ELECTROBUG

Electrobug Technologies (www.electrobug.com) has developed a proprietary web crawling and data management technology used by the travel and retail sectors. Electrobug is focused on providing market research solutions for merchants, and automates data retrieval for a number of leading companies throughout Europe. These range from Sainsbury’s and Amazon, to Easyjet, Opodo, Lastminute and Expedia. The company offers an ASP data service and does not license its software to third parties. The compa... ny’s software has been evaluated by Expedia and Tesco to ensure it is friendly to target sites, and is currently being recommended by a number of companies as a potential industry standard for data retrieval. The company’s board comprises individuals with a wide range of travel expertise, including Esther Dyson (founder of ICANN and former board member of Manujistics), Colin Macklin (Thomas Cook), and Geoff Wood (TUI).More