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Priceline Group makes move into ground transportation with Rideways launch

By Kevin May | November 8, 2016

Ground transportation is in the cross hairs of the Priceline Group as it starts rolling out a new brand known as Rideways. The service has been developed quietly within the RentalCars division of t Read More

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Priceline Group rises on solid financial fundamentals

By Sean O'Neil | November 7, 2016

Hedge funds have long had a crush on Priceline Group. In autumn 2015, they ran up its stock price to above $1,400 a share, after the company signed an semi-exclusive deal with TripAdvisor to partic Read More

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Rumours versus reality (with a bit of mischief thrown in) for travel search

By Kevin May | October 21, 2016

Even before the latest in a Long Line Of Unsubstantiated Rumours about Skyscanner materialised, many were pondering the fate of the travel search sector this week. The trigger, somewhat inevitably, Read More

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Booking.com eyes Asia-Pacific for next move in global domination chess game

By Kevin May | October 20, 2016

Be warned, Asia-Pacific: Booking.com has big ambitions for the region and wants to replicate the success it had in Europe. The Priceline Group-owned online travel agency carved out a considerable p Read More

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Kayak claims time is right for APAC attack, but regrets not investing in Qunar

By Kevin May | October 19, 2016

Kayak will embark on its first significant push in the Asia-Pacific region in 2017, years after missing out on investing in one of China's hottest web properties. The travel search brand, which has Read More

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British Airways boasts NDC capabilities with Kayak booking deal

By Kevin May | September 7, 2016

"Facilitated booking" on metasearch engines is nothing new - but British Airways is making a fairly big thing of talking about a deal with Kayak that uses the IATA NDC standard. The collaboration b Read More

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Direct hotel booking battle - a potted history [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kevin May | August 23, 2016

The seeds of the current face-off between hotels and intermediaries go back to the mid-1990s, when online travel agencies first arrived on the scene. The creation of Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, L Read More

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Metasearch mobile war begins: Skyscanner integrates hotels and car rental

By Kevin May | July 21, 2016

It's been a long time coming, but Skyscanner can finally go head-to-head with arch-rival Kayak on their respective mobile applications. The UK-based metasearch engine has this week added both hotel Read More

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Expedia buys travel photo sharing and destination guide Trover

By Kevin May | July 21, 2016

Funny how these things turn out - but Expedia Inc has bought the once heavily touted Trover for an undisclosed fee. In short, Trover is a social travel guide in pictures, on desktop and mobile, ena Read More

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Booking.com dips toe in waters of attraction tickets, under the guise of AI platform

By Kevin May | July 14, 2016

Booking.com has finally moved into the complex world of tours and activities with the pilot of a new service on its mobile app. Until now, the Priceline Group-operated hotel giant has worked with t Read More

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Startup pitch: Avuxi locates a way for OTAs and metas to lift conversions

By Martin Cowen | July 7, 2016

Mapping technologies are one of the internet's most useful contributions to the sum of human knowledge. In an online travel context, maps are part of the decision-making process. Business traveller Read More

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Kayak debuts an ambitious Facebook Messenger bot

By Sean O'Neil | June 29, 2016

In the past five weeks, online travel companies have been rolling out their bots for Facebook messenger. First to jump in was Skyscanner, followed by Expedia, and Hipmunk. Metasearch rival Cheap Read More

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Required: one mobile app to rule them all and a touch of virtual reality

By Kevin May | June 13, 2016

More than half of travellers would like a mobile app that covers every aspect of their transportation needs, a survey of consumers has found. The Priceline Group asked American travellers about the Read More

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Kayak continues to integrate HomeAway's rental inventory into metasearch

By Sean O'Neil | June 8, 2016

This past winter, vacation rental giant HomeAway began adding inventory to travel metasearch giant Kayak. Kayak, owned by Priceline Group, is currently testing the best way to display HomeAway’s va Read More

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Kayak adds tours and activities to its travel metasearch [UPDATED]

By Sean O'Neil | May 31, 2016

A month ago Tnooz reported that Kayak would soon create a tours and activities channel. That day has arrived, with inventory now appearing on the Priceline Group-owned metasearch brand's various in Read More

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