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Amex App To Offer Mobile Restaurant Booking For Platinum Cardholders
Amex App To Offer Mobile Restaurant Booking For Platinum Cardholders
November 25, 2019  |  Mobile

American Express has announced that it is launching a new restaurant booking tool in the Amex mobile app. The new feature will allow Platinum Card...

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UK’s Duffel Lands $30M To Connect Airlines With Travel Agents
UK’s Duffel Lands $30M To Connect Airlines With Travel Agents
October 29, 2019  |  Investments

U.K. startup Duffel announced that it has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round. Index Ventures, as well as existing investors Benchmark and...

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How Digital Platforms Tackle Luxury Travel Reservations, Payments
How Digital Platforms Tackle Luxury Travel Reservations, Payments
September 30, 2019  |  Retail

Luxury travelers may trade the typical beach vacation or amusement park trip for more exotic and adventurous destinations, such as Costa Rica or Naples, Italy....

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Why Treehouses Rule The Airbnb Roost
Why Treehouses Rule The Airbnb Roost
September 21, 2019  |  Retail

Pop quiz: When you read the words “most popular Airbnb listing in history,” what is the first thought that pops into your mind? Maybe something painfully...

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CellPoint Mobile Rebrands As CellPoint Digital To Power Travel Payments
CellPoint Mobile Rebrands As CellPoint Digital To Power Travel Payments
September 03, 2019  |  Omnicommerce

CellPoint Mobile, which specializes in digital commerce and payment solutions for airlines and travel companies, today rebranded as CellPoint Digital with a new website and...

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Google’s Latest Travel Move Could Boost Contextual Commerce
Google’s Latest Travel Move Could Boost Contextual Commerce
August 09, 2019  |  Retail

Make room for more contextual commerce and more retail innovation in the travel sector. That’s the view from one of Google’s latest retail-associated launches, an airfare insight...

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OpenTable Moves Into Delivery — Why — And Why Now?
OpenTable Moves Into Delivery — Why — And Why Now?
August 01, 2019  |  Omnicommerce

For an entire generation of consumers, booking a restaurant by telephone is as foreign an activity as using a rotary phone or creating a document...

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OpenTable Gets Into Food Delivery
OpenTable Gets Into Food Delivery
July 24, 2019  |  Delivery

OpenTable, an online restaurant reservation company, has partnered with Caviar, Grubhub and Uber Eats to provide delivery from restaurants all over the country, according to...

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Amazon India Now Sells Airline Tickets
Amazon India Now Sells Airline Tickets
May 17, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Amazon Pay in India, which already allows customers to do things like pay bills and borrow money, has added the ability to book airline tickets,...

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