The search giant has been on a shopping spree for companies whose products are used by consumers daily, such as MileWise. We speculate wildly on what Yahoo might acquire next.
The state of some travel startups and why some are missing the (pain) point
June 5, 2013 By 59 Comments
Last year I wrote a piece entitled Three Reasons Why I Don’t Use Recent Travel Startups, casting a rather downbeat eye over a number of travel services trying to make their way in the market.
Hipmunk asks Expedia to provide hotels through affiliate deal
May 9, 2013 By 1 Comment
Flight and hotel search service Hipmunk is now offering direct bookings for hotels via both its website and mobile offerings.
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Routehappy embarks on mission to help people fly better with a happy pill
April 25, 2013 By 5 Comments
Routehappy finally lifts the lid today on what it’s calling a ‘next generation of flight metasearch’ and after more than a year since launching its beta site
Airbnb, Kayak, and Expedia dish a bit about their plans
April 10, 2013 By 1 Comment
At a panel talk in London last night, representatives from the European divisions of these major online players revealed insights into their strategies, the limits to their growth, and which smaller startups in the market they admire the most.
Things I wish I had known when starting Hipmunk
March 25, 2013 By 7 Comments
Adam Goldstein recalls lessons learned the hard way while co-founding the metasearch site. Topics include OTA incestuousness, staffing issues, and pushing releases.
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A fresh way of visualizing flight search aims to trump ITA Software Matrix time bars
January 31, 2013 By Leave a Comment
This is for the nerds out there: This interactive visualization for exploring flight options for a set of origin and destination airports was built as a “bookmarklet” and uses ITA Flight Matrix data.
Travel startups: ditch the consumer traction and focus on data
January 8, 2013 By 19 Comments
There has been plenty of digital inches written recently about the Series A crunch. Is it real? I don’t know.
Superfly’s guerilla marketing on Facebook is luring travelers to its flight search
January 7, 2013 By 3 Comments
Superfly’s guerrilla marketing on Facebook has lured users to its fight search tool, and its new airline e-mail scanning service may let customers load up their mileage information in a single click.
WhichAirline reboots with Hipmunk-style visual flight search
November 28, 2012 By 8 Comments
For years, European metasearch flight booking engine WhichAirline.com has struggled to gain traction with users. Now it is hoping that a Hipmunk-style visual flight search interface will catapult it ahead in popularity.
