HotelTonight announced it was extending to Ireland at at the Dublin Web Summit today. The last-minute hotel booking app is already live in the UK. The news means every day at noon local time, HotelTonight offers same-day hotel deals and personalised hotel options in 65+ destinations in Ireland. Some of the hotel partners include The Croke Park Hotel, The Gresham Dublin and The Westbury Hotel.
If the Samwer Brothers’ Rocket Internet has a blueprint, it goes something like this: Take a proven business model, usually originating from the U.S., and apply it aggressively to new markets.
HotelTonight, the app that provides access to special deals for hotel rooms available that very evening, is making a couple of announcements today.
For one thing, the company says that it’s making its first move into continental Europe, with hotel listings in Paris, Nice, Brussels, and Amsterdam.
One of the main selling points of HotelTonight, the app that allows users to reserve hotel rooms for, yes, that very evening, is its simplicity.
Klout isn’t the only startup dealing in perks, it seems. Today, ticketing startup Eventbrite is also expanding upon the concept of customer rewards, but in its case, doling out the perks is a decision that’s being left up to the event organizer – it’s not based on who you are or how popular you are on Twitter.
In a move that puts a little heat on HotelTonight and the raft of other last-minute-hotel-booking apps, as well as possibly helping to cool down the planet, Hot Hotels is to offset the carbon emissions associated with each hotel stay booked through its platform, free of charge to the user.
NewsCred, which provides licensed content to publishers and brands for their websites and content marketing campaigns, has acquired a startup called Daylife.
The financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed. NewsCred did say that it expects to bring all of Daylife’s employees over to the new team.
Google today announced their acquisition of YC alumni BufferBox, a Waterloo-based startup that specializes in providing users with temporary lockers to receive delivery of packages from online e-commerce retailers. The company is led by a founding team of three University of Waterloo graduates, Mike McCauley, Aditya Bali and Jay Shah.
Groupon continues its acquisition march to beef up its service and take itself beyond daily deals. Today it announced that it has bought Savored, a restaurant reservations and discount meal provider. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Savored is used by some 1,000 restaurants and gives diners discounts of up to 40% when they book through the site.
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