Microsoft new visual eye candy on Bing Maps

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Blaise Aguera y Arcas of Microsoft Live Labs has built a formidable reputation around himself after his now famous demonstration of PhotoSynth at TED conference in March 2007.

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Consider these fax: Expedia may have already lost ‘Bloody Valentine’ battle

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More than 24 hours after TechCrunch savaged Expedia over a botched booking, Expedia has uttered nothing about it on Twitter or Facebook and may already have lost the social-media battle.

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Expedia handling TechCrunch tirade at ‘highest level’

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Expedia is fighting a major social media and PR fire after one of highest profile tech blogs on the planet slammed the agency for poor customer service.

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BudgetAirlines gets interim lift from Kayak

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Budget Center, a mash-up of budget-oriented travel domains. launched an interim website, BudgetAirlines.com, featuring Kayak metasearch. And, oh yes, the website has Google AdSense, too.

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So what happens when growth at HomeAway slows down?

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HomeAway released its 2009 annual report for the UK earlier today, boasting encouraging figures in terms of traffic, booking enquiries and sign-ups.

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Southwest quickly sizes up situation, ‘Not So Silent Bob’ keeps up substanial pressure

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With controversy still swirling about Kevin Smith’s removal from a Southwest Airlines flight, the director kept up the pressure after the airline published a blog post about the incident, defending its 25-year-old Customer of Size policy and hoping to contain the damage.

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GetARoom: three question marks over the model but one reason the company will succeed

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A pundit has the right to cast a critical eye over a business, even if the founders are proven entrepreneurial billionaires.

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Basking in Google glory, Kayak launches Trips in the UK, upgrades iPhone app

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Fresh from being cited by Google as a key competitor, Kayak is rolling out its trip planning tool to the UK market this week and also unveiling a major upgrade to its iPhone app.

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Social media – constant change, elusive ROI, beware of mass hysteria

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Social Media has only one constant – and that is change. So how on earth do you keep up?

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Google takes Kayak by surprise, named as key competitor

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Some folk in Connecticut, US, will be scratching their heads as feverishly as they are digging their way through the snow after Google named the metasearch firm Kayak on its list of competitors.

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