On my recent vacation to Europe, I traveled without folded maps, paper guidebooks and journals, or physical backup copies of my passport, rail pass and other critical documents. Instead, I relied only on my smartphone – even though it was disconnected from cellular voice and data service for the full ten days. Think of it as the… Read More…
Concur CEO Steve Singh suffered a punctured lung and other injuries in a bike accident in Hawaii this past weekend, causing the technology executive to miss the company’s big Fusion client and partner event taking place in Las Vegas this week. In a message to GeekWire, Singh said that he was on Spring Break with… Read More…
Ari Steinberg has been pretty quiet ever since he left Facebook last year to start a new online travel startup. And while we still don’t know too much about what Steinberg is cooking up, we do know who is joining him on the voyage. Shahaf Abileah, a former engineer at Microsoft and Redfin, has joined… Read More…
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…
Entrepreneur Tony Wright made a bit of a stir last May when he announced plans to leave Seattle for Silicon Valley to build his next company: Tomo. Now, Wright, the founder of RescueTime and Jobby and a well known fixture in the Seattle tech scene, is chucking it all for … an around-the-world adventure. In… Read More…
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…
Concur continues on its quest to deliver the perfect travel experience to business travelers, and today it added another piece to that goal by purchasing conTgo in a deal of undisclosed size. Based in Australia and the UK, conTgo offers a number of services that are designed to make the travel experience more efficient. One… Read More…
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…
Walk Score is best known for their rankings of residences, assigning a score on a scale of 1 to 100 on how easy it is to walk to bus stops, restaurants and grocery stores. But the Seattle startup is doing a lot more, and this week took the wraps off a nifty little project they… Read More…
No wonder that Expedia’s stock has been soaring — up more than 90 percent in the past year and one of the top performers in Seattle tech for 2012. A new report out from comScore indicates that U.S. travel e-commerce hit $103 billion last year — the first time it has topped $100 billion and… Read More…
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