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Google-ITA Software deal: Google quietly adds new rival to travel ecosystem...
When the Google-ITA Software deal was announced last week the search giant produced a handy diagram of how it views the travel ecosystem. Sitting alongside ITA Software, which it intends to buy, were...
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Bitter row breaks out as Vayant alleges copyright infringement by Everbread
Get ready for an angry battle between two emerging companies, Vayant and Everbread, in the online airfare shopping and pricing arena. Vayant, and companies associated with it, sent a letter July 16 to...
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Amadeus — New kid on the fares block?
Amadeus has started to roll out its new fare and pricing tools. This includes several components: Basic Fare Storage; Fare Quotation, Pricing Engine; Fare-based results search; and Fare+Availability...
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Frontier, Everbread, Vayant join Open Axis — ITA Software on the sidelines
Month-old standards body Open Axis Group picked up Frontier Airlines as a full member and air-search vendors Everbread and Vayant Travel Technologies as allied members — but ITA Software is looking on...
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Amadeus seeks to move in on ITA Software turf — US market
With many U.S. metasearch and online players mulling their air search options in light of the pending Google acquisition of ITA Software, Amadeus is negotiating with U.S. airlines in a bid to gain...
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Everbread announces trio of clients for Haystack product
Ever since Google surprised many and named flight search technology startup Everbread as part of the infamous travel ecosystem, the company has attracted lots of attention. Thrust perhaps a bit too...
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Travel Guard and Vayant develop travel insurance for split tickets
If the next stage in airfare bargain hunting is split tickets, then Travel Guard and Vayant Travel Technologies are working on getting a travel insurance product in place that would cover tickets on...
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Vayant wins funding round, appoints new CEO
Flight search and pricing platform Vayant has appointed ex-Fly.com boss Brian Clark as its new CEO at the same time as announcing a new funding round. The run of news is bolstered by an agreement...
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Vayant upgrades system, brings real-time to prime time
Vayant is stepping up its attempts to muscle in on the world of airfare shopping technology with a major enhancement to the core service. The company is releasing what it calls version 2.0 of of the...
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Peace in our time: Vayant and Everbread settle long-running dispute
A bitter row between airfare shopping technology startups Vayant and Everbread, which ended up in the courts, is over – with a settlement agreed last week. Details of the settlement were not...
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Vayant goes sub-second with new flight search technology
Airfare shopping specialist Vayant Travel Technologies is claiming sub-second search results via its FastSearch solution, unveiled at Travel Technology Europe this week. Vayant believes the solution,...
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Throwing voice search into the mix to get flight, hotel and rail results
Voice search, to some extent, is still in its relative infancy in the travel industry despite the buzz around Apple‘s Siri and the voice recognition capabilities of Google Android. While a full blown...
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The Scan: TourWrist’s iPhone 5 panos, VRMA evolves and more news
Anywayanyday.com, VRMA, Vayant, Inntopia, and TourWrist all make our roundup of the stories making news and driving opinion on 25 September. TourWrist app integrated with iPhone 5 panoramic camera...
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DataArt hacks away to bend your trip into something new
One of the participants at last week’s THack @ SFO was DataArt, pulling together APIs from Vayant, Travelport and LocalGuiding to create BendMyTrip. Other APIs used in the hack came from Rome2Rio and...
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A one-click business trip and friendly reviews via Facebook win THack @ WIT...
More creativity and masses of hard work from developers as a teams from Skyscanner and Flocations brought a new idea to planning business trips and also capturing the best travel reviews. The two teams...
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THack @ WIT Singapore – high commended, gamification, creativity and more
What can a single developer pull together with a handful of APIs, a creative mind and a touch of tongue-in-check? Yes, it’s the Traveling Gnome (not the roaming kind!). Developer Alexey Abolmasov, a...
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The Scan: Fun facts from Europe’s NOAH Conference and more travel tech news
Facebook, Onetwotrip, Vayant, Gogobot, Priceline, Future Travel Experience and Boingo all get mentioned in our roundup of the short news items driving opinion on 6 November. CONFERENCES AND EXPOS...
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After early hype and a quiet year, Everbread says it has something baking in...
After two years, Everbread, a UK and Bulgaria-based startup that sells a much-hyped B2B airfare-shopping engine, recently closed its latest round of institutional fund raising. It will be shifting its...
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Travel industry should go back to its innovative digital roots, act like...
NB: This is a guest article by Eric Dumas, CEO of Vayant Travel Technologies. Travel was the engine that drove the first wave of ecommerce. Travel made ecommerce a star, as the online travel landscape...
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In travel shopping, forget the Customer Is King mantra – caching is the new...
NB: This is a viewpoint from Boyan Manev, director of business development and product marketing at Vayant Travel Technologies. First generation caches were about cutting cost – and travel sellers...
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