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The app helps with managing and scheduling destinations and trips. Nearly a decade after its launch , ETA 's simple drive times app is finally making its way to Apple CarPlay. The newly updated app, which offers an alternative first step to planning a trip, isn't meant to directly compete with mobile maps or other navigation apps. Instead, it serves as more of a "location dashboard" that can also sync with your calendar, showing you the travel times and traffic warnings to various destinations, like home, work, school, your next meeting, or anything else, across multiple forms of transport. When you're actually ready to go, ETA can kick off the navigation in the navigation app of your choice and share your arrival time with friends. Yes, it's a bit wild that such a tool would not have been available in the place where so much trip planning and navigation actually occurs: your vehicle. But ETA co-founder Anthony Harrison explains the team wasn't allowed to publish to CarPlay for most of ETA's existence because of Apple's rules. It wasn't until last year that Apple opened up CarPlay entitlements (a special set of permissions ) to a broader set of apps that ETA was able to build for the CarPlay platform, Harrison says. At issue, previously, was the fact that ETA wasn't technically a navigation app, so it hadn't been able to qualify. With Apple's loosened rules, ETA is finally able to offer its feature set to drivers, not just to iPhone and Apple Watch users as before. (And while we generally hesitate to use the word "finally" in reference to long-awaited launches, in this case – nine years later! – we think it's appropriate.) ETA hasn't radically evolved over the past several years in terms of its user interface and feature set – beyond taking advantage of platform improvements and updated design guidelines, that is. At its core, ETA is still very much the simple location dashboard it always was, an at-a-glance style utility, built to serve a single purpose, which often made the app preferable to a maps app for starting to plan your journey. The developers have also been quick to adopt various iOS and watchOS updates, like the support for widgets and complications that let you more easily track travel times without even having to open the app. Despite this, ETA remains something of an under-the-radar App Store find. Because of its various bugs (and sometimes user errors) over the years, the app's 3.8-star rating may cause some to overlook it. But developers are responsive to complaints and the app's staying power is a testament to its adoption among a loyal set of customers. The company notes it's had over 100,000 paying customers since its 2014 debut, which for their purposes is a success. We have to add that the app is also the now-rare paid download that doesn't bug you for a subscription after you've paid the initial $4.99 fee. It's refreshing. The new CarPlay-enabled version of ETA offers a similar set of functionality to its iPhone counterpart. In this case, you can put your favorite locations to drive to on your dash with the travel time and traffic conditions clearly displayed, Harrison tells us. With calendar integrations, your upcoming appointments and meetings are also shown with a recommended time to leave. And when you're ready to navigate, you can tap a location to start directions in your preferred navigation app. The updated version is live on the App Store now .

Drive times app ETA brings location dashboard to CarPlay

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Nearly a decade after its launch, ETA‘s simple drive times app is finally making its way to Apple’s CarPlay. The newly updated app, which offers an alternative first step to planning a trip, isn’t meant to directly compete with mobile maps or other navigation apps. Instead, it serves as more of a “location dashboard” that can also sync with your calendar, showing you the travel times and traffic warnings to various destinations, like home, work, school, your next meeting, or anything else, across multiple forms of transport. When you’re actually ready to go, ETA can kick off the navigation in the navigation app of your choice and share your arrival time with friends. Yes, it’s a bit wild that such a tool would not have been available in the place where so much trip planning and navigation actually occurs: your vehicle. But ETA co-founder Anthony Harrison explains the team wasn’t allowed to publish to CarPlay for most of ETA’s existence because of Apple’s rules. It wasn’t until last year that Apple opened up CarPlay entitlements (a special set of permissions) to a broader set of apps that ETA was able to build for the CarPlay platform, Harrison says. At issue, previously, was the fact that ETA wasn’t technically a navigation app, so it hadn’t been able to qualify. With Apple’s loosened rules, ETA is finally able to offer its feature set to drivers, not just to iPhone and Apple Watch users as before. (And while we generally hesitate to use the word “finally” in reference to long-awaited launches, in this case — nine years later! — we think it’s appropriate.) Image Credits: ETA
ETA hasn’t radically evolved over the past several years in terms of its user interface and feature set — beyond taking advantage of platform improvements and updated design guidelines, that is. At its core, ETA is still very much the simple location dashboard it always was, an at-a-glance style utility, built to serve a single purpose, which often made the app preferable to a maps app for starting to plan your journey. The developers have also been quick to adopt various iOS and watchOS updates, like the support for widgets and complications that let you more easily track travel times without even having to open the app. Despite this, ETA remains something of an under-the-radar App Store find. Because of its various bugs (and sometimes user errors) over the years, the app’s 3.8-star rating may cause some to overlook it. But developers are responsive to complaints and the app’s staying power is a testament to its adoption among a loyal set of customers. The company notes it’s had over 100,000 paying customers since its 2014 debut, which for their purposes is a success. We have to add that the app is also the now-rare paid download that doesn’t bug you for a subscription after you’ve paid the initial $4.99 fee. It’s refreshing. Image Credits: ETA
The new CarPlay-enabled version of ETA offers a similar set of functionality to its iPhone counterpart. In this case, you can put your favorite locations to drive to on your dash with the travel time and traffic conditions clearly displayed, Harrison tells us. With calendar integrations, your upcoming appointments and meetings are also shown with a recommended time to leave. And when you’re ready to navigate, you can tap a location to start directions in your preferred navigation app. The updated version is live on the App Store now. Source link

