Vacation Rental Site Raises $250 Million
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, the largest online vacation rental marketplace, announced Tuesday that it has raised $250 million in venture capital, an extraordinarily large amount of money for an Internet company. The new round, which is the biggest a tech company has raised since 2000, brings the four-year-old start-up’s total venture funding to $405 million.
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NO. 2: Cancun, Mexico: EscapeArtist.com picked the best places in the world in which to retire. Climate and housing are factored in choices.
While there are some things in retirement you'll have little control over, such as health, there will be other aspects you can prepare for in advance, by developing common interests with your partner and a plan to finance them.
A number of studies have been done about retirement destinations. EscapeArtist.com Read the rest of this entry »
Revolutionizing Dog Guide Training With Technology
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Leader Dogs for the Blind is known throughout the world for its forward thinking and innovation in the dog guide field. In fact, Leader Dogs for the Blind is the only dog guide school in North America to hold a dedicated program to train dog guides for people who are deaf and blind. Leader Dogs for the Blind is also the only dog guide school to offer an entire continuum of learning for people who are blind and visually impaired, including: classes Read the rest of this entry »
Falcon to offer regular flights to destinations in Abu Dhabi
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Regular flights to internal destinations in Abu Dhabi are to be offered for the first time by executive jet and helicopter operator Falcon Aviation Services.
The company will also consolidate service between Abu Dhabi's Emirates Palace and Dubai's Burj Al Arab.
"Without doubt this new launch and expansion in the private aviation sector reflects the growth and development taking place in the UAE," said Lieutenant General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Read the rest of this entry »
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TAM Announces 3Q08 Results
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Operational Performance
Domestic Operations
-- TAM reached 52.4% average market share in 3Q08.
-- ASKs (capacity) increased 16.7% in 3Q08 compared to 3Q07 as a result of
the net increase in the operating narrow body fleet of 11 aircraft,
composed by the increase of 2 A319, 15 A320 and 1 A321, compensated by
the elimination of the Read the rest of this entry »
The Singapore version of the portal has a comprehensive flight search functionality that shows an exhaustive list of deals from multiple sources with real time pricing and availability. The portal also has a section of Travel Guides that has information on places as regular as Mumbai & Kolkata to exotic places like Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sikkim and Vaishno Devi. Zoomtra.com has also partnered with several travel agents in Singapore specialising Read the rest of this entry »
MAS to have ‘global online sale’ for 26 destinations
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Petrol station operators can be fined up to RM100,000
Cheaper nasi kandar, teh tarik and roti canai now
Decisions a good start, says Anwar
Indians must learn to stand on their own feet, says Vinod
Accept RPK case decision, DAP and Gerakan tell Government
Ill abide by party decision on post, says Ka Chuan
1,500 in charity walk for disabled
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World's strangest culinary destinations
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Check out a list of the "world's strangest" anything, and you may also find some of its most interesting. That's the case with Travel and Leisure's list of the
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Culinary tourism's about the experience as much as the food, hence the appeal of a restaurant in
in Singapore. There, alongside an operating room-style kitchen and while sitting in gold-plated wheelchair seats, guests make their own soba noodles by squirting from a syringe into a hot Read the rest of this entry »