TripAdvisor acquires luxury travel site Jetsetter from Gilt Groupe

Popular travel advice and booking site TripAdvisor has acquired luxury travel site Jetsetter from Gilt Groupe for an undisclosed sum.

3 billion check-ins let Foursquare highlight the most awesome places in the U.S.

Three billion tweets and tens of millions of tips ought to add up to something. In Foursquare's case, that means the "Best of" series, which highlights "the most awesome places in cities across the U.S."

Small business of America: Double down on Facebook now to be part of the new graph search

Facebook announced its new graph search today. And everything in local marketing is going to change, again.

Now Facebook is competing with everyone in local search, including Apple and Google

What it's really going to do is open up the vast hoard of Facebook data and eat the lunch of a thousand large and small companies that make money by aggregating and rating what people do and where they go.

Google to promise it’ll change and be good, may end FTC antitrust investigations

After all, Santa knows who's naughty and who's nice.

TripAdvisor, Kiva to fund ‘hopes and dreams’ of world’s entrepreneurs

TripAdvisor and Kiva strike strategic partnership where TripAdvisor will offer $250K in loans on behalf of its community.

TripAdvisor sets sights on social travel planning with Wanderfly buy

Today there's one less challenger trying to unseat veteran vacation destination TripAdvisor from its digital throne.

TripAdvisor launches Facebook app for foodies, dines with Yelp and Foursquare

Travel recommendations company TripAdvisor is moving to restaurant review row and taking a seat next to Yelp and Foursquare with the release of Local Picks, a Facebook application for discovering dining recommendations from friends and locals.

Local Picks, launched Wednesday …

Wanderfly re-launches with a Pinterest-inspired travel site

Wanderfly, a travel recommendation search engine, re-launched its service Wednesday with a whole new site. The company is doing away with details like hotel prices and is offering picture-heavy travel guides for cities instead.

Wanderfly’s new site is full of …