Limos.com to pin hopes on mobile with site and iPhone app
Mobile is changing the ground transportation industry — limos and car services specifically — and Limos.com is poised to get in on the action with its first mobile website and iPhone app. Limos.com,...
View ArticleBnBFinder thinks mobile website and location-based search are inn
BnBFinder introduced a mobile website featuring location-based search for B&Bs, inns and smallish hotels. Location-based search isn’t unique, of course, but BnBFinder claims it is the “first mobile...
View ArticleExpedia, Hotels.com roll out flurry of mobile features
Expedia Inc. was on the move today with four mobile developments: Expedia.com launched its first Android app and upgraded its mobile website, and sister company Hotels.com introduced two new mobile...
View ArticleViator tours go mobile with differentiated iPhone and iPad apps
Viator introduced versions 1.0 of its iPhone and iPad apps, and also did a lot of work behind-the-scenes making changes that users of the iPhone app, in particular, can take advantage of. The Viator...
View ArticleOrbitz and Expedia in competing mobile initiatives
For online travel agencies, it’s all about hotels and mobile — so witness dueling initiatives from Expedia and Orbitz. Expedia announced today that its Expedia Hotels app for iPhone and Android now...
View ArticleGoogle Flight Search optimized for Android and iOS, but most of the world is...
Google has optimized Google Flight Search for Android and iOS mobile devices — before launching international capabilities. Although Jeremy Wertheimer, Google’s vice president, travel, said in November...
View ArticleTravelzoo launches mobile site and Android app — if you come, they will build it
With 17.5% of its global website traffic already coming from mobile browsers, Travelzoo unveiled its first mobile website, in the US, and debuted an Android app, as well. “The mobile website is a big...
View ArticleTop three hotel marketing myths (and the truth behind them)
NB: This is a guest article by John McAuliffe, chief marketing officer at VFM Leonardo. Hoteliers have been marketing their properties on the web for years, but they need to constantly re-think their...
View ArticleMassive changes that could reshape the mobile web
April 3rd was an interesting day in the mobile industry, with major announcements that might re-shape the mobile web. Had these announcements been made two days earlier on April 1, and I might have...
View ArticleWhy we ditched mobile and hitched to tablet
NB: This is a viewpoint from Anshuman Bapna, CEO and co-founder of mygola, a trip planning portal. As a founder who has always thought web-first, building an app for mygola was always going to require...
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