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Travel site TripAdvisor said on Wednesday that it has acquired GateGuru. No financial terms were disclosed. Based in New York City, GateGuru, which was backed by BHV and a number of angel investors, is a mobile app that provides flight and airport information. PRESS RELEASE NEWTON, Mass., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — TripAdvisor®, Inc. today announced it has acquired GateGuru (www.gateguruapp.com), the leading mobile resource for flight and airport information around the world. Built on a mix of user-generated content and information from the airports, flyers can view detailed maps and insights on stores, restaurants, amenities and gate locations. Combined with weather forecasts, estimated security wait times and real-time flight status information, the award-winning app aims to take the stress out of flying. “Flying is often an essential part of a trip and we have continually developed our suite of flights products, from the pricing and availability search on TripAdvisor, to our award-winning SeatGuru.com, with seat maps and more,” said Steve Kaufer, co-founder and CEO TripAdvisor, Inc. “GateGuru nicely complements our existing flights products and we look forward to working with the GateGuru team as they continue to manage the GateGuru app and add great functionality to the TripAdvisor mobile experience.” The GateGuru team will continue to operate out of New York City, and report to Bryan Saltzburg, General Manager New Initiatives and leader of the TripAdvisor Flights product and SeatGuru brand. Terms of the acquisition will not be disclosed. 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 200 million unique monthly visitors**, and over 100 million reviews and opinions covering more than 2.5 million accommodations, restaurants and attractions. The sites operate in 30 countries worldwide, including China under daodao.com. TripAdvisor also includes TripAdvisor for Business, a dedicated division that provides the tourism industry access to millions of monthly TripAdvisor visitors. TripAdvisor, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIP) manages and operates websites under 20 other travel media brands: www.airfarewatchdog.com, www.bookingbuddy.com, www.cruisecritic.com, www.everytrail.com, www.familyvacationcritic.com, www.flipkey.com, www.holidaylettings.co.uk, www.holidaywatchdog.com, www.independenttraveler.com, www.jetsetter.com, www.niumba.com, www.onetime.com,www.seatguru.com, www.sniqueaway.com, www.smartertravel.com, www.tingo.com, www.travelpod.com, www.virtualtourist.com, www.whereivebeen.com, and www.kuxun.cn. The post TripAdvisor Buys GateGuru appeared first on peHUB.

In the three months since Google announced it was shutting down Reader, Feedly has tripled its userbase from four million to 12 million. In other words, Google killing its RSS platform has been a truly wonderful thing for Feedly. But only because the company was ready for hyper-growth. Feedly very quickly built a simple one-click migration from Google Reader after Google decided to shut down Reader. That one-click migration helped it capture a significant fraction of the passionate users that Google was abandoning — 47,000 of whom signed a Change.org petition to keep Google Reader alive. But a new plugin-free web version, and a new cloud-based API for third-party developers and applications, could be the key to making Feedly the new default RSS partner for applications such as news readers and social magazines. The new Feedly is now processing over 25 million feeds a day, the company announced today, and billions of articles. It’s built on a new cloud architecture which delivers services to the web, apps, and a new platform which includes developer partners IFTTT (If this then that), Sprout Social, gReader, Press, and Newsify. Over 200 developers have signed up to get access to the Feedly API, the company says, and it anticipates announcing more “innovative reading experiences” soon. On a personal note, I used Feedly’s migration process — if you can call a couple of clicks a process — a couple of months ago, and I’ve been using Feedly ever since. (I put it first on my list of Google Reader alternatives for a reason.) The migration was simple and complete, included my folder organization as well as my feeds, and the web experience of Feedly can be easily configured to closely match a slightly-better-designed Google Reader: text-heavy, compact, and easy to quickly scan. Google is shutting down Reader on July 1st. If you have RSS feeds still active there, Google recommends that you export them before that data, or risk losing your data. photo credit: mattgalligan via photopin cc Filed under: Business, Cloud, Dev, Media

The PlayStation 4 won over gamers at E3 with its price and stance on used games. But there’s still a lot we don’t know about the system. Thankfully, a new video from Sony shows a bit more about how the console will work in everyday use. The new interface of the system is front and center and it looks rather slick. Once you log in, you see a feed a social updates that is reminiscent of Facebook or Google+. The feed contains status updates, messages, notifications about new games, videos, and more. The clip also shows how users can share game videos with each other. You just record a small snippet of gameplay and send to your friends. This can especially be helpful with figuring out how to beat a boss or overcome some obstacle. One other cool thing in the new video is how games can be installed. The game Killzone: Shadow Fall lets you choose to download the multiplayer mode of the game or the single-player mode of the game first. And you can download these new titles while continuing to play other games on your system. Check out the video above for more. Filed under: Games GamesBeat 2013 is our fifth annual conference on disruption in the video game market. You'll get 360-degree perspectives from top gaming executives, developers, and analysts on what’s to come in the industry. Our theme this year is “The Battle Royal.” Check out full event details here, and grab your early-bird tickets here! .boilerplate-after hr { margin: 10px 0 10px 0; }

Groupnic is a free service for communication and cloud data storage for private groups. In an easy way you have the ability to create groups only with those people you consider suitable for communicating and interacting with multimedia applications, and share stored files in the cloud with total security and privacy. You can also create groups only for special occasions and you can delete them at any time.

Discover what friends are experiencing at interesting places around you. Went shopping recently? Spotted something you can't wait to tell your friends? Get on board now and know what your friends are shopping for. It's new and lots of fun!

Zomato Restaurant Finder app gives you restaurant recommendations around you and lets you look at menus, pictures and maps for 95,000 restaurants in India, United Kingdom (London), UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah), Philippines (Manila), South Africa (Johannesburg), Qatar (Doha) and Sri Lanka (Colombo).

Etable is a social platform bringing together food lovers from around the world Etable helps you share where, what & with whom you eat. It gets better as you use it with all your friends. If you love to eat and enjoy sharing your experiences, then Etable is made just for you.

‘Collaaj For iPad’ is the best one-stop-shop iPad whiteboard platform for sales & marketing professionals. Impress and win more customers by engaging in highly productive whiteboard discussions. Make beautiful video recordings of your whiteboards, and share them using a simple secure URL. Organize your team's videos in one central location.

A simple and intuitive browser for Android smartphones. All you favorite websites are only one tap away, while data compression technology loads pages quickly even with a slow mobile internet connection.

Sharing music has never been so easy & fun.Select a song, add context to it and share it on Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. Yeah, it’s as easy as that! And while you are at it, unlock records, manage your favorite artists and level up.