Vacation rental service HomeAway has doubled-down on content, reviews and recommendations for its guests by leading a $20 million Series C investment round in social review engine Gogobot.
Since 2005, CEO Barrie Seidenberg has led Viator, a tours-and-activities marketplace, that has been relatively selective in the products it lists.
Alipay, the payment affiliate of Alibaba Group, announced a tie-up with U.S. flash sale e-retailer Gilt which will add Alipay ePass as a checkout option, making it easier for consumers in China to shop for top designer brands.
At some point or other, most of us will have heard that mobile is just another channel. Yet many now see it as much more than that.
Qunar has announced it will introduce a RMB1 billion incubation fund to support OTA startups, via its cloud-based open platform.
Net revenues increased by 85.6% to RMB1.31 billion and mobile traffic contributed over 50% of total online traffic and 35% of total orders in the third quarter of 2014.
Today’s connected technologies are more than just smartphones, laptops and tablets.
Tunui has provided a total of RMB1.3 billion in funds to support its SME suppliers, 85% more than the RMB700 million provided in the same period last year.