HotelTonight ‘reinvents hotel reviews’ with new photo-sharing feature

May 8, 2013 9:00 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Last-minute hotel booking app HotelTonight adds a user-generated photo review feature, as well as a price guarantee.

With $25M, travel site Ostrovok emerges as leader in Russian market

March 27, 2013 9:46 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Online hotel booking service Ostrovok nabs $25 million from General Catalyst, Accel Partners, and Yuri Milner to become the top Internet travel company in the Russian-speaking world.

Cvent, the meetings-booking business you’ve never heard of, channels $3.4B in business in 2012 so far

July 23, 2012 9:00 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Continuing a stunning turn-around, event-booking company Cvent helped companies book $3.4 billion worth of meetings in the first six months of 2012.

That’s up 50 percent from last year, and it represents 8,100 companies booking 47,000 meetings. The company still …