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Nile Guide’s Investor List Grows Longer

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:32:06 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Last week we looked at how some browsers and plug-ins were adopting storage-related API’s that are a part of the new HTML5 draft specification. While Gears, Opera and Webkit have implemented structured storage API’s, the remainder of the HTML5 spec currently remains mostly unimplemented and also in a state of flux. HTML5 is a super-sized […]Source:TechCrunch
Nile Guide, a sophisticated travel planning site that launched just over a month ago, has raised $8 million in Series B from Austin Ventures, Lehman Brothers, and existing investors Draper Richards and KPG Ventures. The round brings Nile Guide’s total to over $9.5 million.
We’re told that since launch, the site has added support for 5 […]

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Technorati Founder Dave Sifry Takes On Travel Guide Industry

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:30:03 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Technorati founder Dave Sifry, who left the company a little over a year ago, is launching a new company called Offbeat Guides this morning into private beta.
Think Lonely Planet travel guides, except they are created on the fly from Internet data sources, customized to you personally and then delivered via PDF instantly or (a color […]

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With Nile Guide, You Can Whittle Down Your Travel Options

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:35:26 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Akoha, a startup working on a “new type of multiplayer online/offline social game”, has raised $1.9 Million in funding from angel investors. The company won’t release details about the exact nature of their game until this Fall, but they have stated that it was inspired by “elements of social entrepreneurship, massively multiplayer and reality-based […]Source:TechCrunch
People who hang out on Twitter a lot know that quite often big news breaks there first. A recent example - when Chinese hackers took down SportsNetwork, the news was on Twitter well before we covered it.
But so far, unless you’re lucky enough to be following the right people, and online when the news […]Source:TechCrunch
Usually when people decide it’s time for a vacation, they don’t start from absolute scratch. They have ideas as to what types of experiences they’d like to have, even if they have no clue as to where and how they’ll have them.
Nile Guide is a travel planning website launching today with an appreciation for that […]

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