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Kayak partners with Veritas to offer self-collection COVID tests to travelers
By Mitra Sorrells
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May 10, 2021
Kayak users can order the kits through a link on the metasearch site that gives them discounted pricing.
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Hipmunk founders launch Flight Penguin to take on Kayak in metasearch
By Jill Menze
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April 5, 2021
Founded by Hipmunk's Adam Goldstein and Steve Huffman, Flight Penguin is a Chrome extension that shows "unbiased and uncorrupted" search results.
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Sounding Off: Brave or foolhardy - a tip of the hat for trying
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March 12, 2021
There will be some who consider it a brand extension too far; others will admire Kayak for simply having a go at something new.
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Kayak opening hotel, developing hotel tech in partnership with Life House
By Mitra Sorrells
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March 9, 2021
Kayak will open Kayak Miami Beach in April and will use the property as a "design lab" to develop hotel technology.
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Expedia Group and Booking Holdings slashed marketing by $6B in 2020 (but Airbnb now makes an entrance)
By Kevin May
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March 2, 2021
The body check on marketing spend by the two giants of online travel in 2020 ends a run of gradually slowing increases in prior years.
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VIDEO: Kayak's Steve Hafner on pandemics, strategy and survival
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January 5, 2021
Honest and interesting - just with fewer wisecracks than during normal years. That was Kayak CEO Steve Hafner's appearance at The Phocuswright Conference 2020.
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VIDEO: Booking Holdings' Glenn Fogel on getting it right for a post-pandemic future
By Kevin May
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December 7, 2020
When you're often at the center of the relationship between accommodation providers and consumers, or figuring out how best to connect all the elements together in a trip, being Booking Holdings during...
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Booking Holdings sees uptick in Q3 bookings driven by domestic travel
By Jill Menze
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November 5, 2020
Despite the coronavirus pandemic continuing to “weigh heavily” on Booking Holdings’ financial performance, the online travel giant saw marked improvement in the third quarter of 2020 compared to Q2 of...
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Booking.com launches flight search and booking in the U.S.
By Kevin May
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October 22, 2020
U.S. customers can now search, book and pay for air tickets on Booking.com, a year after flights were introduced in some European countries.
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Booking Holdings feels "full impact" of coronavirus as gross bookings plunge 91% in Q2 2020
By Jill Menze
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August 6, 2020
CEO Glenn Fogel believes it will be years and not quarters before the travel market returns to pre-COVID dollars.
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Booking.com cuts workforce by a quarter as pandemic bites
By Kevin May
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August 4, 2020
Almost 4,500 employees working for Booking.com are being laid off. Details about who and where will be figured out in the coming weeks.
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Booking Holdings Q1 gross bookings plummet 51%, total revenue down 19%
By Mitra Sorrells
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May 7, 2020
Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel says it will take "years - not quarters" for the travel industry to recover, as the company saw its gross bookings drop more than 50% in the first quarter of 2020.
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Sounding Off: Startups should consider giving something away for the greater good
By PhocusWire
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February 14, 2020
Peak Kayak and its investment/acquisition policy might seem alien to many startups or growing businesses as we enter the 2020s, but it shouldn't be ruled out for fear of dilution of the potential...
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How I Got Here, episode 24 - Steve Hafner of Kayak
By PhocusWire
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February 13, 2020
When the definitive history of online travel is written in the decades to come, Steve Hafner will be remembered for many things - one of which being his part in creating Kayak in 2004.
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How Google Flights is shaking up the travel Industry
By Mario Gavira
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February 12, 2020
Although Google’s recent decision to stop charging for leads to airlines and OTAs in Google Flights might look insignificant to other Big Tech moves in recent decades, it is sending shockwaves across...
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