With the volume of travel APIs that exist out there, it’s hard to know what might best enhance user experience and/or add value
Google tests hotel reservation tracking in its search results, using your booking e-mails
December 22, 2012 By 3 Comments
A search of a Gmail user’s in-box will fetch hotel reservation confirmations and then spotlight those confirmation e-mails in natural search results when the user runs an ordinary Google.com search on a phrase like “my reservations.”
The Scan: Kayak booms, United’s systems fail again, Ryanair wins in court, and more news
November 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Ryanair, FlightStats, Kayak, Superfly, Vayama, Onefinestay, Cheap Tickets, Los Angeles Tourism, Jetpac, Facebook, Small Luxury Hotels of the World, all get mentioned in our roundup of the short news items driving opinion on 15 November.
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The Scan: TripAdvisor tests running on the cloud (AWS), and more travel tech news
October 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
TripAdvisor, Amazon Web Services, Facebook, FlightStats, masFlight, FCm Travel Solutions, and GVN and all appear in our roundup of the stories making news and driving opinion on 12 October.
Google introduces flight tracking system in search results, using your booking emails
August 10, 2012 By 6 Comments
By special invitation only at the moment, but Google is testing a new service which integrates content from a user’s Gmail account when they perform queries in natural search.
FlightStats and Innovata combine flight updates and new schedules API
March 19, 2012 By 1 Comment
Developers of mobile apps in travel and airport kiosks can now do some one-stop shopping for flight schedules and flight status updates thanks to a new API from FlightStats and Innovata.
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