As the summer travel season goes into full swing, a travel app that hopes to give you a new way of experiencing physical spaces is growing. Detour — an immersive city guide app constructed around GPS-triggered audio and smart, witty narratives — is expanding beyond its existing footprint of San Francisco and Austin to cover New York and five international cities: Barcelona…
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Detour, Andrew Mason’s Audio Tour App, Goes Global And Expands To 6 More Cities 0
June 11th at 4:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinions -
Travel Site TripAdvisor Buys Tiny Post To Fill Out Its Mobile And Social Ambitions 0
March 22nd at 4:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsTripAdvisor, the travel site built around destination guides and user reviews, today made another acquisition: it has bought Tiny Post, an iOS app that lets users take pictures, write captions over them, and then share them with people on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it looks like this was both an acqui-hire as well as a product acquisition. The…
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TripAdvisor Expands its City Guides to 50 Destinations 0
May 24th at 6:31pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsTravel review and booking site TripAdvisor has just announced that its City Guides mobile app has expanded into 50 total destinations — up by 30 more destinations from its original offering. Additionally, Android users can…