Tag: TRIPADVISOR

TripAdvisor, the popular travel planning tool, has just launched an app for Windows Phone 7. Just like the mobile website, the app allows you to search for anything travel-related -- from hotels and flights to restaurants and points-of-interest to visit once you reach your destination. Geolocation is supported, which allows TripAdvisor to quickly locate places nearby. But while that's a neat ...

In an interesting and slightly inexplicable move, TripAdvisor has blocked Google Places from using its massive wealth of hotel and resort reviews. Now, when you search for hotels on Google, and browse around Google Maps, you will no longer see snippets from TripAdvisor. Given Google's recent spate of Places updates, this is either a very bold or very brash move from TripAdvisor. Hotel owners ...

UPDATE - It seems that TripAdvisor did not purchase the 'Where Ive been' Facebook application. So are we officially in a bubble again? TripAdvisor, the travel review site, just dropped $3 million for a Facebook application called "Where I've Been" that plots where people have been on their journies. Sure its fun to see where friends have been, but was it necessary to buy an application that's ...