What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 4 July to Saturday 10 July 2010:
Story of the week:
Top most commented articles:
- Are travel writers shills for the cruise lines?
- Three quarters of consumers use Google Suggest to begin their travel search
- Everbread secures funding in region of $85M from Bessemer Venture Partners
Controversial article of the week:
Google-ITA Software latest:
- Google-ITA Software deal: Part of recent Google shopping behavior
- Google-ITA Software deal: Google expects Justice Department will handle inquiry
- Google-ITA Software deal: Justice Department silent on antitrust
TLabs:
- Students create handy mash up of travel content from Twitter, Flickr and others
- TLabs Showcase – Wazzamba
- TLabs Showcase – Vayant
- TLabs Showcase – TourRadar
- TLabs Showcase – TripTwit
Stats:
- Most popular UK travel websites – July 3 2010
- Most popular US travel websites – July 3 2010
- Most popular France travel websites – July 3 2010
- Most popular Canada travel websites – July 3 2010
- Most popular Singapore travel websites – July 3 2010
- Most popular New Zealand travel websites – July 3 2010
- Most popular Australia travel websites – July 3 2010
And the rest (most recent first):
- GDS Bitesize – service news, agreements, products from Amadeus, Travelport and Sabre
- The Lebron James hunt — and the travel angle
- American Airlines to begin distribution of optional services exclusively through Farelogix
- BMI bans competitors and swearing on site Twitter feed, everything else goes
- Thomas Cook will use Travelport for new European online travel agency, sorry Amadeus
- EasyJet tantalising close with Facebook bookings, but still not there
- Facebook goes talent shopping, acquires assets of travel recommendation site Nextstop
- American Airlines proceeds with plans for HP Jetstream reservations system
- Continental-Travelport extension — Will 2011 airline distribution talks be a tame affair?
- Man who used Twitter to travel the world goes Old School, writes a book
- TrekAmerica creates spin-off social network, claims a revolution
- TripAdvisor turns into Cannes Lions with advertising competition
- Sabre acquires flight crew management solution
- Mishandled baggage — Netanyahu’s bodyguards add to American Airlines statistics
- Volaris signs Accertify for online travel fraud protection
- Discover Anywhere launches self-guided mobile tours
- Travelport unveils major airfare partnership for Russia
- Thelma and Louise female social travel site finds a new road
- Fly.com launches multi-city search, mulls national TV advertising campaign
- Travelzoo changing of the guard — Chris Loughlin becomes CEO
- New chief marketing officer at Orbitz is algorithmic kind of guy
- Amadeus to trial new ancillary services platform through CorsairFly
- Sunshine.co.uk continues travel domain land grab, secures top Spain URL
- Lufthansa Systems gets a new CEO but challenges remain
Last Week in Travel Tech:
Notices:
- Calling all travel entrepreneurs: Tnooz and WIT unite for Singapore Bootcamp
- Explore the Tnooz TSoftware store
- Node biographies and articles
- Tnooz on a Map
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