Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may be about to make its entry into the travel search market — but not quite in the way people expected. Rather than bu… Read more »
Travel search engine Kayak has sold hotel information site TravelPost to an online travel startup founded by several former Expedia employee… Read more »
TripIt, which offers a series of online tools that travelers can use to organize their travel plans, has raised $7 million in a funding roun… Read more »
EveryScape, which provides “eye-level” images of major towns and cities around the world, has raised $6 million in a third round of funding.… Read more »
Travel site Trazzler has raised $750,000 in funding, according to an SEC filing. The company features short recommendations of things to do… Read more »
Back in mid-September, Oyster Hotel Reviews said it was on track to become the largest travel media outlet in the U.S. by staffers by year-e… Read more »
Panraven, a startup which offers an online “story-telling” service, has raised $2.725 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. The co… Read more »
Lots of activity in China’s burgeoning online travel industry. Travel search engine Qunar has raised $15 million in funding in a round led b… Read more »
Everlater, a startup that lets users set up online travel scrapbooks, has raised a first round of funding led by Highway 12 Ventures; the co… Read more »
Hoping to tap into the booming Chinese tourism market, Expedia-owned travel review site TripAdvisor is making a big push in the country. Tri… Read more »
With ski season just ahead, discount ski ticketing site Liftopia has raised $1 million in a second round of funding led by former Expedia CE… Read more »
Oyster.com — a three-month-old hotel reviews site — has raised $4 million in funding from Bain Capital. Oyster has a staff of 20 reporters… Read more »
By Kevin Anderson: After a little more than two years as The BBC’sexecutive product manager for audiovisual products, James Cridland is leav… Read more »
Ticket search engine FanSnap has raised $5 million from Highland Capital Partners. Via its search engine — which exited beta testing in Mar… Read more »
Leading financial comparison site Moneysupermarket.com saw its Jan-to-June operating profits fall 89 percent from last year to £1.4 million… Read more »
– Sport sells Front: Daily Sport publisher Sport Media Group has sold lads’ mag Front for just £87,500 to start-up Kane Limited, just 14 m… Read more »
On the way to making Moneysupermarket.com the leading financial comparison site, founder Simon Nixon reaped £126 million by selling shares… Read more »
A rash of new iPhone apps…
– Dopplr: The business travel social net has taken its Social Atlas to the iPhone, price free, putting it up… Read more »
Unlikely as it may seem, Sweden’s Global Gaming Factory wants to buy The Pirate Bay for SEK60 million (£4.7 million). At the MusExpo Europe… Read more »
Simon Nixon, who built Moneysupermarket.com in to a £840 million financial services empire, is returning to the start-up fold with Simonsee… Read more »
