So perhaps delegates here were expecting CEO Steve Hafner to give away some insight around Kayak's decision to IPO this morning.... Read More

Vacation rental leader HomeAway has been finding religion in ecommerce, but doesn’t feel it should “throw too much down a pipe until you know it works.”... Read More

Yapta and MasterCard plan to begin a beta in December in which MasterCard consumer and small business cardholders purchasing flights with their cards would be able to receive Yapta's price monitoring and price assurance services.... Read More

Google has launched a significant attack on the FairSearch campaign group as it tries to defend its acquisition of ITA Software from what it calls "complainers".... Read More

Most popular travel websites in the US for the week ending November 13 2010.... Read More

Democracy has spoken and the Travel Innovation Summit 2010 finalists are SilverRail, Hipmunk, Goby Technologies and Kony Solutions.... Read More

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based travel review and other social media monitoring service Revinate.... Read More

So here is a diagram outlining the core issue Google thinks it is trying to solve with the purchase of ITA Software.... Read More

There are some juicy details in its S-1 filing about Kayak's financial obligations to and dependence on ITA Software.... Read More

Travel search site Kayak threw a huge curveball into the increasingly turbulent metasearch landscape this morning by filing for an IPO in the US.... Read More

Hipmunk, a metasearch startup which sees its mission as taking the agony out of flight search, signed a deal to use ITA Software's QPX solution for airfare shopping and pricing.... Read More

The first selection of the Travel Innovation Summit featured a variety of interesting contenders, some more so than others, including veterans Goby and 2009 winner Amadeus.... Read More

TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based loyalty scheme service UsingMiles.... Read More

If the next stage in airfare bargain hunting is split tickets, then Travel Guard and Vayant Travel Technologies are working on getting a travel insurance product in place that would cover tickets on different carriers where there is no interline agreement.... Read More

Live blog and updates from the PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit on Tuesday 16 November 2010.... Read More