Yahoo has just acquired frequent flier search startup MileWise, whose team will move to New York to join the recently acquired Stamped team on Yahoo’s mobile squad. I hear MileWise’s investors made a small return, and MileWise’s entire five-person team is joining Yahoo. The startup has shut down its flight search. → Read More
Delta is joining American Airlines and Southwest Airlines as the third major brand to deny travel startups access to users’ frequent flyer accounts for the purpose of tracking airlines miles and rewards. Startups affected include TripIt (reportedly*), MileWise and AwardWallet (confirmed) and others. Here’s the situation in a nutshell: the airlines think your rewards data is theirs. Users think… → Read More
Milewise is an up-and-coming New York startup that’s currently in stealth mode (its service has been invite-only since at least the first time I caught wind of the company, which must have been in the summer of 2010). According to this SEC filing, they’ve just raised $1.5 million in debt funding.
We don’t know much about the company, except that it was co-founded by Vinay Pulim, who previously… → Read More
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