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One, three. From Wondry, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Tuesday, December 4th.

If you were worn out by Cyber Monday, you may not have noticed

what happened the next day. A new so-called holiday, Travel Tuesday. It was a budget traveler's

dream day for scooping up bargain-priced flights. The day was heavily promoted by Travel App Company

Hopper, a Montreal-based startup that employs artificial intelligence

to predict the cheapest times in places to travel and the least expensive time to buy the tickets.

Hopper was founded by former Expedia travel exec, Frederick Lalonde, a self-taught Canadian programmer.

Years ago, Lalonde thought, what if artificial intelligence could help us predict not just the best times to fly, but when to book those flights?

His former employer, Expedia, provides a spreadsheet's worth of flight times and costs with no predictions.

The implication is you should book now because ticket prices

always rise. That's actually not true, and algorithms that Hopper figured out enable the app to tell

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