Successful acquisition? Why Yahoo buying Tumblr fails on four tests

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Yahoo’s decision to buy Tumblr is bad news for Marissa Meyer’s shareholders, because the deal fails the four tests of a successful acquisition.

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MileWise bows out in Yahoo acquisition

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The technology and team behind mileage tracker Milewise will now be a part of the New York-based mobile team of Yahoo.

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Six myths about SEO hoteliers are still believing

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Last week I took an informal survey and asked a group of hoteliers we work with what the top SEO questions they often hear.

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Dark hat SEO and travel: Some insights from Danny Sullivan

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In mid-February, Google seems to have penalized popular UK flower retailer Interflora for questionable search engine optimization (SEO) practices. Is a travel site next?

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The Scan: Cathay Pacific partners with Klout for new “Klout Card” via Passbook, and more news

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Webtrends, Emirates, Netbooster, Gmail, Bescover, RateGain, Trippy, Yahoo, and Airberlin all appear in our roundup of the stories making news and driving opinion on 18 October.

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Destinations, hotels, tours and activities – now groups can vote for their favourite on Facebook

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The winning product in the category for three developers or more at THack @ SFO last week came via Amadeus, using a dizzying array of APIs to create TVote.

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Aah, those were the days – starting an online travel brand in 2002 compared to 2012

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The heady days of 2002, post-economic bubbles and 9/11, pre-Iraq war and the credit crunch. Seems a long time ago, especially in online travel.

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What happens when you apply semantic search technology to hotel websites?

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A hotel is dynamic — a veritable revolving door of people and activities. Yet most hotel websites are dynamic only in the booking process.

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Booking.com and Yahoo up, Stuff down – Top New Zealand websites, February 4 2012

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Travel services from Yahoo in New Zealand and Booking.com increased their respective share of web traffic last week as Stuff lost its second spot.

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Google who? Expedia largest traffic source for Priceline

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Break up Expedia — it may wield too much power over Priceline’s fate.

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