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Airbnb to purchase HotelTonight, a hotel-booking app last valued at $463 million.
Last year HotelTonight launched HT Perks, their own twist on a hotel loyalty program. The program is level-based, meaning user “level up” as they meet certain tiers of lifetime spend in th
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HotelTonight, the platform that lets you make last-minute bookings at hotels, is today announcing that they’re expanding their reservation to up to 100 days out. The change doesn’t take ef
Last minute hotel booking app HotelTonight has closed a $37 million Series E round of funding -- having last raised in early 2014.
Need a place to crash last-minute but don’t want to pay for a pricey, cookie-cutter hotel? Overnight can hook you up with a local to stay with right away. Request a room and Overnight averages j
HotelTonight CEO Sam Shank (pictured above) said the hotel booking startup laid off 37 employees today, 20 percent of its total workforce. Shank described the cuts as “a strategic movement that
Last-minute hotel booking app <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hoteltonight.com">HotelTonight</a> is getting a fun update — from now until September 8, users can enter a contest to visit to the
Concur, the travel management and expense toolset that was purchased about a year ago by SAP, announced that it is partnering with HotelTonight and Lyft to allow employees to easily expense the two s
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