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Uptake

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Uptake is a social travel site helps you decide what to do on your ideal vacation by giving you advice and recommendations from the largest online travel library and the people you trust most. Uptake enables consumers to tap into their preferred source of expertise and recommendations – friends and trusted experts who have been there –to create the perfect trip. Uptake has also built a foundation of the largest structured travel library in the U.S., which offers a wealth of relevant consumer reviews, editorial articles and photos from more than 30,000 sites to help consumers make the best travel decisions. Launched in 2008, Uptake has built the third largest travel research audience in the U.S., behind TripAdvisor and Yahoo!.

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  Uptake added Chris Hickson as VP of Revenue.
  Posted 2/12/11 at 4:53am
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  Uptake added Lesley Kao as VP of Product.
  Posted 2/12/11 at 4:53am
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  Uptake added Tong Luo as Automated Extraction Specialist.
  Posted 10/11/07 at 4:36am
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  Uptake added Huanjin Chen as Search Architect.
  Posted 10/11/07 at 4:35am
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  Uptake added Boris Galitsky as Natural Language Search Scientist.
  Posted 10/11/07 at 4:34am
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  Uptake added Gene McKenna as VP, Product Development.
  Posted 10/11/07 at 4:34am
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  Uptake added Elliott Ng as VP, Marketing. (3/1/07)
  Posted 10/11/07 at 4:33am
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  Uptake added Yen Lee as President.
  Posted 10/11/07 at 4:33am
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  Uptake received $10M in Series B funding. (9/18/08)
  Posted 9/18/08 at 11:31am via techcrunch.com
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  Uptake received $4M in Series A funding. (12/18/07)
  Posted 12/18/07 at 11:50pm via silicontap.com
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  Uptake acquired RealTravel. (11/4/10)
  Posted 11/4/10 at 9:36pm via techcrunch.com
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  Uptake was acquired by Groupon. (2/28/12)
  Posted 2/28/12 at 8:05pm via venturebeat.com

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Uptake

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Website	uptake.com
Stage	Live
Tags	travel

Above: UpTake Screenshot
Uploaded: 4/4/08

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1. In its third acquisition this month, Groupon buys Uptake (venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. UpTake Networks Buys Social Hotel Recommendation Engine RealTravel.com (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Kango Raises $4M (silicontap.com) [edit]
4. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]