In travel shopping, forget the Customer Is King mantra – caching is the new monarch

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First generation caches were about cutting cost – and travel sellers tolerated low levels of accuracy to make savings.

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Travel industry should go back to its innovative digital roots, act like Amazon and Apple instead

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Travel was the engine that drove the first wave of ecommerce. Travel made ecommerce a star, as the online travel landscape – and far beyond – was transformed.

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After early hype and a quiet year, Everbread says it has something baking in Singapore

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The London-based startup that has developed an innovative B2B airfare-shopping engine, has completed a raise and is now shifting its focus to Asia, where it’s had success with Aussie OTA Jetabroad.

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The Scan: Fun facts from Europe’s NOAH Conference and more travel tech news

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Our roundup of the short news items driving opinion on 6 November.

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THack @ WIT Singapore – high commended, gamification, creativity and more

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What can a single developer pull together with a handful of APIs, a creative mind and a touch of tongue-in-check? Yes, it’s the Traveling Gnome (not the roaming kind!).

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A one-click business trip and friendly reviews via Facebook win THack @ WIT Singapore

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More creativity and masses of hard work from developers as a teams from Skyscanner and Flocations brought a new idea to planning business trips and also capturing the best travel reviews.

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DataArt hacks away to bend your trip into something new

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One of the participants at last week’s THack @ SFO was DataArt, pulling together APIs from Vayant, Travelport and LocalGuiding to create BendMyTrip.

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The Scan: TourWrist’s iPhone 5 panos, VRMA evolves and more news

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Anywayanyday.com, VRMA, Vayant, Inntopia, and TourWrist all make our roundup of the stories making news and driving opinion on 25 September.

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Throwing voice search into the mix to get flight, hotel and rail results

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Voice search, to some extent, is still in its relative infancy in the travel industry despite the buzz around Apple’s Siri and the voice recognition capabilities of Google Android.

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Vayant goes sub-second with new flight search technology

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Airfare shopping specialist Vayant Travel Technologies is claiming sub-second search results via its FastSearch solution, unveiled at Travel Technology Europe this week

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