Travis Katz

First Class Ticket: Social Travel Start-Up Gogobot Raises $15M in Funding at $70M Valuation

Kara Swisher in Social on November 3, 2011 at 12:00 pm PT

Around the world in $15 million.

Gogobot Goes Mobile With New iPhone App

Kara Swisher in Mobile on October 18, 2011 at 9:00 am PT

The innovative social travel site Gogobot is unveiling its iPhone app today.

Gogobot Unveils Flipboard-Like Web Travel Scrapbook

Kara Swisher in Social on July 20, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

The social travel start-up Gogobot has launched an eye-catching new feature to its site to allow users to make visually striking collections of their destinations on the fly. Get it? A travel site and on the fly!

Is There a Myspace Mafia, Too? Because Leaving Seems to Have Paid Off for Many Ex-Execs.

Kara Swisher in Social on June 13, 2011 at 11:28 am PT

When the selling of Myspace winds down in the next week or so, it’ll probably attract a spate of comments about what a failure the whole social networking enterprise turned out to be. That is, unless you think of the mob of former execs who have worked at the company over time, many of whom have moved on to some more golden opportunities after leaving Myspace.

Gogobot CEO Travis Katz Talks About Beta Launch of Social Travel Site

Kara Swisher in News on November 16, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

Last week, BoomTown sat down with former Myspace exec Travis Katz to talk about the private beta launch of his new start-up, Gogobot. No, it’s not a robot from Google–it’s a social travel site, which uses friends to enhance the travel-planning experience. Essentially, it feels like Facebook for trips, but with really good images.

Digital Musical Chairs at MySpace and FIM Still Going–Exec Departures and More…

Kara Swisher in News on July 10, 2009 at 5:23 am PT

As BoomTown previously reported, there have been a lot of exec departures and shifts at Fox Interactive Media and its MySpace unit, which seem to be continuing. Especially departures, it seems, as the massive restructuring of the digital units of News Corp. keeps shaking out. Top engineer Max Engel, who ran the social networking site’s open initiatives, for example, is leaving to join the new stealth start-up being helmed by ex-MySpace employees, including former COO Amit Kapur. And there are a lot of others too.

Confirmed: Travis Katz Remains at MySpace as International Head (Though With 66.7 Percent Less Staff)

Kara Swisher in News on June 23, 2009 at 6:50 pm PT

Earlier today, there was an odd little news kerfuffle around the status of MySpace international head Travis Katz, as the troubled social-networking site laid off 300 of its non-U.S. employees. Last week, MySpace announced it was reducing its U.S. staff by 420 workers in what has been a major restructuring for the News Corp. unit. Well, to clear up the is-he-is-or-is-he-ain’t question, it turns out Katz is definitely not leaving in the current shake-up.