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Most popular France travel websites - November 13 2010
By PhocusWire | November 18, 2010
Most popular travel websites in France for the week ending November 13 2010.... Read More
TripAdvisor not particularly worried about Facebook, but Google is another thing
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TripAdvisor not particularly worried about Facebook, but Google is another thing
By Kevin May | November 17, 2010
The annual interview with TripAdvisor CEO Steve Kaufer at the PhoCusWright conference touched briefly on the various elephants in the room.... 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 how General Motors, Kayak and private equity-held companies are faring in their IPO efforts, an official said.... Read More
Most popular Australia travel websites - November 13 2010
By PhocusWire | November 17, 2010
Most popular travel websites in Australia for the week ending November 13 2010.... Read More
Kayak will add booking path to website, Swoodoo will be like Sidestep
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Kayak will add booking path to website, Swoodoo will be like Sidestep
By Kevin May | November 17, 2010
So perhaps delegates here were expecting CEO Steve Hafner to give away some insight around Kayak's decision to IPO this morning.... 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 “throw too much down a pipe until you know it works.”... 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 cardholders purchasing flights with their cards would be able to receive Yapta's price monitoring and price assurance services.... Read More
Google-ITA Software deal: Google fires major broadside at FairSearch
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Google-ITA Software deal: Google fires major broadside at FairSearch
By Viewpoints | November 17, 2010
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 US travel websites - November 13 2010
By PhocusWire | November 17, 2010
Most popular travel websites in the US for the week ending November 13 2010.... Read More
Moderately successful predictions and feedback on travel innovators
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Moderately successful predictions and feedback on travel innovators
By Tim Hughes | November 17, 2010
Democracy has spoken and the Travel Innovation Summit 2010 finalists are SilverRail, Hipmunk, Goby Technologies and Kony Solutions.... Read More
TLabs Showcase - Revinate
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TLabs Showcase - Revinate
By Kevin May | November 17, 2010
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based travel review and other social media monitoring service Revinate.... Read More
Google-ITA Software deal: The infographic
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Google-ITA Software deal: The infographic
By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne | November 17, 2010
So here is a diagram outlining the core issue Google thinks it is trying to solve with the purchase of ITA Software.... 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 on ITA Software.... 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 this morning by filing for an IPO in the US.... 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 a deal to use ITA Software's QPX solution for airfare shopping and pricing.... Read More