| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.08.2024 | Otto: The Future of Business Travel in the Age of AI | In the bustling world of business travel, time is money. Professionals are constantly on the move, juggling meetings, flights, and accommodations. Enter Otto, a new player in the travel tech arena, poised to revolutionize how business trips... |
| 26.08.2024 | Otto: Travel-Based AI Agent Company Raises $6 Million (Seed) | Otto, a company that is building an intelligent and autonomous AI travel agent for business travelers, announced that it has raised a $6 million seed round led by Madrona Ventures, with participation from Direct Travel and angel investors f... |
| 23.08.2024 | Otto Raises $6M in Seed Funding | Otto, a Seattle, WA-based startup building an intelligent and autonomous AI travel agent for business travelers, raised $6M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Madrona Ventures, with participation from Direct Travel and angel investors fr... |
| 22.08.2024 | Concur Founder, Former Expedia Execs Back Business Travel AI Startup: Otto | Steve Singh and a group of industry veterans are rolling out a new AI trip planner and booking agent for business travel.
It’s called Otto, and the startup shared its plans on Thursday along with news of a $6 million seed round.
The founder... |
| 16.07.2024 | 95% of Singapore Travel Firms Eye Payment Tech Upgrades as Top Priority | - |
| 18.06.2024 | Forbes Tate Partners Expands International and Technology Expertise with Addition of Justin Kintz | WASHINGTON, June 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Forbes Tate Partners (FTP) announced the addition of Justin Kintz as a partner on its award-winning government relations team to oversee the firm's international and technology work.
Kintz brings ne... |
| 25.05.2024 | Туристы бронируют самостоятельно | - |
| 07.05.2024 | Grafana — прошлое, настоящее, будущее и альтернативы | Grafana — популярное приложение для мониторинга и визуализации данных, которое широко используется облачными провайдерами для мониторинга различных компонентов облачной инфраструктуры, таких как виртуальные машины, контейнеры, базы данных, ... |
| 22.04.2024 | Klarna expands global partnership with Expedia Group, offering flexible payments to US consumers | Klarna expands global partnership with Expedia Group, offering flexible payments to US consumers
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New York, NY – April 22nd, 2024 – Klarna, the AI powered global payments network ... |
| 30.06.2021 | Hotels and travel businesses that aren’t openly welcoming to LGBTQ visitors are missing out on a $211 billion market | A man performs a dance routine mid flight during Virgin Australia’s special Pride Flight bound for Sydney on March 05, 2021 in Brisbane, Australia. The one-off Virgin Australia flight entirely operated by LGBTQ+ cabin crew and allies is bri... |
| 14.06.2021 | More than 35K Hotel Partners Sign Orbitz Pledge to Provide LGBTQ-Welcoming Lodging | |
| 14.06.2021 | More than 35K Hotel Partners Sign Orbitz Pledge to Provide LGBTQ-Welcoming Lodging | CHICAGO, June 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Orbitz is introducing a new search capability that improves access to lodging partners that have signed an Inclusivity Pledge against discrimination on the basis of gender and sexual identity. Mo... |
| 19.11.2020 | Jeremy Pope, Indya Moore Join Orbitz To Raise $50K for LGBTQ+ Travelers This Giving Tuesday | |
| 16.03.2020 | How Online Travel Agents Are Responding To Coronavirus | Online travel agents are scrambling to help customers with travel affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. ... [+] Getty |
| 25.11.2019 | When waiting feels immoral: Fairness in the emergency department calls for empathy from all of us | Mr. Kane is using one hand to clutch the plastic basin into which he is vomiting and gesturing hello with the other hand when I introduce myself to him in the emergency department triage area.
He has suffered from headaches ever since he ha... |
| 03.06.2019 | 8 airport boarding secrets, according to travel experts | Gate agents may be able to hold your plane. Alper Çugun/Flickr
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From overbooked flights to long lines in security and at the gate, the problems and frustrations that can arise at the airport are endless.
But by being nice ... |
| 26.11.2018 | Cyber Monday: Best travel deals on airfare, hotels and cruises | Cyber Monday is a great day to save on travel. No matter the cruise line, airline or hotel, you can bet they are are offering flash deals for special savings on exciting getaways booked now through next year.
I’ve also rounded up theme park... |
| 23.11.2018 | 11 Travel and Hospitality Startups to Watch in 11 Cities | Through digital media, events, data and more, American Inno is building the largest network of local innovation, cultivating engaged startup, tech and entrepreneurial communities in 11 (and counting) markets across the country. In a new bi-... |
| 23.11.2018 | Gigantic Travel Sales Predicted For Black Friday And Cyber Monday 2018 | From Black Friday to Cyber Monday and now Travel Deal Tuesday, it might seem like the season of outrageous sales gets longer every year. |
| 22.11.2018 | 11 Travel and Hospitality Startups to Watch in 11 Cities | Through digital media, events, data and more, American Inno is building the largest network of local innovation, cultivating engaged startup, tech and entrepreneurial communities in 11 (and counting) markets across the country. In a new bi-... |
| 20.11.2018 | 11 Travel and Hospitality Startups to Watch in 11 Cities | Through digital media, events, data and more, American Inno is building the largest network of local innovation, cultivating engaged startup, tech and entrepreneurial communities in 11 (and counting) markets across the country. In a new bi-... |
| 31.07.2018 | Here Are the Chicago Tech Companies That Raised Money in July | This is our round up of Chicago tech and startup companies that received venture capital investments during the month of July. If we missed one, let us know at info@chicagoinno.com.
