In 2015, the company acquired Iens, a Dutch restaurant review website SeatMe, a Dutch table reservation website, ZeTrip, Inc., including its product Rove, a personal journal app that helps users log activities including places they have visited and photos they have taken Portuguese startup BestTables, and Australian startup Dimmi for $25 million. In 2014, the company acquired Vacation Home Rentals Tripod LaFourchette, which became theFork, for $140 million Viator for $200 million Mytable Restopolis and Tripbod, a London-based travel community In 2013, the company acquired Jetsetter, a flash sale site GateGuru, a flight and airport information mobile app and, a hotel review and photography website. The company acquired Wanderfly, an NYC-based travel inspiration website, in October 2012. Tripadvisor store at Hong Kong International Airport In December 2011, Expedia completed the corporate spin-off of Tripadvisor into a public company. In July 2011, the company acquired Where I've Been, a Chicago-based Facebook app. In September 2010, SmarterTravel, part of TripAdvisor Media Group, launched SniqueAway (now Jetsetter), the first members-only site where each travel deal is endorsed by member reviews. In June 2010, the company acquired .uk, the largest independent vacation rental website in the United Kingdom. In August 2015, Kuxun was sold to Meituan. The company acquired Kuxun.cn, China's second-largest consumer travel site and hotel and flight search engine, in October 2009. In April 2009, Tripadvisor launched in China. In 2008, the company acquired Holiday Watchdog, a user-generated travel site in the United Kingdom Airfarewatchdog Virtualtourist, a travel website with reportedly about one million registered members, a travel comparison site and a majority stake in FlipKey, a vacation-rental website. In 2007, the company acquired Smarter Travel Media, operator of and The Independent Traveler, Inc., publisher of Cruise Critic and. In August 2005, IAC spun off its travel group of businesses under the Expedia, Inc. In 2004, the company was acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp. Seed money was obtained from Flagship Ventures, the Bollard Group, and private investors. In September 2000, before the website was launched, the company obtained $2 million in financing.
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