Company Announcements

Get Money Back when Traveling with TripIt Pro’s Refund Tracker

Flights Booked Early Most Likely to be Refundable; Virgin America, Frontier, and Alaska Airlines Reward Most Refunds

San Francisco, CA – November 11, 2010 – Since launching flight refund tracking in September, TripIt Pro has identified savings worth hundreds of thousands of dollars by alerting travelers to a little-known fact: when airlines drop the fare on a flight ticket you have purchased, travelers are often eligible for refunds. TripIt Pro-detected refunds save the average customer more than $100.

Tracks for Airfare Refunds, Offers Valuable Travel Benefits, and Lowers Price

San Francisco, CA – September 22, 2010 – Today, TripIt announced new improvements in its TripIt Pro premium service that make it even better at helping travelers transform travel chaos into order. TripIt Pro works like a “personal travel assistant” that constantly watches out for you to save time, money, and headaches while on the road.

“We’re excited to add even more value to TripIt Pro, a service many travelers have already called ‘invaluable’,” said Gregg Brockway, TripIt co-founder and president. “In particular, consumer response to TripIt Pro’s new feature that tracks for airfare refunds has been amazing, with many stating TripIt Pro has already paid for itself at least once, if not many times over.”

New improvements to TripIt Pro include:

Leading Mobile Travel Service Launches Truly Effortless Experience for Gmail Users

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - August 12, 2010 - TripIt launched a simple innovation that makes organizing travel easier than ever before. Travelers who use Gmail or Google Apps can now ask TripIt to automatically import their travel confirmation emails to create and update trip itineraries. It's a true "set and forget" experience that benefits travelers no matter how they access TripIt -- via our free apps for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry, the mobile site (m.tripit.com), through calendar feeds, or on the Web. This new auto-import feature is currently in Beta, and is available now. Thousands of travelers have already linked their TripIt and Gmail accounts in the first 12 hours after the feature was launched.

"TripIt for Business" Offers Innovative Travel Management Tools to Increase Productivity and Ease Business Travelers' Lives

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - August 4, 2010 - TripIt, the trip management company, today makes available for purchase "TripIt for Business," a suite of tools that gives companies more visibility into employee travel and provides business travelers a smoother, more productive travel experience. TripIt for Business includes a private company network with group controls and a special rate on TripIt Pro, a premium service that keeps frequent travelers in control, in the know and in the loop while on the road.

New Service Provides Turnkey Itinerary, Mobile, and Networking Solution to Cornerstone Travel Agencies

San Francisco, CA and Bloomington, IN - July 28, 2010: Leading trip management service TripIt (www.tripit.com) today announced an integration with Cornerstone Information Systems (www.ciswired.com), a technology and professional services company in the travel sector. The new service gives Cornerstone enabled travel agencies a complete, multi-source trip management solution, with virtually no implementation effort.

TripIt SmartSolution for Lexmark's Web-connected all-in-one printers keeps business travelers organized at the touch of a button

SAN FRANCISCO, June 21, 2010 -- TripIt (www.tripit.com) and Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) today launched the TripIt SmartSolution (http://smartsolutions.lexmark.com/) to make it easier for busy travelers to print their travel plans.

With the TripIt SmartSolution, travelers can easily manage their business and personal travel plans via the one-touch printer solution that connects to their existing TripIt account. Without even turning on their computer, travelers, their co-workers and families can easily print their itineraries using Lexmark’s award-winning, Web-connected, all-in-one (AIO) inkjet printers – Platinum, Pinnacle, Prestige and Interact.

Small businesses finding TripIt an easy way to manage travel

SAN FRANCISCO, May 11, 2010 -- TripIt, the trip management company, announced that over 10,000 company groups have been created on TripIt since the feature was announced less than three months ago. Companies of all sizes are creating TripIt Groups, but especially small and medium technology companies. With TripIt Groups, employees can see other traveling employees on their company’s travel map, helping them meet up and get the most out of each business trip.

Here's how a few small technology companies are using TripIt. At each of these companies, employees book their business trips on a variety of travel and supplier websites, and then use TripIt to automatically organize their trips and put their full itineraries on their mobile phones.

New app improves traveler productivity and streamlines enterprise collaboration

SAN FRANCISCO, March 9, 2010 -- TripIt (www.tripit.com), the trip management company, today announced their launch in the Google Apps Marketplace^TM, Google's recently launched online storefront for Google Apps^TM products and services. The new TripIt app helps companies organize their travel plans and view a company travel map, improving traveler productivity and streamlining enterprise collaboration.

"TripIt helps business travelers manage their travel information," commented Gregg Brockway, TripIt co-founder and president. "And by integrating our new Groups feature into Google Apps, the TripIt app helps travelers at companies to collaborate on their travel plans."

Accelerates investment in mobile applications and enterprise collaboration

SAN FRANCISCO, March 4, 2010 -- TripIt, the trip management company, has closed a third round of funding, receiving $7 million from a group of investors led by Azure Capital Partners and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. These funds will be used to accelerate TripIt’s cloud-based web service to reach more business travelers, as well as new services for mobile and enterprise collaboration at global companies.

Earlier this week, TripIt announced TripIt Groups that gives business travelers an easy way to collaborate on travel planning with other colleagues inside their company. Groups adds to other recently-launched business travel services from TripIt, including free mobile apps for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry, and the TripIt Pro premium service for frequent travelers.

Helps business travelers and their companies get more out of their travel programs

SAN FRANCISCO, March 2, 2010 -- TripIt, the trip management company, today announced TripIt Groups which gives business travelers an easy way to see where and when other employees in their company are traveling. With TripIt Groups, an employee simply joins their company's group on TripIt and can instantly see other employees on their company's travel map. By providing better travel visibility, Groups helps business travelers get more out of their trips, and companies get more out of their travel programs.

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