Google intends to "provide shoppers with a much richer and interactive shopping experience and help drive traffic to retailers' websites."... Read More

With some of the worst of the recession looking to be behind us, perhaps the travel industry is benefitting from an increase in consumer confidence.... Read More

With airline commissions a relic and some carriers pushing supplier-direct strategies, the American Society of Travel Agents joined a coalition sponsoring a study of how travel agents and the trade can address the seemingly forgotten drive market.... Read More

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The annual interview with TripAdvisor CEO Steve Kaufer at the PhoCusWright conference touched briefly on the various elephants in the room.... Read More

Travelport is keeping its options open about going public and is gauging its prospects as it observes how General Motors, Kayak and private equity-held companies are faring in their IPO efforts, an official said.... Read More

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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

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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