PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2019

Uber is trying to reassure its customers before a tell-all book about the company is released. There has been some good news for the rideshare giant: Last week Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that Uber will receive $24 million from the state to establish a new U.S. The company said the Aug.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Booking Holdings , the world’s largest online travel company, continues to feel the weight of the pandemic, warning investors Thursday (Nov. Booking Holdings, parent company of Booking.com, Kayak, Priceline, OpenTable and other online-reservation brands, said gross bookings fell 47 percent in the third quarter from year-ago levels.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

PYMNTS reported that bookings in general in the U.S. Joseph DiTomaso , CEO of AllTheRooms, said it “really looks like individuals and families [are] choosing to get away from densely populated areas and wait out the virus,” CNBC reported. were up in May this year for Airbnb and other companies like Expedia.

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JUNE 22, 2020

Still, the Airbnb chief also made clear that he’s not ready to firmly commit to taking the San Francisco-based company public this year, even after a sharp rise in bookings over the last few weeks as stir-crazy consumers have begun to venture out of their homes after months of coronavirus restrictions.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

We are expecting our biggest Christmas ever, and with the ability to process up to 60,000 book sales a day, we will be able to satisfy more customers,” Booktopia CEO Tony Nash told reporters after ringing the opening bell at the stock exchange in Sydney Thursday. Booktopia currently has about a 6 percent share of Australian book sales, a $2.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

China’s largest ridehailing app Didi Chuxing is breaking into the hotel booking business. The news comes as the company tries to recover from two highly publicized murders of female passengers by drivers on its platform, according to reports. In addition, Didi customers can book hotels through Booking.com and its sister site Agoda.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2018

As a first for its Prime membership service, Amazon has unveiled a subscription service for children’s books. Through the program, customers will be able to purchase age-appropriate boxes of books picked out by Amazon’s team of editors, TechCrunch reported. based Prime members, in 2016.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

based Booking Holdings amid a strategic partnership. With the tie-up, users of Booking Holdings’ apps will be able to call for Grab vehicles, while users of Grab’s app will able to book travel services, Reuters reported. Southeast Asia’s Grab has taken in a $200 million investment from U.S.-based

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

A startup with a plan to take on Amazon in the world of digital book sales might at first seem, well, a little crazy. Books were where Amazon got its first toehold into American consumers’ lives, and the idea that an upstart could step onto their home field and snag a win is tough to believe.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

American Express has announced that it is launching a new restaurant booking tool in the Amex mobile app. Launched in 2014, Resy features a suite of table management, CRM and booking technology for restaurants. The rollout comes after American Express acquired the Resy reservation platform. cities, and seats more than 2.6

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2020

One solution to the pandemic’s destruction of the travel industry, according to Glenn Fogel of Bookings Holdings , could be for the government to start subsidizing peoples’ vacations. Fogel predicts that travel and tourism will be some of the last recovering facets of the pandemic’s multi-armed attack against the economy.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

Deem , which works in mobile and cloud technology, has launched corporate travel booking software Deem Rise, according to a press release. According to the release, the new preferred rates through Rise will help SMBs negotiate with suppliers for better rates.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2019

To help define travel for the next generation of adventurers, Porter & Sail is combining discovery and booking it leans toward full-platform experiences. While it may not be feasible to travel too far, that adventurer can book a trip to Miami, Nashville or Montréal. The Booking Experience.

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Chris Skinner

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Back on January 2, 2018, with more news about my new book coming out in March, Digital Human. A few comments: “Skinner presents a compelling vision of the future of financial services expertly set in ten-thousand years … The post Happy holidays and one last piece of 2017 news appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

The airline industry could be showing some signs of life as the airlines report slower ticket cancellations and more bookings on some routes. The airline will have a $20 billion daily cash burn per day, it reported, according to the news service.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Amazon customers in India can now book movie tickets on its app or website through a partnership with BookMyShow , Economic Times (ET) reported on Saturday (Nov. mobile site and book tickets from a movie tickets tab under the ‘shop by’ option on Amazon Pay.

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AUGUST 18, 2019

billion in total booking value, a 31 percent boost from the previous year. Sources told The Wall Street Journal that the home rentals company booked 91 million nights on its platform in the quarter. Airbnb reported strong first quarter results, with $9.4 In addition, Airbnb had about $3.5

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Amazon is facing backlash from hundreds of antiquarian book dealers across 24 countries who are vowing to pull books off a website owned by Amazon for a week in protest of a move by the website to ban sellers from specific countries around the globe. With little in the way of recourse, the booksellers decided to launch the protest.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

That idea gradually morphed into Roost, which allows consumers to book a hotel and find a roommate. The concept was mainly for music festivals and events – places where lots of younger, open-minded people are traveling on the same dates. The Platform. Travelers start by visiting the Roost site, which displays events and cities.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Comic books (along with their more sophisticated cousins, graphic novels) are treated not only as literature these days by fans and many scholars, but they also have a firm place in U.S. Now comes a comic book contribution to one of the most vexing and vital issues of modern payments and commerce — fraud prevention and ID compliance.

