Though the U.S. travel industry brings in $2 billion a year and employs 100 million people, Rafat Ali says there’s no one website where industry execs and business travelers can go for information. So he’s launching Skift, a website focused on travel news, data and services. Read more »
Inkling, which started out as an iPad textbook publisher and recently launched an interactive e-book publishing platform called Habitat, is moving further into the consumer realm with a new series of Frommer’s interactive digital travel guides. Read more »
– NBCUniversal: Krishan Bhatia has been promoted to EVP, digital strategy & operations for the Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integra… Read more »
– ESPN: The sports network is seeing a reorg: John Kosner has been promoted to EVP, digital and print media, from SVP and GM of the divisio… Read more »
Dorling Kindersley, the division of Penguin that publishes children, travel and reference titles, made a strong case for how it is moving to… Read more »
Lonely Planet’s new San Francisco-based mobile startup has gone live with its flagship mobile travel guide app Wenzani, which paidContent fi… Read more »
More mobile movements from Facebook today: it has bought the check-in social media service Gowalla, according to a report in CNN. Read more »
Fathom, the travel site launched by two former Daily Candy editors earlier this year, is expanding its commerce side with a shop of travel-t… Read more »
Richard Branson is no stranger to investing in mobile media: among his more notable moves have been establishing *Virgin Mobile* years ago,… Read more »
Location, location, location: it’s the time-honored mantra of real-estate agents and retailers, but could just as well be applied to Google… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Google agreed to pay 33 percent more — $3 billion — than it originally off… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Intel is remaining committed to the MeeGo wireless OS, despite reports that… Read more »
– Starz Digital Media: Mara Winokur is now SVP of digital media, business development and strategy at Starz Media — a position that makes… Read more »
The word “curate” is now entirely overused when it comes to websites, to the point that most people I talk to refuse to use it when referrin… Read more »
Time Out, the listings and guidebook publisher, is upping its digital and social game: it has bought the UK-based semantic analysis company… Read more »
*Google* Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will testify before lawmakers probing the company’s market power on Sept. 21, the search giant conf… Read more »
Just as the warm weather and vacation season begin to kick off in Europe, the European Commission has beamed a light on one of the most expe… Read more »
The Travel Channel is investing in Oyster.com, as part of the hotel review site’s latest funding round. The cable channel tells the New York… Read more »
As AOL’s dismal display revenues appears to have put the worst behind it, the company is refining its ad sales approach in the hopes of deve… Read more »
The reaction to news of the Google-ITA approval has an odd twist: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and some of its fiercest competitors are both crowing… Read more »
Expedia will spin off its TripAdvisor unit as a publicly trading company, a move which will establish the business as the dominant, independ… Read more »
Microsoft’s Bing is turning to Kayak to power one of the most high-profile features on its site. Under an agreement announced today, Kayak “… Read more »
BBC Worldwide may now own all 100 percent of Lonely Planet, but the travel guide’s ultimate flight path is not yet necessarily set out. Read more »
The latest comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) Media Metrix rankings are out and January showed web users thinking about three things in particular: jobs,… Read more »
BBC Worldwide is paying A$67.2m (£42.1m) to acquire the 25% of travel guide publisher Lonely Planet that it does not already own. Read more »
Travel review site TripAdvisor has bought EveryTrail as it continues its mobile push. EveryTrail lets users publish online guides featuring… Read more »
NileGuide is buying larger travel recommendation site 10Best, as it continues to build its reach. 10Best features original articles and revi… Read more »
Google’s bid to acquire travel-search company ITA software is facing a major hurdle, as government lawyers are preparing a lawsuit to block… Read more »
TripIt, a startup that offers mobile and online tools that travelers can use to organize their travel plans, has been sold to Concur for up… Read more »
Not really a surprise, but noteworthy nonetheless: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is joining a growing coalition of companies that are publicly oppo… Read more »
Travel Ad Network has made a small acquisition, as it moves from primarily serving as an ad network for third-party sites to also operating… Read more »
It’s a surprise that every online travel property isn’t already swimming in mobile functionality, given the obvious connection between the t… Read more »
The entertainment industry spent the most on mobile advertising in the third quarter, according to Millennial Media, which reported the top… Read more »
NCR Corp. of Duluth, Ga. has acquired Mobiqa, a provider of mobile tickets, boarding passes, and other typically paper-based items for the t… Read more »
Travel Ad Network, which, as its name implies, runs a travel-focused ad network, has raised $15 million in a third round of funding. The com… Read more »
Verizon Wireless continued releasing a barrage of press releases today at its developer conference in Las Vegas. As part of the onslaught, V… Read more »
Google’s proposed $750 million acquisition of travel search technology provider ITA Software isn’t ready for take off quite yet; Google says… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is making a big move into the travel search vertical, buying ITA Software, a company which provides back-end search and… Read more »
Back in December, travel startup Trazzler told us it had raised $750,000 from an “all-star team of angel investors” — but wouldn’t say who… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has made its second iGoogle-related acquisition in less than a month, buying up small online travel site Ruba, which fea… Read more »
