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TripIt Gets An ExIt – Acquired By Concur For Up To $120 Million

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This is terrible news for all of us. I am forced to use Concur at work and it is by far the worst web application I have ever used.. Hours of frustration every month because of their terrible UX and buggy and confusing UI.

I hope this is not the way TripIt is going because it is definitely the best thing to have happened to travelers in a long time.

I'm not quite ready to say that it's terrible news for us all; after all, the folks behind Concur could know just how bad their system is and be buying TripIt because they need something better.

Anything better.

The Concur website makes my eyes bleed, and the fact that you can't use their iPhone/iPad app without entering credit card information etc. on your company's Concur system is insane.

Hopefully, Concur will do the right thing and let the consumer portion of the TripIt brand stand and improve its enterprise crapware based on the TripIt brand.

The problem is that this rarely happens. Concur makes software for the enterprise. What I'm saying is that I hope TripIt doesn't turn into an enterprise software. Most enterprise software are pure garbage.

I'm saddened by this. They were my favorite web service and startup. Concur is probably going to shut the service down, or just freeze development on it.

Nokia acquired Dopplr and they abandoned it completely, that's why I switched to TripIt. Since the acquisition no development has happened with Dopplr, their latest blog post is from September 2009. Neither have I seen anything similar come out of Nokia.

Sad day.

Slightly disappointed - TripIt is one of the few web products released in the past five years that made me say "WOW. I need to tell everyone about this."

My wife managed bookings and travel for public speakers - TripIt probably saved her and her clients hundreds of hours last year. Given the amount of information they have about people's travel preferences and the high margins of online travel businesses, I'm surprised they were sold for so little.

Congrats to them. It's one of the best services I use on the web. It's changed the way I travel. I just hope Concur doesn't f it up.

Being acquired by a verb that is really a noun is a confusing read.

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