Travelocity

Priceline’s Booking.com Enters Last-Minute Deals Race

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 10 at 11:19 am PT

Priceline has joined the masses in publishing a mobile app that offers last-minute hotel deals, but is it really providing any huge discounts?

Hotel Booking for Procrastinators or the Picky

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on November 29, 2011 at 3:39 pm PT

Katie tests two digital tools for booking hotels: HotelTonight, which aims to get people into rooms no matter how late they book, and Room 77, which wants to get people into the specific room they want.

Overstock's Travel Site Takes Flight With Heavily Discounted Hotels

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 27, 2011 at 4:00 pm PT

Overstock, which has focused on liquidating unsold inventory for the past 12 years, is branching out into offering discounts on hotel rooms around the world.

Kayak Will Now Compete Directly With Expedia by Launching New Hotel Booking Option

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 14, 2011 at 5:45 am PT

Kayak.com is now giving its customers the option to book a hotel room directly through its Web site. In doing so, it now competes with the hundreds of travel sites it compares on a regular basis, such as Hotels.com, Hotwire, Priceline and Expedia.

Bing Launches New "Price Predictors" Travel Feature

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 25, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT

Microsoft’s Bing has launched a new way to search among billions of airfares much faster, while Google’s $700 million acquisition of ITA Software continues to be reviewed by antitrust regulators.

Government May Sue Google to Block ITA Deal

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 13, 2011 at 12:00 pm PT

After six months of waiting for approval, Google invoked a law that requires the government to decide on its proposed acquisition of ITA within 30 days. Department of Justice lawyers are readying legal papers just in case.

Conduit Dumps Google Search for Microsoft's Bing

Kara Swisher in News on December 1, 2010 at 6:00 am PT

In an interesting move in the search space, Conduit–a fast-growing start-up that helps publishers make and distribute apps using Web browser toolbars–has entered a strategic partnership with Microsoft’s Bing search service. In doing so, it is leaving its existing search deal with Google and will instead offer Bing to its network of 260,000 publishers and 200 million users.

Windows Phone 7: There’s an App for Some of That

John Paczkowski in News on October 11, 2010 at 9:15 am PT

How many Windows Phone 7 apps will be available when the first devices running the OS ship? Microsoft refuses to say, but I’m told it will be plenty. Or, as one exec told me, “enough.”

Trulia's Pete Flint Chats About Everything (Except Google Interest!)

Kara Swisher in News on January 6, 2010 at 12:38 am PT

Last night, Trulia sent me a small pile of information about the fast-growth year the real estate search and information site had in 2009, despite the near-complete collapse of the U.S. housing market. You can read all the stats below in Trulia’s press release after the jump–62.3 million unique monthly visitors, visits up 45 percent, page views up 105 percent and one million inquiries sent by home buyers to real estate agents via the San Francisco start-up, which was founded in 2005 by CEO Pete Flint and COO Sami Inkinen. BoomTown also had a short chit-chat with Flint about where Trulia is headed.

Voices

Start-Ups Juggle Platforms, Prioritization

Jessica E. Vascellaro, Tech Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 23, 2009 at 12:27 pm PT

Moves by major tech companies to open up to outside developers have been a boon for small start-ups. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Yahoo, Apple and Intuit, to name a few, all allow developers to build software that hooks into their services.