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Kayak’s Ever-Evolving Business

  • February 25th, 2010
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • By Glenn Gruber

Travel industry analyst firm, PhoCusWright, recently posted that “Kayak Takes on the Big Guys“, noting the apparent changes in their business model, and poses the question whether Kayak can still be considered a meta-search player.  Kayak’s introduction of ‘booking facilitation’ and ‘Private Sales’ are pushing them closer to becoming an OTA in some aspects.  However, [ READ MORE ]

OMG, PCW Missed the Point

  • January 28th, 2010
  • Posted in Travel Technology
  • By Glenn Gruber

Now I may be relatively new to the travel industry, but I’m not new to controversy, so let me get this off my chest. I like many others were glued to their computers listening to live audio streams of yesterday’s Apple iPad announcement, tweeting away.  Now I won’t get into the whole debate as to whether [ READ MORE ]

Ease of Development v. Ease of Use — Mobile Edition

  • January 14th, 2010
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • By Glenn Gruber

Today I read a good post by CrispWireless CTO, Xavier Facon, entitled “Apps Call, but will your phone answer? Maybe not.” The post was a response to an MSNBC CES article bemoaning the fact that many apps exist on certain platforms, but not others.  This of course is not news.  Apple’s iPhone had 100,000, Google’s [ READ MORE ]

About Glenn Gruber

I’m a technology marketing executive working for Ness Technologies' Software Product Labs team responsible for building our travel technology practice. I am very interested in the changing software paradigm and the impact that it's going to have on the travel industry. Technology like SOA, Cloud/SaaS, Mobile, the evolution of the social enterprise and social-aware software IS changing the traditional software landscape. The question is how and whether you’ll be prepared.
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