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MAY 14, 2020

This time, the French government said, it plans to team up with the country’s tourism industry to build an internet site whose ultimate goal is to grab customers away from the likes of Airbnb and Booking Holdings. Airbnb charges up to 20 percent on rentals — and its bookings in France have been rising.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

Hopper has announced that more than 270,000 hotels in over 200 countries and territories across 1,600 major cities are now available to book directly through the app. The new search function allows you to enter a city, neighborhood, or even points of interest. Do you always book hotels with pools?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The PYMNTS Weekender is here to catch you up on the latest news at the end of another busy work week. Apple is still the most valuable company in the nation, but it’s worth $430 billion less than it was two months ago – primarily, analysts say, because of concerns that the new iPhones arrived too late, per news on Nov.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2018

He turned to the internet, but he couldn’t find a place to book spaces online. As a result, he came to understand the experience of booking meeting spaces offline: It’s hardly a hassle-free experience and can involve calling an individual property. That’s hardly the easiest or safest way to book a space for an event.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

It will handle bookings, give answers right away when a customer asks a question, and it will also be able to remind customers when they need to re-book. We’re pleased to welcome the Presence AI team and their booking technology to Groupon,” said Groupon Chief Product Officer Sarah Butterfass.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In another case, Roost allows travelers to book hotels and find roommates. Users have the ability to chat directly with potential roommates and to send and receive payments using the in-app messaging feature. By tapping into behavioral information, Badi can provide “more quality connections between renter and seeker,” per the company.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2018

As of yesterday, Amazon has opened up its Prime Book Box service for kids ages 0-12 nationwide. For the bargain price of $22.99, Amazon will send along a box containing a selection of children’s books — parents can chose to have that box show up once a month, bi-monthly or once a quarter. “As a Prime Book Box customer.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

To prevent so-called “party house” violence, Airbnb has begun restricting some bookings in Canada from renters under the age of 25. The move comes after several bookings off the popular rental service have ended in violence; the most recent incident was last week in Toronto that left three dead.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

Having $1 billion in bookings and more than 200 destinations globally – those are big numbers, to be sure, but these are not stats gleaned from an airline. Sequoia and Goldman are returning investors, and new backers seen in this funding round include Boyu Capital, based in China, and Technology Crossover Ventures. and Europe yet.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2018

Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing has received $500 million in funding from Booking Holdings. dollars on its balance sheet after it raised $4 billion in new capital late last year. In addition, Didi customers can book hotels through Booking.com and its sister site Agoda.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

As it seeks to speed up its eCommerce expansion, China’s Xiaohongshu or “Little Red Book” is seeking new funding. The news comes after Meilishuo, which means “Beauty Talk” in Chinese, was hoping to raise $300 million from investors in 2015. billion, Business of Fashion reported.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The Booking Process. Consumers can begin the booking process by selecting a festival on the website – say, The Airbeat One Festival in Germany – and then arrive at a guide page. When customers are ready to book, they visit a festival shop page that shows the different ticket types (i.e., VIP tickets).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2017

Japanese tech startup and messaging app maker Line announced on Tuesday (August 1) that it is rolling out a taxi-booking service in Thailand’s capital of Bangkok. According to a news report in TechCrunch , the licensed service is slated to roll out before the end of 2017.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2020

This latest financing comes as Airbnb bookings in San Francisco, New York City, and Seattle fell by more than 50 percent compared to the week beginning Jan. 5, according to a report by CityLab.Com last week. During the same period, reservations slipped by more than 35 percent in Washington, D.C., and Chicago, the survey revealed.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2020

Dissatisfied with Airbnb and other short-term rental companies, many hosts have created their own direct-booking websites to boost business and end years of frustration with the original online marketplace for lodging and its competitors, according to CNBC. Some of these websites have been in the works before the pandemic struck.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Travala.com , the Binance-backed online trading agency, will be allowing travel bookings through Expedia paid for in cryptocurrency for the first time since 2018, according to CoinDesk. In other news, a subsidiary of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken in the U.K. has now been approved to operate its derivatives platform, CoinDesk reported.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

Last October, news surfaced that HRS was launching a new business hotel payment technology to reshape how worldwide hotel business payments are handled.

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