Drive times app ETA brings its handy location dashboard to CarPlay

Commuter app ETA arrives on CarPlay with travel times and traffic conditions
Zac Hall  | Jun 1 2023 - 1:04 pm PT
ETA is an iPhone and Apple Watch app dedicated to prominently displaying travel times and traffic conditions. The latest version of ETA puts that information on the screen in your car too. ETA version 2.7.0 is the first to support Apple CarPlay. Updating to this version on iPhone will automatically put ETA on the CarPlay app grid the next time you hit the road. What does CarPlay support mean for ETA users? The app goes beyond the built-in navigation features in Apple Maps. ETA users will now see favorite locations on CarPlay, along with travel time and traffic conditions for each address. It’s easy to jump into navigation from the favorites list too. Just tap on the destination in ETA, and Apple Maps will automatically start directions to the location. ETA, which costs $7.99 and offers in-app purchases for calendar sync and a theme library, is a great app citizen on iPhone. CarPlay is a harder hurdle to jump through due to strict rules and Apple’s entitlement system. Aside from newly added CarPlay support, ETA also supports the Apple Watch and watch face complications, iMessage, HealthKit for logging walking workouts, and various widgets. For more great CarPlay apps, check out our growing catalog of the best apps to try. If your car doesn’t support CarPlay, we’ve also updated our guide to the best aftermarket CarPlay receivers on the market.

Commuter app ETA arrives on CarPlay with travel times and traffic conditions

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Spend management company Coupa has acquired business travel app company ETA, according to reports . The company is looking to add more travel tech to its profile, alongside its larger agreement to acquire Yapta , the rate assurance provider. With the acquisition of ETA, Coupa now has the ability to do business travel booking like rival SAP Concour. ETA CEO and Co-Founder Choon Hong Peck confirmed that the transaction had gone through. Peck and associates seemed to agree that it was futile to compete with larger companies in the travel field, although the company said it wanted to do more in the digital field. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, which decimated travel, ETA on its own worked through travel support and fulfillment for customers. Donna Wilczek, Coupa’s vice president of project strategy innovation, said in an interview earlier this year prior to the pandemic, that the acquisition of Yapta may or may not end up foretelling a change in the company’s business model. Wilczek said the company is “continually looking at companies and tech assets that can optimize the value,” and that travel was the focus of many facets of business such as procurement, invoicing, payment and expenses. Wilczek also said the company isn’t necessarily trying to compete with travel management companies as it is mostly subscription based. Instead of looking to buy services companies that would fit under the TMC banner, Coupa is looking more toward broad lenders in various arenas. It is unknown as of yet how Coupa will use ETA or whether it will build a desktop companion, price things differently or continue to use Travelport to run its app. Evercore ISI analyst Peter Levine said Coupa’s actions as of late show its tenacity, as with its built-up $700 million in cash and equivalents, the company might be feeling emboldened to act while values are slipping due to the pandemic. ——————————

