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Spafinder Wellness is to expand its Last Minute platform to Miami, Chicago and Los Angeles in November. The service has been designed to help spas, health clubs and wellness centres more easily fill open appointment times that previously would have gone un-booked.

A new CHI-branded spa is to open at Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore in October as part of the wider SG$66m (US$53.1m, EUR43m, £34.1m) revamp of the property's Garden Wing.

A new results-orientated skincare line and the latest light therapy technology will be on offer at the Spa at Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore, US, as the result of a partnership with B Kamins.

Daily deals website Groupon has launched its new Scheduler online booking system to provide businesses with the opportunity to manage their schedules and accept bookings directly.

Cloud-based management software provider GramercyOne and deals website Lifebooker have announced a partnership which will enable spas to market unfilled appointments through their business management software.

Pete Ellis, chair and CEO of SpaFinder, has launched WellTech, a new health and wellness-focused 'incubator' designed to support, develop and bring new technology companies to market. Selected firms using technology to devise new consumer health and wellness solutions will receive a minimum investment of US$50,000.

Online health and beauty marketplace Wahanda has secured a partnership agreement with deal website lastminute.com UK to manage the portal's spa category.

Cloud-based business management software provider GramercyOne has launched GoSuite, a free booking and marketing tool aimed at small and medium-sized service businesses.

GramercyOne, the company behind spa industry software SpaBooker, announced today that it has secured US$14.5m (10.5m euro, £9.2m) of VC funding from a raft of new backers led by Revolution Ventures - the company behind Living Social, spa resort Miraval and Exclusive Resorts.

Intelligenz Solutions, the Australia-based provider of integrated software for the fitness, spa, wellness and hospitality sector, has revealed plans to enter the UK market for the first time.