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Dennis Schaal / Skift:
Hipmunk CEO: We think we can be bigger than Kayak   —  Hipmunk CEO Adam Goldstein, left, and co-founder Steve Huffman.  / Hipmunk  —  Hipmunk co-founder and CEO Adam Goldstein, 25, believes his flight and hotel metasearch company can one day be larger than Kayak, and with $20.2 million …
May 22, 2013, 8:50 AMIn context
Tracy Seipel / San Jose Mercury News:
Google's airport dreams take off: San Jose private terminal approved   —  In a move that benefits Google executives and other corporate high-flyers, the City Council on Tuesday night approved an elite corporate jet center at San Jose's airport, without adding an extra curfew provision that had been omitted in the bidding process.
Apr 17, 2013, 10:05 PMIn context
Jason Clampet / Skift:
Google quietly pulls plug on Frommer's print travel guidebooks   —  The first edition of “Europe on $5 a Day” alongside “Frommer's Belize,” which is the last title in the series that has a cover image on Amazon.com.  —  » Get your daily dose of Skift: subscribe to our newsletter, RSS, Twitter or Facebook.
Mar 21, 2013, 2:00 PMIn context
Samantha Shankman / Skift:
Google Flight Search update lets you search for regions, not just airports   —  Google updated Flight Search today to allow travelers to search flights by region, rather than just airport.  Searches can be for regions as small as a state or as large as South America with capital cities appearing …
Jan 31, 2013, 9:50 AMIn context
Rafat Ali / Skift:
Wikipedia's travel site's official launch coming soon; what to expect and not expect   —  Wikipedia's next big push is a travel wiki, and the official launch of Wikivoyage is coming soon, according to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.  —  Wales was on Colbert Show last night talking …
Jan 10, 2013, 10:00 AMIn context
Jason Clampet / Skift:
Airbnb's growing pains mirrored in New York City, where half its listings are illegal rentals   —  Apartment rental site Airbnb's revolutionary simplicity has made it easy for tens of thousands of people to both list and discover lodging options in private residences and book them easily, quickly, and safely.
Jan 8, 2013, 7:40 AMIn context
Samantha Shankman / Skift:
HotelTonight expands in Europe and Mexico with localized language capabilities   —  HotelTonight announced today that its discounted same-day hotel bookings are now available in five new international cities: Paris, Nice, Brussels, Mexico City, and Acapulco.  This is the app's first move …
Dec 11, 2012, 7:10 AMIn context
Dennis Schaal / Skift:
Facebook hires its first head of travel, Lee McCabe   —  Wondering if your travel business is using Facebook effectively or if you are trying to run before you can walk?  Facebook recently hired Lee McCabe, its first head of travel, and he may be the go-to-guy for this kind of advice.
Dec 6, 2012, 1:50 PMIn context
Rafat Ali / Skift:
What happens when your pivot goes horribly wrong?   —  Travel is among the most pivot-friendly categories in the startupland.  What happens when a well-liked-but-limited app, focused on a nice but commodity niche, attempts to pivot into a larger company, attempting to “reinvent travel”?
Nov 24, 2012, 12:45 PMIn context
Dennis Schaal / Skift:
In-Flight Wifi provider Row44 bought in a $430 million deal   —  Global Eagle Acquisition Corp., an investment vehicle founded by two former Hollywood executives, said Thursday that it is buying two companies that would transform it into a provider of in-flight Internet access and entertainment.
Nov 8, 2012, 10:45 PMIn context

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Microsoft BizSpark:
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