The high-stakes nature of Expedia Inc.’s bet on its new technology platform, dubbed E3, could be seen in the aftermath of its disappointing fourth quarter results.
Would lack of tech execution at Expedia lead to an execution?
February 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Expedia Worldwide president Durschslag resigns in second high-profile exit
January 12, 2012 By 1 Comment
Expedia Inc. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will be shouldering an extra workload now that Scott Durschslag has resigned as president of Expedia Worldwide.
Google-ITA Software deal: Expedia talks to US Justice Department
September 1, 2010 By 3 Comments
Expedia Inc. talked with the U.S. Justice Dept., expressing its concerns about the pending Google-ITA deal, and is mulling whether to actively oppose the agreement.
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How Expedia handled the crisis, took ‘air out of the competition’
January 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Dara Khosrowshahi, the Expedia Inc. president and CEO, was getting downright philosophical about the crisis the company faced a year or so ago, the situation that led to its fee-cutting frenzy.
“I think it was [White House Chief-of-Staff] Rahm Emanuel who said, ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste,’” Khosrowshahi says, drawing some laughs from the crowd at Citi’s 20th Annual Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference in San Francisco Jan. 5.
The end result was Expedia eliminated air and reduced hotel booking fees and took a pretty good whack at Orbitz and Travelocity.
Expedia’s Khosrowshahi: Metasearch forever
January 6, 2010 By 3 Comments
Expedia Inc. historically has dabbled less in metasearch than Orbitz Worldwide and some of its other online travel agency competitors, but CEO Dara Khosrowshahi now is bullish on the channel.
“We’ll play in metasearch and we think metasearch will be around forever,” Khosrowshahi told attendees at Citi’s 20th Annual Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference in San Francisco Jan. 5.
At the advent of travel metasearch several years ago, the channel was widely seen as a supplier medium that might bring the OTAs to their knees, but much has changed since then.
Expedia CEO on chain deals, OTA consolidation, Booking.com, TripAdvisor, media business
November 19, 2009 By 8 Comments
I caught up with Expedia Inc. President and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi this afternoon, a couple of hours before he was scheduled to appear on center stage before all the attendees at the PhoCusWright conference in Orlando Nov. 19.
I asked Khosrowshahi, who was decked out in a pinstripe suit as we sat outdoors in the Florida sun, whether he expected to be breaking any news in his “executive interview” with PhoCusWright President and CEO Philip Wolf later in the afternoon.
Referring to a recent contract battle with Choice Hotels, Khosrowshahi said he didn’t think so because “we’ve made enough news lately.”
Khosrowshahi declined to get into any of the contract details, but said the Choice contract is similar to deals with other chains, adding, “I was confident we’d get it done.”
He said he didn’t expect to see any major disruptions as larger chains’ contract renewals come up.
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