Global bus ticketing metasearch company Busbud says today that it has closed a $1 million (Canadian) round of financing.
Busbud nets $1 million in funding for bus ticketing metasearch
May 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Kayak trawls reviews and search for package holiday service
May 23, 2013 By 1 Comment
Kayak has unveiled a package holiday service built around an algorithm which uses what people look for and write about most.
Three Kayak-like startups for bus ticketing metasearch
May 21, 2013 By 10 Comments
A handful of startups are racing to become the Kayak of bus ticketing metasearch: Buscatchers, Bustripping, Pombai, and Wanderu.
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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.
OTAs outshine metasearch sites in sending traffic to air and hotel suppliers, says study
December 13, 2012 By 1 Comment
In the past year, traffic to metasearch sites spiked 13%, yet metasearch sites are managing only to persuade 2% of users to click through to the sites of travel suppliers, according to new research from PhoCusWright.
Fly.com thinks its new fare calendar is fairest one of all
May 25, 2012 By 2 Comments
Mark this down on your calendars: Fly.com now says its new Custom Fare Calendar is a travel industry first because it sources real-time fare data while competitors’ fare calendars rely on user searches.
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This is personal — ex-CFO at Kayak advising Superfly
May 23, 2012 By 3 Comments
Search, and travel search in particular, may be getting social, but when will it get personal?
Cheapflights bans clumsy mobile handoffs
May 11, 2012 By 1 Comment
Airline-deal publisher Cheapflights has laid down the law for its mobile websites in the US and UK — there will be no flights shown from intermediaries or suppliers unless they have quality mobile websites of their own for bookings.
Fly.com: Google Flight Search is struggling, lagging and lacking
March 21, 2012 By 7 Comments
Warren Chang, general manager of Fly.com, wonders about all the fuss regarding Google Flight Search.
Orbitz joins Expedia in feeling less Google fear
January 9, 2012 By 3 Comments
Orbitz Worldwide CEO Barney Harford believes the online travel agency is better-positioned to counter the metasearch threat — from Google and Kayak — than Orbitz has been in a handful of years.
