One of the most popular features of the old Farecast travel search engine has taken its last voyage. MIcrosoft, which paid $115 million for the Seattle-based company six years ago… Read More
In 2008, Oren Etzioni sold his airfare price predictor startup Farecast to Microsoft. The Redmond software giant took the technology from Farecast and it became the basis for the price… Read More
Oren Etzioni hates taking risks. His first car was a Volvo, for example, and he’d just rather play it safe more often than not. But that risk is defined in terms… Read More
Like Scotty in Star Trek, the day is coming soon when we’ll talk with our computers instead of just typing at them, according to a prominent UW computer scientist and… Read More