dvertising, which offers GPS-enabled mobile destination guides in partnership with tourism authorities at trade shows, attracted a $500,000 investment from Connecticut Innovations....
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Fodors puts faith in image search for European channel launch
If image-based search is the next big thing, as many might have us believe, then travel guide giant Fodor’s is listening. Borrowing the blanket-of-images approach adopted by the likes of 101Holidays...
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Apple iTravel dream comes another step closer with location app function
The Apple iTravel project appears to be gaining momentum by the day with a new patent filed in the US this week to run an extremely powerful location-based tool. The latest piece of functionality uses...
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Expedia-Google technology guru takes on 3D destination mapping role
Location Location Location isn’t just the name of a second-rate DIY TV show in the UK – it appears to be a growing trend in online travel with one ex-Google and Expedia exec showing why. Paul Onnen has...
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MTrip launches with full suite of travel planning toys for mobile
Augmented reality, trip planning, sharing, GPS and content seem to be the items most of the high-end travel mobile apps are including, with MTrip the latest to join the fray. But as Montreal-based...
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Discover Anywhere launches self-guided mobile tours
Discover Anywhere Mobile, a mobile application developer based in Toronto, Canada, has announced support for a major extension to their mobile destination platform. Known as Discover Anywhere Tours,...
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NileGuide integrates Localyte as travel query model grows
NileGuide has integrated recent acquisition Localyte into its main platform, allowing users to ask questions from companies and individuals in a destination. NileGuide purchased Localyte for an...
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TLabs Showcase – Historvius
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring UK-based cultural travel and trip planning site Historvius. Who and what are you (including personnel and backgrounds)? Historvius maps the historic sites of...
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Top ten tips for creating hotel web content
NB: This is a guest article by Giles Longhurst, director of EMEA for Frommer’s Unlimited, the B2B business of Frommer’s, a branded imprint of Wiley. High-quality, SEO-friendly content can improve much...
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Simonseeks ends operations, cites business model problems
Travel content business Simonseeks will mark almost two years in business by closing down, blaming a lacklustre response from consumers to paying for editorial content. The company today has notified...
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TLabs Reprise – Historvius 12 months on
Historvius is a UK-based cultural travel and trip planning site, which first featured on Tnooz in November 2010 [TLabs Showcase - Historvius]. So what happened in the intervening 12 months? Are you...
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IWannaGoThere puts travellers photos to use via Inspiration tool
IWannaGoThere, the trip planning and destination guide service, has collated its user-generated photography into a tool to help inspire travellers. The Inspiration tool groups photos into a number of...
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TravelAvenue wants to be the Pinterest for travel, with a few twists
Pinterest launched quietly into the world of social networking in 2010, but then made one hell of a thud a year or so later – with obvious ramifications for travel. TravelAvenue has seen this movement...
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Dcovery wants to be the Evernote for travel by organising destination research
Dcovery is a mobile application which helps users organise their travel research. The service, launched yesterday on the App Store, uses its Place Finder technology to scan web pages for mentions of...
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