Hopper expands its airfare-prediction smarts to hotels

Hopper, a startup that has built its business by telling consumers the best time to purchase a flight, is expanding its predictive technology to cover hotels.
By way of a quick recap, Hopper was founded out of Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2010, and the company has gone on to raise $83 million in funding, including a $61 million round last December. Its formative years were spent archiving trillions of flight prices, which formed the basis for its predictive algorithms.
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