{"id":53365,"date":"2012-10-02T14:30:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T14:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/tripadvisor-acquires-wanderfly.php"},"modified":"2012-10-02T14:30:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T14:30:52","slug":"tripadvisor-acquires-wanderfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/world-travel\/tripadvisor-acquires-wanderfly.php","title":{"rendered":"TripAdvisor Acquires Wanderfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    NEWTON, Mass., Oct. 2, 2012 \/PRNewswire\/ --TripAdvisor, the world's    largest travel site*, today announced it has acquired Wanderfly, a travel inspiration site.  <\/p>\n<p>    (Logo: <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20080902\/TRIPADVISORLOGO\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20080902\/TRIPADVISORLOGO<\/a>    )  <\/p>\n<p>    \"The Wanderfly team understands the value in social travel    planning,\" said Steve Kaufer, co-founder and CEO TripAdvisor.    \"They're a great asset as we continue our developments in this    area and I am delighted to welcome them to TripAdvisor.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    Terms of the acquisition will not be disclosed.  <\/p>\n<p>    About TripAdvisor    TripAdvisor is the world's largest travel site,*    enabling travelers to plan and have the perfect trip.    TripAdvisor offers trusted advice from real travelers and a    wide variety of travel choices and planning features with    seamless links to booking tools. TripAdvisor branded sites make    up the largest travel community in the world, with more than 60    million unique monthly visitors*, and over 75 million reviews    and opinions. The sites operate in 30 countries worldwide,    includingChina underdaodao.com. TripAdvisor also includes TripAdvisor    for Business, a dedicated division that provides the tourism    industry access to millions of monthly TripAdvisor visitors.  <\/p>\n<p>    TripAdvisor, Inc. (TRIP)    manages and operates websites under 19 other travel media    brands, and together the sites attract more than 74 million    unique monthly visitors.** TripAdvisor, Inc.'s travel media    brands include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airfarewatchdog.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.airfarewatchdog.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookingbuddy.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.bookingbuddy.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruisecritic.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.cruisecritic.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.everytrail.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyvacationcritic.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.familyvacationcritic.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flipkey.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.flipkey.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holidaylettings.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.holidaylettings.co.uk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holidaywatchdog.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.holidaywatchdog.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independenttraveler.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.independenttraveler.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onetime.com,www.seatguru.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.onetime.com,www.seatguru.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sniqueaway.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.sniqueaway.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartertravel.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.smartertravel.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tingo.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.tingo.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travel-library.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.travel-library.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelpod.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.travelpod.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualtourist.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.virtualtourist.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereivebeen.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.whereivebeen.com<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuxun.cn\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.kuxun.cn<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>    *Source: comScore Media Metrix for TripAdvisor Sites,    Worldwide, July 2012  <\/p>\n<p>    **Source: comScore Media Metrix forTripAdvisor,    Inc.and its subsidiaries, Worldwide, July 2012  <\/p>\n<p>    2012 TripAdvisor, Inc. All rights reserved.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/tripadvisor-acquires-wanderfly-140000146.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CWD.mpQUVcAteD_wgt.\" title=\"TripAdvisor Acquires Wanderfly\">TripAdvisor Acquires Wanderfly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> NEWTON, Mass., Oct.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/world-travel\/tripadvisor-acquires-wanderfly.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-travel"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}