Joseph Tartakoff
Apr 7, 2011 4:53 PM
Expedia will spin off its TripAdvisor unit as a publicly trading company, a move which will establish the business as the dominant, independent online travel media company. TripAdvisor is best known for its flagship TripAdvisor travel reviews site, which attracts more than 50 million unique visitors a month, but it…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Feb 3, 2011 12:30 PM
Travel review site TripAdvisor has bought EveryTrail as it continues its mobile push. EveryTrail lets users publish online guides featuring a map of a trip directly from their phones; the map is automatically created based on the phone’s GPS coordinates, while photos taken with the phone can be automatically plotted…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Jul 1, 2008 9:32 AM
TripAdvisor, the travel review site owned by Expedia, has made two acquisitions: VirtualTourist, a user-gen travel site, and OneTime, a travel comparison site. Both were founded by J.R. Johnson and operate out of Manhattan Beach, CA. Terms of the acquisitions were not disclosed. VirtualTourist is a pretty similar concept to…
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