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TripAdvisor introduces ‘Just for You,’ hotel recommendations based on search history and feedback
Oct28
TripAdvisor has been offering personalized recommendations for a while already thanks to a tie-up with Facebook. Today, the online travel search giant is introducing a new feature with customization very much at its heart. With ‘Just for You’, TripAdvisor promises to serve up tailored hotel recommendations based on your preferences and search history on the site. For example, when you search for hotels for a specific location, you’ll see a range of tags to set your general preferences, including location, style, hotel class, price range, amenities and more. TripAdvisor Tags TripAdvisor collects this feedback, along with your prior research and…
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At the WSJD Live conference Tim Cook addressed merchants disabling the NFC feature in their payment terminals in order to circumvent the use of Apple Pay. Cook called the ongoing issue a “skirmish” and indicated that he believed that it’ll be customers that will decide which payment service retailers will end up supporting. Of course it helps that Apple activated 1 million cards in the first 72 hours according to Cook. “In the long arc of time you’re only relevant as a merchant if your customers love you,” Cook said. Retailers CVS and Rite Aid have already moved to block both Apple Pay and…
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Syncing with the cloud is nothing new. But it usually involves developers using the available APIs from cloud services like Dropbox. Nextbit thinks it can do it better without developers having to do anything new with their apps. Nextbit’s Baton syncs your Android devices with the cloud at the OS level. You can sync apps from phone to tablet and back without the developer doing anything. Everything is handled by the operating system, no APIs required. The team demoed the technology at Recode’s Code Mobile event on devices with its own tweaked versions of Cyanogen for Android. Cynaogen is an aftermarket…
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Luis Buenaventura is Head of Product at Satoshi Citadel Industries, a Bitcoin startup operating out of the Philippines. It’s a little known fact that mobile money was effectively invented in the Philippines by Smart Communications. Its Smart Money solution, launched in 2001, predates the successful M-Pesa out of Kenya by a good six years. Even GCash, a similar service operated by the second largest telco in the Philippines, was launched three years before Safaricom’s pride and joy in 2004. But although M-Pesa is clearly the runaway hit of the mobile money platforms (31 percent of Kenya’s GDP is spent on the back of their system), other…
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