Kayak Launches Direct Hotel Booking Feature as It Preps for an IPO
Travel search company Kayak has just announced that it will begin handling hotel reservations itself, rather than just referring customers to its partner sites when they are ready to book a room. This...
View ArticleHotmail Adds LivingSocial, Posterous, And More To Active Views Platform
Microsoft Hotmail doesn’t get much love in Silicon Valley these days, but the service has been steadily making improvements to the product, particularly over the last 18 months or so. And today it’s...
View ArticleRome2rio Is Google Maps With Airfare, Train And Driving Options
Ever wanted know the best way to get from point A to point B? rome2rio, headed by two ex-Microsoft engineers, is a search engine that attempts to do exactly that. Like an international Zoombu.co.uk or...
View ArticleVayable Is A Marketplace For Unique Travel Experiences
Like an Airbnb for travel experiences, secondary market place Vayable launches today to offer travelers the opportunity to buy experiences in exotic locales all over the world, from Rome to Rio as the...
View ArticleCourt Demands American Airlines List Its Flights On Orbitz
schwit1 writes “American Airlines, which removed its flights from Orbitz.com late last year, was ordered by a Chicago court on Thursday to allow the travel site access to its flight and fare...
View ArticleHow We Used 15 Minutes To Save $600 On Airfare
My girlfriend and I are renting an apartment in Paris for a week this summer, which is the first real vacation I have taken since 2006, when I went to Dublin to run a marathon then spend a week...
View ArticleGoogle Flight Search Goes Mobile
Google has expanded its new flight search results to the mobile Web. Last year, Google added a new category of in-house search results for flights to Google.com on the desktop. They’re now available...
View ArticleOn Orbitz, Mac Users Offered Pricier Hotels First
An anonymous reader writes “Travel site Orbitz found out that Mac users tend to select pricer rooms and swanky hotels. So, from now on, they will show more expensive hotel options to Mac users than to...
View ArticleOrbitz Pitches More Expensive Hotels to Mac Users
Travel site Orbitz has confirmed that it uses predictive analytics to show Mac users different and more expensive hotels in search results than Windows users might see. It’s still not clear how...
View ArticleOrbitz Pitches More Expensive Hotels to Mac Users
Travel site Orbitz has confirmed that it uses predictive analytics to show Mac users different and more expensive hotels in search results than Windows users might see. It’s still not clear how...
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