Google pulled the trigger on about 20 acquisitions in the past year and, before it buys a company, the search-engine leader does its homework about each company’s engineering talent, intellectual property and price.
Google-ITA Software deal: Engineering talent, intellectual property, price
July 16, 2010 By 3 Comments
Google likes click to call mobile ads — STA Travel, Liberty Travel, Carnival Cruise Lines try them out
July 16, 2010 By 4 Comments
If your company wants to increase click-through rates in mobile advertising on Google, inserting a click-to-call option and/or displaying a local address are providing substantial upticks.
BBC to integrate Lonely Planet content on new global website
July 16, 2010 By 6 Comments
Fans of the BBC around the world – but not the UK – will see an overhauled website in the coming months, complete with a new travel section courtesy of Lonely Planet.
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Top ten ways to be successful with online Lead Generation in travel
July 16, 2010 By 6 Comments
If you’re wondering if you should try lead generation to get new customers or if you’ve tried lead generation and failed, read on.
TLabs Showcase – iNNtelligenz
July 16, 2010 By 3 Comments
TLabs Showcase focus on startups featuring UK-based iNNtelligenz.
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Bing Travel introduces Flight Summary with savings options
July 15, 2010 By 3 Comments
Bing Travel quietly introduced a Your Flight Summary feature, which provides consumers with savings options if they add a stop or alter their travel dates.
Community building — TravelPost launches Travel Discussions
July 15, 2010 By 4 Comments
The new owners of TravelPost introduced Travel Discussions in a private beta as a means of building a dynamic community and learning more about what the site’s users want.
Kayak tests placing private-sale hotels into search results, collects booking details
July 15, 2010 By 4 Comments
Kayak began testing the placement of Private Sale banner ads on top of its core hotel-search results in select markets and, unlike other metasearch websites, Kayak collects the booking details from the consumer when Kayak sources the hotel deal.
