Articles about Travel – Page 10 of 12

Airbnb may be worth more than Expedia

Airbnb is reportedly in talks to raise up to $500 million at a $10 billion valuation, which would make it… Read More

Challenge accepted: My attempt to take an entire business trip without touching paper

It began as a dare: Take an entire business trip without touching a piece of paper. I nearly choked on… Read More

Expedia CEO discusses Google smackdown

Shares of Expedia took a hit last month after SearchEngineLand reported that the Bellevue online travel giant had lost about 25… Read More

Shares of Expedia jump as Q4 revenues top $1.1 billion

Expedia, the Bellevue online travel giant, saw its revenue increase 18 percent during the fourth quarter as it showed increases… Read More

Check flight times, book hotels with Bing’s new Travel app for Windows Phone

Bing already has Windows Phone apps for topics like News, Sports, Finance and Weather. Now, the search engine has added… Read More

Expedia unveils Travel Graph, a new tool to help travelers find cheaper airfares

Though the northeast is currently approaching a no-fly zone as the effects of the Polar Vortex take hold, Expedia has… Read More

Airfare price tracker Yapta raises $2M, cuts corporate travel costs

Yapta has raised an additional $2 million in a series D funding round, led by Amadeus Ventures and supported by… Read More

Shares of Expedia soar as travel giant posts 17% revenue gain

Shares of Expedia jumped nearly 20 percent in after hours trading after the Bellevue online travel agency beat expectations, showing… Read More

Concur invests in Visage to help companies manage mobile devices

Concur is continuing to place bets in startup companies. The latest deal comes today as the Bellevue maker of travel… Read More

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff joins Zulily, TripAdvisor boards

Before he got the real estate bug, Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff was in the online travel business, co-founding and serving… Read More

Deal of the day: Travelocity partners with rival Expedia

Travelocity is holding onto its brand. But the guts of the online travel agency, which is owned by travel giant… Read More

5 geeky observations from a vacation in Southeast Asia

I saw a lot on my recent trip to Thailand, Cambodia and Singapore. Between the epic temples and beautiful beaches,… Read More

Legislators want Expedia, online travel agencies to pay more taxes

Expedia and other big online travel agencies may be looking at higher tax expenses thanks to a recent push by… Read More

Expedia’s eLong establishes $100M fund to bankroll mobile travel startups

It’s a good time to be a travel-oriented startup. eLong, the Chinese travel giant that’s partially owned by Expedia, said that it… Read More

Shares of Expedia tumble 25 percent after online travel giant hits Q2 ‘headwinds’

Shares of Expedia are getting trashed in after-hours trading, following the Bellevue company’s latest earnings announcement which showed a 27… Read More

Yapta takes flight with $4.2M for airfare price tracking

Seattle online travel startup Yapta has reeled in $4.2 million in fresh funding, with an option to raise an additional… Read More

Concur continues to bet on the cloud, buys TRX and GDSX

Bellevue-based Concur is making some new buys, announcing today that the maker of travel and expense management has acquired technology… Read More

Connected in the sky: FAA may allow gadget use during takeoff and landing

Airline travelers may soon be able to send an email during takeoff or watch a video clip upon descent. The… Read More

With $2M in Kickstarter funds, asteroid-mining company’s public telescope could find alien planets

It ain’t Kepler, but an upgrade to Planetary Resources’ crowdfunded public telescope could hunt for alien planets. The Bellevue-based asteroid-mining… Read More

Dreading your next layover? This startup wants to make waiting for flights fun

If you’ve flown for business, odds are you’ve had a frustratingly long layover before. Trying to kill five or six… Read More

The Geek’s Guide to International Travel

On my recent vacation to Europe, I traveled without folded maps, paper guidebooks and journals, or physical backup copies of my passport,… Read More

Concur CEO Steve Singh punctures lung in bike accident, misses big Fusion client event

Concur CEO Steve Singh suffered a punctured lung and other injuries in a bike accident in Hawaii this past weekend,… Read More

Ex-Facebook engineer Ari Steinberg’s stealthy travel startup makes first hire: A former Redfin and Microsoft coder

Ari Steinberg has been pretty quiet ever since he left Facebook last year to start a new online travel startup.… Read More

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

Nearly 18 months ago, Expedia laid out a vision to become a “Web 3.0 personal travel assistant,” for the mobile… Read More

Tony Wright is chucking the tech industry to travel around the world

Entrepreneur Tony Wright made a bit of a stir last May when he announced plans to leave Seattle for Silicon… Read More

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

Fairsearch.org, a lobbying group whose backers include Microsoft, Expedia, TripAdvisor and Nokia, has filed objections over Google’s attempts to take… Read More

Concur buys conTgo to help business travelers plan better trips

Concur continues on its quest to deliver the perfect travel experience to business travelers, and today it added another piece… Read More

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

Expedia and other online travel companies won a crucial decision this week when the The First District Court of Appeals in… Read More

How far is the Sheraton from the Space Needle? Walk Score unveils hotel finder

Walk Score is best known for their rankings of residences, assigning a score on a scale of 1 to 100… Read More

Online travel sales top $100B for the first time: Expedia remains out in front

No wonder that Expedia’s stock has been soaring — up more than 90 percent in the past year and one… Read More