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| Nov 12, 2014 | Wayn introduces global hotel search with Booking.com partnership | Wayn (Where Are You Now), the social network for jet-setters, is partnering with Booking.com — one of the world’s main booking accommodations sites and member of Priceline Group. The deal will enable the social network to offer an accommoda... |
| Sep 26, 2014 | TCUK’s Broadband 101: Part 2 | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Part 2: How to get the right broadband for your business now.
There are two types you need to be aware of:
1. Contended services (in other words sharing a connection) – main... |
| Sep 19, 2013 | Social travel network WAYN marks 22-million registered travellers | When you are an online social network dedicated to travel in an economy that doesn’t really support gallivanting around the world, milestones matter. For travel and lifestyle social network, WAYN, that milestone is 22-million registered use... |
| Sep 19, 2013 | Social travel network WAYN marks 22-million registered travellers | When you are an online social network dedicated to travel in an economy that doesn’t really support gallivanting around the world, milestones matter. For travel and lifestyle social network, WAYN, that milestone is 22-million registered use... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | WAYN: how a social startup is cashing in on its jet-setting community | Since its re-launch in 2006, WAYN has managed to become one of the few social startups to secure funding despite a recent downturn in social media investment. After changing its market strategy over the years, the ‘Pinterest for travelers’ ... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | WAYN: how a social startup is cashing in on its jet-setting community | Since its re-launch in 2006, WAYN has managed to become one of the few social startups to secure funding despite a recent downturn in social media investment. After changing its market strategy over the years, the ‘Pinterest for travelers’ ... |
| Dec 7, 2012 | WAYN Hits 21M Users, Signs Partnership To Reach India Today’s 100M User Base | It’s been a while since we checked in with WAYN, (Where Are You Now), but the super early player in travel/lifestyle social media has quietly clocked up over 21 million members, in part by sticking to its travel niche religiously. Today its... |
| May 3, 2010 | Niche travel social network WAYN hits profitability, mobile apps on the way | It’s been a while since we caught up with WAYN, one of the earliest social networks (so early they once charged for access). WAYN is a niche social network which focuses on the younger, aspirational traveling classes. Amazingly, despite the... |
| Jan 26, 2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s London | A settlement for nearly 2,000 years, London is today the most populous greater metropolitan area in Europe with over 13 million residents. Home to popular tourist locations such as Big Ben, The London Eye and Buckingham Palace, London’s sky... |
| Dec 16, 2009 | Nsyght Launches Its Realtime Social Aggregator, And It's Very Fast | Nsyght, a real time social aggregation service, went live last night at our Realtime ChristmasCrunch event in London (#XmasCrunch), and it’s a tantilising service. The startup has also raised $200,000 in Angel funding from a group of privat... |
| Dec 16, 2009 | Nsyght re-launches as a realtime social aggregator | Nsyght, a real time social aggregation service, went live last night at our Realtime ChristmasCrunch event in London, and it’s a tantilising service. The startup has also raised $200,000 in Angel funding from a group of private Angel invest... |
| Sep 3, 2009 | James Caan, Richard Moross and Jerome Touze to speak at Microsoft's UK BizSpark Summit | Microsoft’s BizSpark (@BizSpark) program offers support and services to emerging technology companies. Success stories like Huddle began on BizSpark before being put on Microsoft’s Startup Accelerator Program.
On Monday, September 28 2009, ... |
| Apr 16, 2009 | WAYN's next strategy? Copy Dopplr | UK-based social-networking site WAYN is one of the oldest startups around. It’s so old it even copied Friends Reunited’s subscription model back in the day before it’s VCs convinced it to go free. But it in the Age of Facebook, it’s losing ... |
| Feb 27, 2009 | OSLO accord pushes location-sharing between social networks | We’ve had OpenId to make the transport of your ID easier between Web sites. We’ve had initiatives on Data Portability to make it easier for you to move your data around between social networks and other apps. But what we haven’t had yet is ... |
| Feb 10, 2009 | This week's fluffy news from TechFluff.tv | This week TechFluff.TV (we are a media sponsor) talks to Amanda Rose, the organiser of Global Twestival, about the prospect of Twitter’s biggest event yet; a frog pitches on an escalator and the founders of WAYN answer your questions. |
| Feb 10, 2009 | WebMission launches Brit/Irish assault on Silicon Valley. Join up now! | In the folk-lore of the UK internet startup scene, WebMission has past into legend. OK, so that might be putting it a bit strong. But the trip last year to take 20 UK startups to Silicon Valley to network, market themselves and see just how... |
| Dec 22, 2008 | HereOrThere is nowhere – 681 members after a year | Social travel site HereOrThere, backed by Hugo Burge (the internet entrepreneur involved in Cheapflights), has now been running for a year and three months. What has it achieved? Just 681 members.
