Tablets replacing paper menus in restaurants – a long-term trend or too problematic?

Tablet Based Menu In Restaurant

Traditionally, restaurants had their menus in paper/booklet form. In the early mobile revolution from 2004 to 2008, some restaurants gave waiters a mobile with a custom app loaded in it for taking orders from customers.

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Qunar overtakes Ctrip as China’s biggest travel site, booming on mobile sales

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Yesterday, Baidu, China’s largest search engine, trumpeted the astonishing growth of its travel site Qunar, which in the fourth quarter became China’s largest internet retailer of airline tickets — overtaking Ctrip, the dominant OTA.

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Kayak IPOs today at $1 billion valuation, analysts make predictions about future

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Kayak is finally floating its initial public offering (IPO) today, but some analysts think it faces rough waters ahead.

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Will Priceline come back to the field?

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Among the three U.S.-based public company online travel agencies — Expedia, Priceline and Orbitz Worldwide — Jake Fuller sees Expedia and Orbitz closing the gap a bit on a global basis with “outperformer” Priceline in 2010.

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