Orbitz Worldwide says deteriorating performance from two marketing partners — a metasearch company and a travel research firm — negatively impacted domestic air bookings and the bottom line in the third quarter.
Orbitz feuds with marketing partners, will add HotelClub to platform
November 4, 2010 By 2 Comments
Bing Travel debuts in Bing iPhone app
September 27, 2010 By 6 Comments
Microsoft released a new version of its Bing app for the iPhone and iPod touch and it incorporates Bing Travel features for the first time.
Bing Travel introduces Flight Summary with savings options
July 15, 2010 By 3 Comments
Bing Travel quietly introduced a Your Flight Summary feature, which provides consumers with savings options if they add a stop or alter their travel dates.
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Bing Travel in the UK? Don’t count on it just yet
June 28, 2010 By 2 Comments
Consumers have waited what feels like years for Bing Travel metasearch to make its way across the Atlantic Ocean to sit within European versions of its search engine.
With discomfort, Priceline expects Google, Bing to cozy up to travelers
February 22, 2010 By 5 Comments
Priceline expects Google, with its Google City Tours product, and Microsoft, with Bing Travel, to make a more-direct play for travel consumers.
Microsoft new visual eye candy on Bing Maps
February 16, 2010 By 5 Comments
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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Did the MSN redesign team jilt Travel? Looks like, feels like
November 4, 2009 By 2 Comments
MSN apparently began rolling out its redesigned home page to some U.S. users, according to the BBC.
In the redesigned home page, making its debut, Airfares & Travel is now merely called Travel, but you won’t find it without drilling down.
Travel has gone missing, secretly vacationing in some unknown destination.
To find Travel — Bing Travel, that is — you’d have to mouse-over Lifestyle or More to get at it. Some users won’t ever find it and may seek more travel-friendly pastures elsewhere.
Is there a Bing Travel brain drain?
October 5, 2009 By 8 Comments
I reported over the weekend that Hugh Crean, general manager of Bing Travel, is leaving the company, effective Oct. 23.
Now, it turns out, that Jay Bartot , chief principal engineer at Bing Travel, will be following Crean out the door a few weeks later, in mid-November.
The question now is whether Bing Travel can up the ante with much of the original team missing in action.