Granted it now has 84,833 places listed alo... |
| May 6, 2008 | Travel startup UpTake set to launch opinions super-site | With so many online travel sites crowding the market, you’d think we were nearing a Web 2.0 travel bubble. But according to travel information search engine UpTake, which is launching May 14, there’s still an untapped niche in the market: a... |
| Apr 24, 2008 | The British Are Coming… Back Soon | Along with a bunch of other European firms exhibiting at Web 2 Expo this week (including 20 from Ireland) were a group of 21 UK startups selected from over 100 applicants by TechCrunch UK, working in conjunction with the UK government. Anno... |
| Apr 22, 2008 | Boom for travel sites — Can they make money? | Travel sites are in fashion this spring, with new sites adding at a steady pace. Finnish travel site TripSay is just the latest to emerge, for example, with ways to share tips about travel. It’s still in closed testing, but it plans to open... |
| Apr 16, 2008 | Britain’s best and brightest startups hit Silicon Valley next week for funding | If you’ve never heard of Dragon’s Den, it’s a popular British TV reality series, where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to get funding from business experts — the “Dragons”. One of those Dragons, Doug Richard, a UK-based Californian and foun... |
| Mar 18, 2008 | Is WAYN on the block again? | Back in January I had several very good leads telling me that WAYN, the social network for travelers was in talks with AOL about a $200m sale. A term sheet was said to be imminent. I called WAYN but they denied the whole thing and, via anot... |
| Mar 11, 2008 | The British are coming! | I’m sure there is little requirement for even more Brits wandering around Silicon Valley – but I’m afraid it’s going to be unavoidable during the week of 19-25 April, as 20 UK startups invade, courtesy of the British government. Web Mission... |
| Mar 11, 2008 | Web Mission 08: UK startups to visit Silicon Valley | Well, after months of planning and an application and judging process lasting several weeks, Web Mission 08, the project backed by UK Trade Invest, Heller Ehrmann, BT and HSBC to take 20 UK tech startups out to network in Silicon Valley, is... |
| Feb 6, 2008 | WAYN pimps credit card to users | Social travel network WAYN is to offer a branded pre-pay credit card financed by Tuxedo Money Solutions. The card will be available to its 10.8m users who often start out as backpackers. VIP members will get the WAYN Lifestyle Card for free... |
| Jan 16, 2008 | WAYN said to be close to sale. The price? $200m. The buyer? AOL | Social travel site WAYN is allegedly in talks with AOL over a possible $200m sale to the consumer portal giant. A spokesperson for the UK startup denied that any sale talks are taking place. However, I have tonight spoken to three well-plac... |
| Jan 16, 2008 | AOL Rumored To Be In Talks To Buy UK Social Travel Site WAYN For $200 Million | British site Where Are You Now? (WAYN), a social network for meeting fellow travelers, is rumored to be in negotiations with AOL to be bought for $200 million. That would make it one of the biggest Web 2.0 acquisitions of a UK startup after... |
| Sep 27, 2007 | HereOrThere launches social travel offensive | Social travel site HereOrThere, backed by Hugo Burge (the internet entrepreneur involved in Cheapflights), has started to publicly promote its beta site after three months in development.
Backed by Howzat Media LLP, the early stage dotcom i... |
| Nov 28, 2006 | WAYN heralds the new wave of location | With the news that Wayn.com has secured $11 million from British VC fund Esprit Capital Partners to fuel its expansion, it appears “location” is the new wave in social in networking. We’ve seen it invade the verticals of music (MySpace), ea... |
| Nov 28, 2006 | Travel site WAYN.com raises $11M for travel social networking site | WAYN.com, a London-based social networking travel web site, has raised $11m (£5.7m).
It lets users enter details of where they are and where they have traveled in the past, and how they can share information about say, the best bars in New... |
| Nov 27, 2006 | Travel Social Network Where Are You Now Raises $11 Million | Where Are You Now (WAYN.com) — which is the world’s largest travel and lifestyle social network — announced that they had raised $11 million in Series A venture funding from several different investors including Espirit Capital Partners.... |
| Nov 2, 2006 | Internet Peeps Dinner with Simon Murdoch | There is another Internet People’s dinner being held on Wednesday the 8th November. The speaker this time is Simon Murdoch, CEO of Friendsabroad, Partner in Episode1 and former Head of Amazon.com in Europe. The event is at Adam Street Priva... |
| Oct 6, 2006 | Internet "Peeps" Dinner with Robert Loch. | Good news the next intimate Internet “Peeps” Dinner organised by Robert Loch is fast approaching. The last one was excellent. This dinner takes place on 16th October and starts at 7pm with the Q & A commencing promptly at 7.30pm. and th... |