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| 12.07.2018 | Chicago Travel Software Startup Journera Raises $9M | A Chicago-based startup that’s making a software platform to create seamless travel journeys has raised a new round of funding to help it expand.
Journera, founded in 2016 by Jeffrey Katz, the founder of Orbitz Worldwide, raised $9 million ... |
| 20.03.2018 | Hackers gain access to 880K credit cards from Orbitz customers | Another day, another breach. Today, online travel agency Orbitz disclosed that hackers managed to get both credit card data and personal information (though no Social Security numbers and passwords) from users who made their travel purchase... |
| 26.11.2017 | The Best Cyber Monday Travel Deals for 2017 | Cyber Monday isn't just for finding good deals on electronics or products. Cyber Monday is also one of the most exciting times of the year for buying travel gear or booking travel. If you're looking to score a cheap flight, hotel room, or t... |
| 30.08.2017 | ALICE Raises $26 Million Series B Funding from Expedia | ALICE, an operations platform that empowers hotels to deliver a better guest experience through consistently excellent service, announced today it has secured $26 million in Series B funding from Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE), the world's la... |
| 03.05.2015 | The Upcoming Shakeout In Travel Tech | Warren Lee Contributor
Editor’s note: Warren Lee is a general partner at Canaan Partners where he invests in travel, enterprise software, and marketplace startups.
The last few years have been a dizzying and heady time for travel startups, ... |
| 12.02.2015 | Expedia Buys Orbitz For $1.6B In Cash To Square Up To Priceline | After buying Travelocity earlier this month for $280 million, Expedia continues its online travel acquisition spree. Today, the company announced an agreement to acquire Orbitz for $1.6 billion — or $12 per share — in cash, a premium of 29 ... |
| 30.12.2014 | United And Orbitz Sue “Hidden Cities” Flight Search Engine Skiplagged | United Airlines and Orbitz are suing Skiplagged, a small startup founded by Aktarer Zaman that helps travelers hack the airlines’ opaque pricing schemes to get better deals by finding so-called “hidden city” fares.
Airline pricing is incred... |
| 10.05.2014 | We’re Still Traveling Like It’s 1996 | John Balen Contributor
Editor’s note: John Balen has been involved in the venture capital and technology industries for more than 25 years. At Canaan he focuses on the digital media, enterprise and fintech sectors, and has led investments i... |
| 16.09.2013 | OLSET Matches Business Travelers With The Right Hotel In Less Than 10 Seconds | A new travel platform called OLSET is launching its public beta to streamline the hotel booking process, with an algorithm for matching user preferences to reviews from TripAdvisor. Instead of providing a long list of potential hotels in th... |
| 13.11.2012 | Former Orbitz Security Chief Lands $5.25M For Risk I/O, A “Vulnerability Intelligence” Platform | As Kaspersky Labs details in its latest State of the Union, the threats to the IT landscape are changing, as security teams now have to juggle threats coming from both new geographies and platforms — on top of vulnerabilities caused by the ... |
| 05.09.2012 | True for people, not for planes: Routehappy shows all flights are not created equal | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Routehappy cruised into $1.5 million in seed fund... |
| 26.06.2012 | Orbitz Pitches More Expensive Hotels to Mac Users | Travel site Orbitz has confirmed that it uses predictive analytics to show Mac users different and more expensive hotels in search results than Windows users might see. It’s still not clear how widespread the practice is, nor what its impli... |
| 01.05.2012 | SigFig Launches To Be The Data-Driven Financial Planner Of Your Dreams | Whether you have $10,000 or $10 million, trying to find help to manage your investments can be a minefield.
