You know things have been rough for a company when quarterly revenue plummets 58% from the prior year, taking the business from a $409 million profit to a loss of… Read More
Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern says he hopes the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust complaint against Google ultimately changes the search giant’s behavior, and creates a fair marketplace for the online… Read More
— Expedia Group appointed Equifax President of Global Consumer Solutions Beverly Anderson as its newest board member. Prior to Equifax, Anderson was executive vice president of cards and retails services… Read More
Mark Okerstrom is shifting from travel and tourism to trucking, looking to apply his digital commerce expertise to a new marketplace. The former Expedia Group CEO, who left the travel… Read More
As the coronavirus pandemic took hold, Seattle’s Vanessa Dyce saw her community coming undone and wanted to help. Dyce, a software engineer, was looking for a cause she believed in… Read More
Expedia Group’s new CEO isn’t mincing words about one of the company’s biggest challenges: Google’s dual role as a rival in online travel, and a key source of customers through… Read More
Expedia Group raised $3.2 billion in debt and equity, named a longtime board member as its new CEO, announced additional cutbacks including employee furloughs and executive salary reductions, and released… Read More
— Location data companies Foursquare and Factual are merging. The combined company will be led by Placed founder David Shim under the Foursquare brand. Shim was named CEO of Foursquare… Read More
— Former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Amié joined the board of video game retailer GameStop. Also joining the board are William Simon, former president and CEO of Walmart U.S.,… Read More
Fears over the novel coronavirus outbreak and an oil price war led to the worst day for U.S. stocks since 2008 and a 15-minute halt in trading Monday. The Dow… Read More
— Seattle-based Lighter Capital announced Patricia Elliott as chief sales officer and Kevin Fink as chief technology officer. The “alternative VC” company landed a $100 million deal in January to… Read More
Expedia Group has been quiet about the status of its leadership following the abrupt departures of CEO Mark Okerstrom and CFO Alan Pickerill in early December. A new report indicates… Read More
Microsoft and Amazon are the centerpieces of Seattle’s booming tech scene, and 2019 was a big year for both of them. Microsoft eclipsed a market capitalization of $1 trillion and… Read More
Expedia Group CEO Mark Okerstrom and CFO Alan Pickerill have resigned abruptly from the Seattle-based online travel giant, and chairman Barry Diller is stepping in to run the company, citing… Read More
Thousands of Expedia Group employees are making the move to the company’s new $900 million Seattle headquarters campus, adding a long commute through one of the region’s busiest corridors for… Read More
Expedia Group is staring down Google as a looming giant in the field of travel, with the built-in advantage of its prowess as a search and advertising titan, but Expedia… Read More
The bustle of construction and prep work continues outside at the massive Seattle waterfront campus where Expedia will start moving the first waves of its 4,500 employees next week. Inside,… Read More
Travel giant Expedia Group is accused of “trafficking in confiscated property,” in a new lawsuit with ties to the Cuban Revolution, several huge resorts in a popular beach town and… Read More
What happens to Expedia if airlines and hotels opt to go it alone? The online travel giant has been facing that ominous question through a series of recent contract negotiations… Read More
Sam Altman, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor who leads the OpenAI artificial intelligence company, is joining the Expedia Group board. Expedia Group is expanding the board to 12 members… Read More
Expedia Group has started the countdown clock to the opening of its shiny new waterfront headquarters campus in Seattle. The first of 4,500 employees will descend on the 40-acre campus… Read More
In April 2015, then-Expedia Group CEO Dara Khosrowshahi stood beside Ed Murray, the Seattle mayor at the time, and gleefully shared the first details of Expedia’s surprising and ambitious plan:… Read More
Add one more voice to calls for regulation of Google: Barry Diller, chairman and senior executive of Expedia Group. Diller, interviewed by CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin during an event at… Read More
Longtime Microsoft design leader Sam Moreau is leaving the company for a new position at Expedia, GeekWire has learned. Moreau will lead design for Expedia’s brand in his new role as VP… Read More
SEEVA, a Seattle startup creating new technologies for autonomous vehicles, tapped Intellectual Ventures veteran Geoff Deane to serve as its first chief technology officer. Deane is most well known as the… Read More
Expedia is changing its name. It’s only a minor alteration, as Expedia Inc. has become Expedia Group. The new name brings it a little closer to one of Expedia co-founder… Read More