Articles about Travel – Page 10 of 12

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

Expedia revenue hits $975M on strength of hotel business

Expedia is flying high again. The Bellevue-based online travel giant today posted fourth quarter revenue of $975 million, a 24… Read More

Turn your travel photos into a movie with Expedia’s ‘Find Yours’ app

Toss out iMovie and Windows Movie Maker — Expedia’s new app is turning your travel photos into a mini-movie with… Read More

Yapta takes flight with cash as it ponders next venture round

Seattle travel startup Yapta has received a $1.1 million bridge loan, money that the company will use to continue operations… Read More

Expedia leads $30M deal in hotel search startup Room 77

Expedia is leading a $30.3 million investment in Room 77, an online travel startup whose search service is designed to… Read More

Expedia paying $632 million to buy majority share of German travel company Trivago

Expedia is expanding its presence in Europe today with an announcement that it has acquired 61.6 percent of Trivago, a… Read More

Concur leads $9 million investment in Nor1, a service to help hotels upsell guests

Concur continues to put money to work in the online travel arena, announcing today that it is leading a $9… Read More

Barry Diller vows to support Expedia as long as he’s ‘sentient’

Sometimes billionaires say the darndest things. That’s how we felt after reading the latest statements from media mogul Barry Diller… Read More

Passports with Purpose: Travel bloggers unite to help the places they write about

A group called Passports with Purpose, started in 2008 by travel bloggers from the Seattle region, is getting closer its… Read More

Q&A: Gatherball’s Paul Watts on how his startup survived a big pivot

Gatherball co-founder Paul Watts has hung around startups for a long time, working as a software engineer at companies like WildTangent… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Tablets, travel, kids, and a ukulele rock band, live in studio

We usually talk about a wide variety of topics on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, but even by our… Read More

Facebook’s former Seattle site director is building a new travel startup in town, but he’s not saying much about it

Ari Steinberg, the former site director for Facebook’s engineering office in Seattle, is cooking up a new travel-oriented startup in… Read More

Expedia expands mobile app to include 200-plus airlines, 140,000 hotels

While it was Priceline making headlines last week with its acquisition of Kayak, Bellevue-based Expedia has gone behind the scenes… Read More