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Hipmunk Raises $4.2 Million From VCs, Online Travel Experts

in Commerce on February 3, 2011 at 11:40 am PT

New York-based travel Web site Hipmunk has raised $4.2 million from Ignition Partners and a slew of former executives from the online travel industry. Others participating include Rich Barton and Erik Blachford, two former CEOs of Expedia; Jim Hornthal, founder of Preview Travel; Simon Breakwell, co-founder of TravelPost; and Rob Glaser, founder of RealNetworks. CEO Adam Goldstein said it would use the cash to hire more programmers to help take “the agony out of travel search.”

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Start-Ups Juggle Platforms, Prioritization

in News on March 23, 2009 at 12:27 pm PT

Moves by major tech companies to open up to outside developers have been a boon for small start-ups. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Yahoo, Apple and Intuit, to name a few, all allow developers to build software that hooks into their services.