Articles about Travel – Page 9 of 12

Startup Spotlight: TripTips uses local experts to create custom travel itineraries

Last year, Microsoft veteran Dinesh Haridas and his wife traveled to Thailand expecting to spend a day sailing. Despite consulting travel… Read More

Groupon launches a travel app, targeting its fastest growing category

A new app being released today by Groupon is enabling the daily deals company to place a bigger emphasis on travel.… Read More

Alaska Airlines’ biometric boarding pass: Lifting, or giving, a finger?

How much perceived privacy are you willing to give up to reduce pain? That’s one of the questions Alaska Airlines… Read More

News Brief

U.S. travelers can now build their itineraries with Utrip, the AI-based trip planning service

People looking to take a trip in the Western U.S. have a new tool to help them find where to… Read More

App of the Week: Expedia’s tablet app makes it easy to surf for travel destinations

Visit any travel search website, and you’ll probably be greeted with the same basic setup: a text field for your… Read More

SAP CEO gushes over $8.3 billion Concur acquisition: ‘I think we have something big here’

In a 30-minute conference call with analysts and press Thursday afternoon, SAP CEO Bill McDermott and Concur CEO Steve Singh… Read More

SAP buying Concur for $8.3 billion

SAP is buying Bellevue-based Concur Technologies in deal valued at $8.3 billion, a 20 percent premium over the Sept. 17th… Read More

Sale of Buuteeq turns up hefty gain for early backer Concur, and other investors

Priceline Group didn’t didn’t disclose the purchase price that it paid to acquire Seattle hotel marketing startup Buuteeq in June.… Read More

Geek of the Week: Software engineer Eli White makes the world his workspace

Software engineers are in high demand, and Eli White had no shortage of opportunities upon graduating from University of Washington in… Read More

The honeymoon is over: Expedia and Groupon no longer co-branding travel deals

Groupon and Expedia are scaling back a 3-year-old partnership that focused on selling heavily discounted travel deals together. A Groupon spokesman… Read More

Expedia buys Australian travel firm for $658M, tamps down ‘inaccurate’ eLong rumors

Expedia is making waves overseas. The Bellevue-based online travel giant announced Monday morning that it plans to buy Australian online… Read More

Priceline gobbling up OpenTable for $2.6 billion

The Priceline Group has quite the appetite for acquisitions. Two days after buying Seattle hotel marketing startup Buuteeq, the Norwalk,… Read More

Ignition-backed travel startup Hipmunk raises $20 million

Travel planning site Hipmunk announced today that it has raised $20 million in Series C financing. The round was led… Read More

Last-minute travel heats up with new mobile offering from Airbnb

Airbnb is experimenting with a new service that will enable the San Francisco company to enter the very crowded field of booking last-minute… Read More

Last-minute restaurant reservation service Table8 receives backing from Concur

A new mobile app called Table8 that allows foodies to book last-minute reservations at hard-to-get-into restaurants has raised $4.6 million… Read More

Expedia posts 19% gain in revenues, cash hoard grows

Shares of Expedia rose Thursday after the Bellevue online travel giant posted a solid first quarter, reporting adjusted net income… Read More

Farewell, Farecast: Microsoft kills airfare price predictor, to the dismay of its creator

One of the most popular features of the old Farecast travel search engine has taken its last voyage. MIcrosoft, which… Read More

Expedia is giving away paid apps for free with Apple’s blessing

Starting today, Expedia’s iPhone app will become a destination for consumers to discover new apps — and then, download them… Read More

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