— Sandy Anuras is leaving Blokable, a Seattle startup with a mission to develop low-cost housing at scale, to join Expedia as vice president of global marketing technology. This is… Read More
Aman Bhutani, the veteran Expedia Group business and tech leader who oversees online travel businesses including Travelocity, Orbitz and the flagship Expedia brand, is leaving the company to pursue another… Read More
Expedia posted healthy revenue and earnings growth for Q2 2019, sending the stock up 2 percent in after-hours trading on Thursday. Revenue: Revenues for the quarter increased 9 percent to… 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
Expedia Group agreed to pay more than $325,000 to settle allegations that it assisted more than 2,200 people with Cuba-related travel, in apparent violation of U.S. regulations. The settlement, announced… Read More
Connie Chung loves tech and she loves travel. And in 11 years at Expedia Group, the Bellevue, Wash.-based travel technology company, she’s gotten to combine both. Chung, our latest Geek… Read More
Travel booking giant Expedia came up short of revenue estimates for the first quarter of the year, sending the stock down as much as 5 percent in after-hours trading. Revenue:… Read More
Expedia plans to buy out Liberty Expedia, a holding company that controls millions of shares in the online travel giant, in a move that is meant to simplify the company’s… Read More
Expedia is getting closer to moving into its prized Seattle waterfront campus, and the financial details of the massive project are coming into clearer view. The price tag for the… Read More
Expedia closed out 2018 by besting Wall Street expectations for revenue while sharply increasing profits and the amount people are spending on the platform. Revenue: Expedia reported $2.56 billion in… Read More
Expedia is beating the drum that Google is a serious threat to its business — if not an existential one. Expedia Group CEO Mark Okerstrom made that case for the… Read More
Expedia is less than a year away from opening the doors of its massive new Seattle campus, and today it shared the latest designs for the project. Set to open… Read More
Expedia wants to be the world’s travel platform. China is standing in its way. Expedia faces fierce competition in the Chinese market, both from powerful domestic firms like Ctrip and… Read More
Expedia Group acquired a pair of companies that make it easier to list apartments on short-term rental sites like Airbnb or the travel giant’s subsidiary HomeAway. Expedia said Thursday it… Read More
Expedia unveiled a new virtual reality experience today that takes viewers to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula to see and swim in the cenote pools that were important pieces of Mayan culture.… Read More
Seattle startup Migo is raising more cash to help grow its transportation search engine app across North America. The company announced a $9 million Series A investment round that included… Read More
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Amazon has scooped up the Bellevue, Wash., Expedia headquarters building that the travel giant will soon vacate as it prepares to move into its new waterfront headquarters in Seattle. Equity… Read More
Expedia Group posted $2.88 billion in revenue across all of its brands, up 11 percent year-over-year and meeting analyst expectations for the second quarter. The Bellevue, Wash.-based travel giant posted $1.45… Read More
When Amazon enters, or even thinks about entering, new markets, entire industries sit at the edge of their seats — a sign of the e-commerce giant’s industry-moving potential. This was… Read More
Tony Donohoe, Expedia Inc.’s chief technology officer, is leaving the Bellevue, Wash.-based online travel giant after seven years as one of its key engineering leaders, according to an internal email… Read More
Expedia Chief People Officer Nikki Krishnamurthy is leaving the travel giant, GeekWire has learned. Krishnamurthy led the company’s global human resources strategy. She first joined Bellevue, Wash.-based Expedia in 2009… Read More
Expedia Group generated $2.5 billion in revenue in the first quarter across all of its brands, and $27.2 billion in gross bookings during the quarter, beating analyst expectations. The Bellevue,… Read More
This week’s going to be a doozy in the Seattle tech scene. On tap are a trio of IPOs from Washington state companies — two from the Seattle area and… Read More
Dara Khosrowshahi has become one of the world’s most influential technology executives by spending more than a decade thinking about how people get around. It’s fitting, then, that The New… 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
Travel site Orbitz, which is owned by Expedia, said a “legacy travel booking platform” was likely hacked last year, exposing close to two years of customer data. The company disclosed… Read More
Expedia Inc. has cut about 30 jobs from its technology infrastructure and operations teams, most of them at the online travel giant’s corporate headquarters in Bellevue, Wash., GeekWire has learned.… Read More
Travel technology giant Expedia missed the mark on its 2017 earnings report Thursday, sending its stock tumbling in after-hours trading. The company reported $10.05 billion in revenue for the 2017… Read More