Egencia partners with Concur to make business travel simple

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In an effort to make business travel more seamless, Egencia is partnering with Concur, the Redmond maker of travel and entertainment expense management software. Users who book and manage trips through Egencia, the Expedia-owned business travel management company, will now have the option of using Concur Expense right from the Egencia website, and vice versa for customers using the Concur… Read More…

Personal travel assistant: Expedia updates mobile app with real-time itinerary

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Nearly 18 months ago, Expedia laid out a vision to become a “Web 3.0 personal travel assistant,” for the mobile world. Now, we’re seeing some of those plans come to fruition. In what Expedia is calling its “biggest mobile launch ever,” the Bellevue-based company updated its mobile app today with a neat new itinerary feature… Read More…

Microsoft, Expedia, others file complaint over Google’s domain name ‘land grab’

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Fairsearch.org, a lobbying group whose backers include Microsoft, Expedia, TripAdvisor and Nokia, has filed objections over Google’s attempts to take control of genric top-level domains such as .search, .fly, .map and more than 100 other extensions. Calling it a domain name “land grab,” Farisearch argues in its complaint to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and… Read More…

CFOs on the hot seat: Students tell Expedia and Zillow execs how they could improve

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Expedia’s Mark Okerstrom and Zillow’s Chad Cohen are accustomed to fielding tough questions from Wall Street analysts. But the chief financial officers were on a hot seat of a different sort last Wednesday as a group of accounting and business students at Seattle University presented their findings about both companies, sharing insights on everything from… Read More…

Florida court hands victory to Expedia, other online travel companies over lodging tax

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Expedia and other online travel companies won a crucial decision this week when the The First District Court of Appeals in Florida ruled that the travel companies do not have to impose hotel occupancy taxes. “Our members maintain the same ambition now as we did prior to litigation: to successfully encourage travelers and tourists worldwide to… Read More…

Expedia revenue hits $975M on strength of hotel business

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Expedia is flying high again. The Bellevue-based online travel giant today posted fourth quarter revenue of $975 million, a 24 percent increase over the same period in 2011. For the year, the company topped $4 billion in revenue, a 17 percent increase. Net income dropped to $6.9 million, down from $70 million for the same… Read More…

Turn your travel photos into a movie with Expedia’s ‘Find Yours’ app

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Toss out iMovie and Windows Movie Maker — Expedia’s new app is turning your travel photos into a mini-movie with a few clicks. “Facebook is already the world’s largest repository of travel pictures,” claims an Expedia press release. “Soon, it may become the world’s largest de facto travel movie studio.” As part of its “Find… Read More…

Expedia leads $30M deal in hotel search startup Room 77

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Expedia is leading a $30.3 million investment in Room 77, an online travel startup whose search service is designed to help people find the perfect hotel room. Though based in Mountain View, California, Room 77 has multiple connections to the Seattle online travel industry. Other investors in the company include Expedia founder and Zillow Chairman… Read More…

The top tech stocks of 2012: Shares of Expedia take off

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Super computers. Online travel. And marketing tools for real estate agents. Those were the hot segments in the Seattle tech sector in 2012 as Cray, Expedia and Market Leader each saw their stock prices more than double. Generally speaking, it was a solid year for tech stocks, with the Nasdaq up 14 percent on the… Read More…