Coupa Acquires Corporate Travel App Developer

Khari Johnson @kharijohnson
December 28, 2016 10:56 AM
Tags: Airbnb , Ali Express , Apple , Cobi Hoops , Doordash , Fam , Giphy , Giphy Cam , iMessage , iMessage App Store , jet , opentable , SeatGeek , Tinder , Tinder Stack , Voo Plan , Wordie
This is a look at some of the most popular and unique offerings available in the iMessage App Store. It’s not a ranking of apps based on popularity, because if we did a list from 1 to 10, it would only be stickers and games like rock paper scissors, and that’s not very interesting. Instead, we chose these apps across categories to demonstrate a broader, more interesting range of apps and app extensions. Keep in mind that nothing in the iMessage App Store has been available for even three months yet. Did we miss something? Ping @kharijohnson on Twitter. 1. Fam
In short order, Fam appears to have become the biggest success story in the iMessage App Store so far. Fam was released earlier this month and claims to have already racked up more than a million downloads. It’s now at #2 in the Top Free app category of the iMessage App Store behind GamePigeon, a collection of about a dozen games you can play with friends. As this Fortune profile explains, Fam was made by Spark, a Boston-based company with three employees. After receiving $2 million in seed funding and launching a video chat app by another name, Fam was an experiment, a weekend project at a time Spark was nearly out of money. A Fam app is under development now to keep group video chat calls from ending when you leave iMessage. A week or two after the launch of Fam came  Looksy , another iMessage app that streams live video. 2. Tinder Stack
Tinder Stack is like making a visual poll so your friends or family can pick their favorite picture. Like Tinder, you just swipe right to approve, left to reject. This is not connected to the Tinder app for dating, though it is a smart way to make sure you don’t look like an axe murderer in your Tinder profile pics. You don’t have to limit your visual polling to dating profile pics. You can use it to select your outfit for a job interview, choose between birthday cake ideas you hunted down on Pinterest, or (this is harsh, but) your next date. 3. Momento
This is sort of like the Motion Stills app from Google that makes a GIF from every photo you take, except Momento groups together photos taken in a burst or in succession to create a GIF. While Motion Stills requires Live mode, Momento goes back through your old shots to make new GIFs. For that alone it’s worth giving Momento a shot, just to see what it turns up. This is an iMessage app, not an extension, meaning it only functions in iMessage. It runs into the same problem Fam does: Leave iMessage and you lose your place. 4. GIPHY Cam
You can use GIPHY Cam to put on a turkey hat, pop digital champagne bottles, dance with tacos, or toss in some crying Michael Jordan. You’ve really got a lot of options to make different GIFs. Like JibJab, GIPHY Cam is an iMessage app extension, so if you’re familiar with that app, you won’t discover anything new here — it just brings the JibJab-like app inside iMessage. And like JibJab, fooling around with this app can be a lot of fun. 5. Wordie
Wordie lets you create puzzles out of photos or GIFs. You can then share your puzzles with friends or add them to the larger Walkie online community. Creator The Fast Mind added the ability to make your own puzzles in November . For iMessage, multiplayer games like Words with Friends are among the most popular apps, not just in games but in the entire iMessage App Store. Wordie is currently #17 in the iMessage App Store top free category (although it’s more like top 5 if you place stickers in a separate category). 6. Cobi Hoops
Take a glance at the most popular games in the iMessage App Store and you’ll find some pretty basic stuff: not just chess and checkers, but also rock paper scissors and Battleship. In that vein, Cobi Hoops lets each person shoot basketball free throws for 30 seconds in a tit-for-tat competition. It doesn’t bring a lot of complexity to the table, but it’s fun and you can get into it. 7. Jet
From the ecommerce startup acquired by Walmart for $3 billion earlier this year , this app extension lets you share a shopping cart with family or friends and invite them to add their own items so you can shop together. As easy as that sounds, it’s a group shopping experience that’s heads and shoulders above most of its competition, both in the iMessage App Store and other bot ecosystems. 8. Ali Express
There are iMessage apps and app extensions for big-ticket items like cars and homes from Edmunds and Zillow, but day-to-day purchases are a different breed. From Alibaba Group, Ali Express brings you shopping deals that change every three hours. It really makes you wonder why Amazon isn’t offering the same in an iMessage app. 9. Voo Plan
Most people are creatures of habit who really only go to a half dozen places on a regular basis. That’s exactly how I live my life. Voo Plan and its app let you organize events with a group of people who know what they like. Other location-based apps that want to track your every move may be overthinking it, cofounder Chris Turlica told VentureBeat. Voo Plan keeps track of you and your friends’ favorite places, then helps you pick similar places to go nearby that match everyone’s taste. The app incorporates location data from Google and your calendar. Once you choose a time, date, and location, you can share the Voo Plan itinerary in iMessage. The I’m In app is another popular event-planning choice from the iMessage App Store worth trying. 10. ETA
ETA is a quick, easy way to share your location and expected time of arrival. You get to choose whether to share your walking, bike, car, or public transit. This feels a hell of a lot like the sort of thing you get and wonder why you ever lived without it. If you live in a congested city like San Francisco where any form of transportation can hit traffic, this is a handy, practical use case. Honorable mention worth trying
This spot is shared by Airbnb, Seatgeek, OpenTable, and DoorDash, apps that can help you plan your next trip, your next night out, or make dinner plans. Each app extension brings some of the app’s functionality into iMessage. All offer a relatively seamless experience and are worth trying.

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The travel tech collection includes companies offering tech-enabled services and products for tourists and travel players (hotels, airlines, airports, cruises, etc.). It excludes financial services and micro-mobility solutions.

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ETA is an executive travel app. ETA addresses the need of the unmanaged business traveller. It integrates with a user's calendar and automatically creates an itinerary based on his or her preferences. If the chosen itinerary does not work, other options are made available. The app also factors in hotels, and the whole journey can be booked with one click. Ground transportation can be booked through the app; lounge access can be purchased; the app even feeds in social media posts by other travelers relevant to the journey.

On May 6th, 2020, ETA was acquired by Coupa. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Date	Round	Amount	Investors	Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model.	Revenue	Sources
5/6/2020	Acquired		Coupa	$XXM	0 FY undefined	1
10/20/2015	Seed VC		Subscribe to see more	$XXM	0 FY undefined	10

Date	5/6/2020	10/20/2015
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Valuation	$XXM	$XXM
Revenue	0 FY undefined	0 FY undefined
Sources	1	10

First funding	Last Funding	Investor	Rounds	Board Seats	Type	Location
5/6/2020	5/6/2020	Coupa	1 Acquired		Corporation	California
00/00/0000	00/00/0000	NDC Innovation Fund	Subscribe to see more		Venture Capital	Canada

First funding	5/6/2020	00/00/0000
Last Funding	5/6/2020	00/00/0000
Investor	Coupa	NDC Innovation Fund
Rounds	1 Acquired	Subscribe to see more
Board Seats
Type	Corporation	Venture Capital
Location	California	Canada

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