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Stay.com App Updates Travel

2012-07-12 by Aleksandr Shatskih

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Stay.com, which was named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 50 websites in 2010, offers a new collaborative travel app that allows users to navigate a ‘city in their pocket’ by downloading their own guides for use offline, saving on international data charges. Each combines advice from Stay.com’s international travel experts, partner sites, input from fellow travelers and friends and users’ own preferences. The Stay.com app can be downloaded free from the Apple App Store, Google Play and www.stay.com.

Tags: collaborative travel, geo travel, geo-location, Google Places, GPS functionality, Joachim Paasche, TimeOut, travel apps, travel tools, TripAdvisor

Google Restaurant Finder? Well, Not Quite Yet

2011-09-08 by Phil Butler

Zagat now belongs to Google

Google’s head of Local, Maps and Location Services, Marissa Mayer, just announced the acquisition of Zagat, publisher of worldwide restaurant guides, on the Google blog. Zagat is the entity that produces some of the world’s best printable restaurant guides, and accordingly, the platform will now help refine Google tools like Maps, Places, and Hotspot too, Google’s growing recommendation engine.

Tags: Dealmap, G+, Giza Ventures, Google acquisitions, Google blog, Google Hotspot, Google Maps, Google Places, Google Travel, ITA, Marissa Mayer, Motorola, Stay, Stay.com, travel sites, Yahoo! Local, Zagat

Google + and Really Refined Reviews – Coming Soon

2011-07-23 by Phil Butler

Bring it on Google, bring it on

The suggested Google Travel entity could be just around the corner. According to the news from Tnooz and Kevin May, Google unceremoniously yanked third party reviews from hotels on Google Maps and Google Places, a move May suggests puts Google’s review credibility down there with TripAdvisor’s. But what if?

Tags: Expedia, Google, Google ITA, Google Maps, Google Places, Google reviews, Google Travel, Kayak, Kevin May, Mashable, online travel, reviews, Sabre Group, TechCrunch, Tnooz, travel tools, TripAdvisor

Stay.com Lets Users Roll Their Own Travel

2011-02-21 by Phil Butler

Amsterdam search tool

Norwegian travel startup Stay.com release their version 2.3. As a mid-term development release, what Stay offered up was fairly significant. Stay.com affords users unparalelled tools for building, sharing, and printing their own personal travel literature, and great hotel deals as well.

Tags: Amsterdam Guides, content, Europe travel, Facebook Connect, Google, Google Goggles, Google Maps, Google Places, Joachim Paasche, online travel, original content, OTA's travel, Pamil Visions, Price guarantee, rich content, Stay, Stay's Amsterdam, travel portals, travel tech, TripAdvisor, TripWolf, Twitter, UGC

Cease Fire Called In Online Travel Wars

2011-02-01 by Phil Butler

Google Hotpot

The ceasefire between American Airlines and GDS giant Sabre signals an “all quiet” moment on the front lines of the online travel wars we have been covering. The announcement that the two companies would attempt to resolve their differences out of court, at least until June 1st, calmed the churning business cauldron for online travel for some.

Tags: American Airlines, BIng, Bing travel, Business Travel Coalition, Everything PR News, FairSearch, GDS, Google, Google Android, Google Places, Google Travel, Google Webmaster Guidlines, Hotpot, ITA, Justice Department, Kevin P. Mitchell, Microsoft, online travel, Sabre, SPAM filter, Tavis Hampton, travel supremecy

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