Patterson, 36, widely regarded as an industry wunderkind, earned raves for his performance as a former vice president at Kayak and as co-founder of Jetsetter.
Room 77 taps Drew Patterson to be CEO [UPDATED with Brad Gerstner Q&A]
March 28, 2013 By 6 Comments
The SCAN – Room 77 mobile optimized, Superbox expands, Changi airport award and more travel tech news
March 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Travel tech updates from Luxe Nomad, DestinAsian, Goibibo, RateTiger, TripAdvisor, Cleartrip, Room 77, SITA, Qantas, ANA and more.
Room 77 takes $30M injection, Expedia involved, as meta arms race heats up
January 3, 2013 By 14 Comments
Room 77 has closed $30.3 million in Series C financing with participation by Expedia, with total capital raised at $43.8 million. The US startup’s metasearch tool is merely a year old.
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The Scan: Hyatt gains from Roomlinx-DISH deal, CCRA debuts tools, and more news
August 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Roomlinx, the IPTV company, signed a five-year contract with DISH, which benefits Hyatt Hotels, and more items in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion on 28 August.
How a storm in the cloud brought Room 77 and other websites back down to earth
July 3, 2012 By 4 Comments
Last week, hotel booking service Room 77 was knocked offline in a mammoth cloud-computing outage that also crashed the websites of dozens of companies.
Outage weekend: Qantas, Virgin Australia and Room 77 hit as web systems fail
July 1, 2012 By 4 Comments
Passengers of Qantas and Virgin America had difficulties checking in this weekend after the system supporting both airlines experienced problems.
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Can a travel startup change the way hotels think about rates and distribution?
April 12, 2012 By 21 Comments
Room77, often miss-thought of as a content play for its cool room images, has added a new feature cementing its place as the most innovative hotel search player out there.
Room 77 comes out fighting as Concur reveals investment, pledges to out-Kayak Kayak
February 2, 2012 By 3 Comments
The hotel sector is getting rather interesting (and feisty) in 2012, as some predicted, with the likes of Google wading in deeper and the GDSs ramping up their efforts.
Room 77 launches metasearch and emailing room requests to hotels
November 10, 2011 By 3 Comments
If you book a hotel on a revamped Room 77, the company now will email requests for specific rooms to the hotel based on your preferences.
Room 77 begins move into Asia
September 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Expansion time at Room 77 with it making the most of its recent fundraising to make a strategic move and start featuring hotels in Asia.
