SideStep made a bold move today into activity search. I say bold because it’s not like other companies haven’t thought of this or aren’t already involved in the area. In fact, after Rob Solomon walked me through the service I researched the online travel agents’ (OTAs) offerings and found very similar services. […]
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Om Malik is reporting (found through Loren Baker’s Search Engine Journal) that SimplyHired has raised $13.5m from Fox Interactive Media (FIM) and Foundation Capital.
FIM has around 70m uniques a month, according to SimplyHired’s Phil Carpenter. There are obviously some exciting intergration opportunities with MySpace, Fox.com, and other properties.
Ross Levinsohn, FIM’s president, will join SimplyHired’s […]
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According to the NYTimes, Cendant will name Jeff Clark as CEO of Travelport, the new name for the travel services division which includes Orbitz and Cheaptickets.com.
Last month Cendant named Gordon Bethune, the former chairman of Continental Airlines, as chairman of the division.
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Back in November, I said that Google Travel was a crash landing because it provided links to OTAs like Expedia when it should have been providing links to travel search engines like Kayak, SideStep, and Mobissimo.
Last week, Yahoo! Farechase officially launched…I thought that happened about a year ago…anyways, more importantly, Yahoo! FareChase search results now […]
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Nice article on ClickZ about auto, job, and real estate listings starting to show up on Google Base.
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According to Frank Barnako’s Internet Daily, TripAdvisor has added Wikis:
The second-most popular travel site on the Web has added Wikis. “TripAdvisor Inside” lets people post opinions and experiences in a format that combines a dictionary and a chat room. The beta launch features pages for the United Kingdom and California, and is expected to be […]
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SeekingAlpha (InternetStockBlog) has excerpts of Scott Devitt’s recent downgrade of Expedia highlighting GDS Incentive Risk:
Recently Worldspan announced that it had signed a five-year content distribution agreement with American Airlines. We believe that the economics of the new Worldspan deal could be significantly below historical GDS deals. We also believe that American could be using the […]
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