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Expedia wants quick-strike teams, but on social media going slow
By Dennis Schaal | November 18, 2010
How does the world's largest travel company, Expedia Inc., respond to the mind-numbing changes in the... Read More
Expedia gets mobile with planned Mobiata acquisition
By Dennis Schaal | November 18, 2010
Expedia just ramped up its mobile strategy with a planned acquisition of Mobiata, which develops... Read More
Google gets into metasearch after a fashion with Boutiques.com
By Dennis Schaal | November 18, 2010
Google intends to "provide shoppers with a much richer and interactive shopping experience and help... Read More
Road trip -- coalition to steer study of the underserved drive market
By Dennis Schaal | November 18, 2010
With airline commissions a relic and some carriers pushing supplier-direct strategies, the American... Read More
Clarke: Travelport watching Kayak, General Motors IPO efforts
By Dennis Schaal | November 17, 2010
Travelport is keeping its options open about going public and is gauging its prospects as it observes... Read More
Sharples of HomeAway: We are finding ecommerce religion, but …
By Dennis Schaal | November 17, 2010
Vacation rental leader HomeAway has been finding religion in ecommerce, but doesn’t feel it should... Read More
Yapta, MasterCard enter into flight price assurance agreement
By Dennis Schaal | November 17, 2010
Yapta and MasterCard plan to begin a beta in December in which MasterCard consumer and small business... Read More
Kayak to pay ITA Software at least $21M over three years
By Dennis Schaal | November 17, 2010
There are some juicy details in its S-1 filing about Kayak's financial obligations to and dependence... Read More
Kayak files for IPO
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Kayak files for IPO
By Dennis Schaal | November 17, 2010
Travel search site Kayak threw a huge curveball into the increasingly turbulent metasearch landscape... Read More
Hipmunk, ITA Software team to take the agony out of availability and pricing
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Hipmunk, ITA Software team to take the agony out of availability and pricing
By Dennis Schaal | November 16, 2010
Hipmunk, a metasearch startup which sees its mission as taking the agony out of flight search, signed... Read More
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