The second wave of Internet-era travel companies has captured the attention of venture capitalists.
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Expedia acquires Pillow and ApartmentJet to conquer the short-term rental market
Travel booking site Expedia wants to better compete with Airbnb.
View More Expedia acquires Pillow and ApartmentJet to conquer the short-term rental marketTravelPerk grabs $44M to take its pain-free SaaS for business travel global
Only six months ago Barcelona-based TravelPerk bagged a $21M Series B, off the back of strong momentum for a software as a service platform designed to take a Slack-like chunk out of the administrative tedium of arranging and expensing work trips. Today the founders’ smiles are firmly back in place: TravelPerk has announced a $44M Series […]
View More TravelPerk grabs $44M to take its pain-free SaaS for business travel globalThree Indonesian tech unicorns unite to back digital insurance startup
It’s almost unheard of to see three unicorns join forces to fund a startup, but that’s exactly what has happened in Indonesia. Ride-hailing company Go-Jek, e-commerce firm Tokopedia and travel booking startup Traveloka — each of which is valued in the billions of U.S. dollars — have come together to provide a Series A funding […]
View More Three Indonesian tech unicorns unite to back digital insurance startupSeattle’s new venture firm, Flying Fish, holds a first close on its targeted $80 million fund
The founding partners of the new Seattle-based venture firm Flying Fish met as angel investors deploying capital in the talent-heavy, cash-light region around Amazon and Microsoft’s corporate headquarters. “We’ve underperformed relative to the talent pool,” is how Heather Redman, one of the firm’s three founding partners describes the region. Well, now Flying Fish has held […]
View More Seattle’s new venture firm, Flying Fish, holds a first close on its targeted $80 million fundOur digital future will be shaped by increasingly mobile technologies coming from China
Since the dawn of the internet, the titans of this industry have fought to win the “starting point” – the place that users start their online experiences. In other words, the place where they begin “browsing”. The advent of the dial up era had America Online mailing a CD to every home in America, which […]
View More Our digital future will be shaped by increasingly mobile technologies coming from ChinaHackers gain access to 880K credit cards from Orbitz customers
Another day, another breach. Today, online travel agency Orbitz disclosed that hackers managed to get both credit card data and personal information (though no Social Security numbers and passwords) from users who made their travel purchases on the site between January 1, 2016 and December 22, 2017. In total, the company says, that’s about 880,000 […]
View More Hackers gain access to 880K credit cards from Orbitz customers