Travel Search Engine SideStep Acquires TripUp Social Network
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What better acquisition for a niche travel search engine company than a niche travel social network?Today SideStep announced that they have done just so with the acquisition of TripUp, a web community based around travel. TripUp is a popular online destination chocked full of user generated travel blogs, photos, videos, maps, and reviews; somewhat similar to [...]
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One of Europe's largest social  networking sites, Passado.com, said on Tuesday it had raised 10  million euros ($13.2 million) as it plans to expand into  Britain, Russia and Italy.
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Plaxo, an early social networking site that helps people keep their address books updated is up for auction, seeking as much as $100 million.
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Mobissimo, Inc. (www.mobissimo.com), the world's most comprehensive travel search engine, and Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the wildly popular personal start page service, announced today that the Mobissimo Travel Search Module is now available to all Netvibes users.
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Blog: As rumored, the two companies have been acquired--not by MySpace, but by the social network
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AOL is teaming with Kayak Software to build a free travel search offering, the company said Friday. Currently in beta, Kayak is the brainchild of the founders of Orbitz, Expedia and Travelocity.
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Blog: Wis.dm launches. Social network site where members ask and answer yes and no questions. Could be useful for market research and targeted advertising.
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Deals.com is a new service which mixes the online coupon clipping services of sites like DealofDay.com or SlickDeals with the social news popularity voting of Digg.com.   I think this is a very intelligent use of a social media offering and probably will expand the Digg.com style platform usage comfort beyond early technology adopters and into [...]
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Travelocity and Expedia don't always find the best airfares, but there's a new breed of travel-search sites on the scene. We review four -- Yahoo FareChase, FareCast, SideStep and Kayak -- and find that one does significantly better in finding the lowest fares.
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The white label search provider JumpTap signed a seven country deal with the mobile conglomerate TeliaSonera.
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Digg.com founder Kevin Rose tells of new enhancements at his social
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Company partners with Kayak Software with aim to complement the burgeoning online travel sales market.
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The blog network, which began as a single celebrity gossip property and has since expanded to a whole set of women's lifestyle titles, has acquired social shopping site ShopStyle.
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InfoWorld - The Web 2.0-social networking phenomenon's seemingly irresistible force field has ensnared yet another niche: travel.
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Travelocity takes off as its parent gets bought out.
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Multiple firms including Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group have bid for Sabre Holdings , owner of the Travelocity Web site, according to a source familiar with the situation.
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Social  networking Web sites have fired up industry deal headlines the  past couple of years -- from News Corp.&#39;s ground-breaking  acquisition of MySpace to the recent purchases by the Walt  Disney Co. and Viacom Inc.&#39;s Logo network of Club Penguin and  DowneLink.com, respectively.