Mid-level financial advisory firms have come under scrutiny for somewhat shady practices — so even though you can certainly find ver... |
| 10.02.2012 | How We Used 15 Minutes To Save $600 On Airfare | My girlfriend and I are renting an apartment in Paris for a week this summer, which is the first real vacation I have taken since 2006, when I went to Dublin to run a marathon then spend a week recovering in Irish pubs and on Irish seashore... |
| 16.11.2011 | ebookers partners with SilverRail to sell European and North American rail tickets | ebookers to become the first online travel agent to offer fully integrated multi-operator rail ticketing
Hollywood, Florida – PhoCusWright Conference - November 16, 2011 – ebookers, one of Europe's largest online travel agents, has announce... |
| 07.09.2011 | Unlocking Big Data with R | The explosion of big data has caused far-reaching ripples in the enterprise. Organizations today are faced with unprecedented challenges in sorting, processing and analyzing their data, which has in turn given rise to a new generation of te... |
| 16.03.2011 | Orbitz for Business Adds Online Rail Search and Booking Capabilities through SilverRail Partnership | All U.S.-based Amtrak Cities Now Available Online for Orbitz for Business Customers
CHICAGO, March 16, 2011 – Orbitz for Business, the corporate travel group of Orbitz Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: OWW), today announced a new partnership with Silve... |
| 14.03.2011 | Kayak Launches Direct Hotel Booking Feature as It Preps for an IPO | Travel search company Kayak has just announced that it will begin handling hotel reservations itself, rather than just referring customers to its partner sites when they are ready to book a room. This marks Kayak’s expansion beyond just agg... |
| 17.08.2010 | Startup Hipmunk builds innovative flight-search site | There’s no shortage of travel sites on the Web, but I find the experience of searching for flights is still pretty crummy. I have to hold lots of little details in my head as I sort through a bunch of flight listings that are often almost i... |
| 03.08.2010 | Tips for planning a last-minute family vacation | (ARA) - Whether it's the sudden need to get away or the last chance to escape before the kids head back to school, many families find themselves in a position to book a last-minute vacation. With the fluctuating economy wreaking havoc on th... |
| 07.07.2010 | FTC and DoJ mulling who gets to dig into Google’s ITA buyout | reader comments 18 with 13 posters participating
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| 01.07.2010 | Google Makes Major Move into Travel Search with Acquisition of ITA Software | Google announced this afternoon that it has paid $700 million in cash to acquire ITA Software, a flight information software company.
Founded in the mid-1990s at MIT, ITA’s technology provides organization of flight price and schedule infor... |
| 25.02.2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Chicago | Holding down the proverbial fort for the mid-west, Chicago, the Windy City, is the third largest city in the U.S. and the most populous city that doesn’t sit on an ocean coast. The city, which does, however, rest on the shore of Lake Michig... |
| 24.08.2009 | FlightCaster: How to Get Early Notification on Flight Delays - The Middle Seat Terminal - WSJ | By WSJ Staff
WSJ reporter Sarah Nassauer writes:
Sitting at a boarding gate, watching a storm roll in, waiting to take off in a plane that hasn’t yet arrived from its previous destination, knowing that the airline’s promise of a ’15 min d... |
| 24.08.2009 | FlightCaster: How to Get Early Notification on Flight Delays – The Middle Seat Terminal – WSJ | By WSJ Staff
WSJ reporter Sarah Nassauer writes:
Sitting at a boarding gate, watching a storm roll in, waiting to take off in a plane that hasn’t yet arrived from its previous destination, knowing that the airline’s promise of a ’15 min d... |
| 15.10.2008 | FatTail lands $3.5M to streamline online advertising | FatTail, maker of software that helps online publishers determine which combination of ads will bring in the most money, just nabbed $3.5 million of its own in first-round funding from Velocity Interactive, Ted Meisel, former chief executiv... |
| 25.08.2008 | TripHub Reaches Its Final Destination: The Deadpool | TripHub, a Seattle-based group oriented travel site, has closed its doors. We originally covered the company’s beta launch in September 2006, when we described it as a good way to help compile and centralize information for a group trip, bu... |
| 05.06.2008 | NileGuide takes another $8 million to enrich travel experiences | NileGuide, the online service that aims to help with every part of a trip, has raised a second round of funding.
The company now offers comprehensive travel planning to over 75 destinations around the world and claims to be adding five new ... |
| 28.04.2008 | NileGuide aims to own trip itinerary business | Online travel sites are an increasingly crowded space, so much so that it can be difficult to differentiate between them. NileGuide is attempting to offer something different, a full-service travel site that exists online. The site will hel... |
| 02.03.2008 | InsideTrip Thinks There's More to Shopping for Airline Tickets Than Just Prices | InsideTrip made its debut into the airline ticket search scene this weekend, joining the likes of Kayak and Mobissimo among several others.
As with these startups and more established players such as Orbitz and Expedia, InsideTrip wants to ... |
| 25.02.2008 | Photobucket Exec Departs to Run New Startup, BillShrink | Peter Pham, VP of Business Development over at Photobucket(acquired by FIM last May) has resigned to head up a new company, BillShrink, as CEO.
BillShrink, which has been in development for the past seven months and largely under the radar,... |
| 11.05.2007 | ORBITZ FILES FOR A $750M IPO | Online travel site Orbitz may not turn a profit, but Stephen Schwarzman’s Blackstone Group, which bought the company only nine months ago, is already planning to cash in.
Orbitz filed yesterday to raise as much as $750 million in an initial... |
| 08.09.2000 | Orbitz Won't Take Off Until Spring | Travel Web site Orbitz has delayed its official launch
until next June to allow plenty of time to prepare for what it hopes
will be a deluge of customers seeking to book cheap airline reservations
and make other low-cost travel arrangements... |
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| - | Expedia Group debuts online Covid info search for 7 travel brands | Expedia Group has launched COVID-19 Travel Advisor, an online tool that provides information about current pandemic-related travel restrictions, in partnership with Sherpa.
Seven Expedia Group brands are deploying the new feature at their b... |
