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 Domicile raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by L.A. investment firm CrossCut Ventures. Big names in the Seattle tech world also participated in the round.… Read More
Today’s featured stories Sue Bird’s secrets: How the WNBA star uses tech to beat her competition — at 37 years old Power struggle: How a bitcoin mining boom is transforming… Read More
Alaska Airlines is adding a daily nonstop flight from Seattle to Columbus, Ohio, starting March 7, 2019. It’s the first flight to connect the two cities in years and is… Read More
A team of ex-Amazon employees, who honed their skills around recommendations on the tech giant’s personalization team, have set out on a new work adventure together with Wanderlust Society, a… 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
“Skip the lines! No wait times,” yelled the Clear salespeople swarming beleaguered fliers at Sea-Tac airport last week. The standard passenger security screening line wound far down the usual hallway. Travelers… Read More
When it comes to flying these days, few things are free anymore. But free Wi-Fi is still a perk worth enjoying and a new analysis by Seattle-based Ookla ranks the… 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
OceanGate has finished putting its Titan submersible through its first round of shallow-water tests in Puget Sound, and is packing it up for deep-water tests in the Bahamas. Then it’s off… Read More
It’s amazing the difference five years makes when traveling with tech. In April 2013, I felt as though I was living on the edge when I took a 10-day trip… Read More
Southwest Airlines says it’ll add up to five flights to the daily departure schedule for the yet-to-be-completed passenger terminal at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. That makes Southwest the third… Read More
Alaska Airlines says it’ll offer daily nonstop flights to eight cities including San Jose, Calif., from Paine Field in Everett, Wash., with the aim of helping travelers circumvent traffic jams… Read More
Construction work is complete for an essential part of the dive system that’s due to carry scientists and amateur adventurers down to the world-famous Titanic shipwreck this summer. The nearly… Read More
The derailed train making its inaugural trip from Seattle to Portland Monday was not using a recommended technology system designed to prevent certain types of accidents. According to reports from Crosscut… Read More
If getting over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house involves flying on American Airlines this holiday season, here’s to hoping there’s a pilot on your plane. A… Read More
Alaska Airlines announced Wednesday morning that it will begin offering daily, nonstop service between Seattle and Pittsburgh — further connecting the two cities and their shared interests in tech and… Read More
Less than a year after Alaska Airlines began daily flights to Cuba amid a burst of red-white-and-blue fanfare, the Seattle-based airline says it’ll end them in January. Alaska said demand… Read More
Expedia posted $2.97 billion in revenue, a 15 percent increase over the same time last year in its third-quarter earnings report Thursday. Gross bookings increased 11 percent year-over-year to $22.2 billion,… Read More
When Cale Genenbacher worked at Microsoft, he used to like to get away from his desk and walk the trails around the tech giant’s sprawling Redmond, Wash., campus to think… Read More
Travelers with access to the Delta Sky Club at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport’s Concourse S will now also have access to information and entertainment via Microsoft devices and technology. “Delta Sky Club,… Read More
Expedia’s new CEO, Mark Okerstrom, doesn’t see tech and business as two disparate departments within the online travel giant. That was one of the takeaways from GeekWire’s interview with Okerstrom… Read More
Seattle-based Emerald Corporate Jets is taking the wraps off a charter jet service that offers flights on 737 jets, priced at $15,000 per hour of flight time. The startup is… Read More
Uber’s pick for CEO doesn’t come cheap. In 2015, Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was the highest-paid CEO in the S&P 500, according to a report compiled by Equilar and the Associated… Read More
MADRAS, Ore. – The spectacle that skywatchers made years’ worth of plans to see finally happened today, darkening the sky during a total solar eclipse. The moon began covering up… Read More
It’s prime time at last for the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse, America’s first coast-to-coast dose of totality in 99 years. Maybe you’re a veteran eclipse-chaser who’s been preparing for… Read More
MADRAS, Ore. – If there’s one thing central Oregon has in abundance, it’s open space. And that’s a good thing for the total solar eclipse that’s due to sweep through the… Read More
Expedia reported $2.6 billion in revenue for the second quarter of 2017, an 18 percent increase over the same period last year. The Bellevue, Wash. based travel giant reported adjusted… Read More
Travel giant Expedia is investing $350 million into Indonesian travel site Traveloka, in a move to gain a foothold in the growing Southeast Asia market. The Information first reported on the investment… Read More
Expedia plans to conduct a thorough review of the wildlife tourism attractions bookable through its website and remove activities determined to be objectionable. The Bellevue, Wash. travel giant is also… Read More