Could Facebook emerge as the next big player in travel? Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said he expects to see competition from the social network, in a recent...
Expedia CEO says Facebook will become a competitor in online travel
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Exclusive: Barry Diller on his Expedia investment, travel acquisitions and the promise of AI
BELLEVUE, Wash. — The surprise guest at Expedia’s 20th anniversary celebration this afternoon was Barry Diller, the media mogul who co-founded the Fox network and oversees a wide range...
Students: Here’s what Expedia and Zillow co-founder Rich Barton says you should study
Given that he started companies like Expedia, Zillow, and Glassdoor, Rich Barton understands the value and power...
Expedia live-streams the world to hospitalized kids with innovative 360-degree video room
Kiara, a patient at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, loves horses. She plays with toy horses, colors in horse coloring books, and wears a pink sweater with a big horse on it....
Travelers would pick smartphone over toothbrush, deodorant or driver’s license, Expedia study finds
Imagine your perfect travel companion. Is it your partner? Your best friend? Someone out of the latest Sports Illustrated? Well, for a majority of travelers that indispensable sidekick is about five inches tall and tags along in their back pockets. A new study...
T-Mobile, Expedia added to Nasdaq-100 Index of largest non-financial companies
When the market opens next Monday, two Seattle-area companies will be included in the Nasdaq-100 Index. As part of an annual re-ranking of the Nasdaq list, which includes the 100 largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market, T-Mobile and Expedia will be included on the list...
Zillow, Expedia co-founder Rich Barton on the importance of a healthy work environment
Find a big pond to go fishing in and find really talented people to fish with. That was one piece of advice from Rich Barton, the co-founder of companies like Zillow and Expedia who took a few minutes...
Airbnb tops Glassdoor’s ‘best places to work’ list; Zillow, Expedia, F5, Concur make top 50
Airbnb has dethroned Google atop Glassdoor’s “Best Places to Work” list for 2016. The peer-to-peer lodging company, now valued at $ 25.5 billion, finished No. 1 on Glassdoor’s annual “Best Places to Work” list, which pulls data from surveys that ask U.S.-based employees about career opportunities, compensation, senior management, work/life balance, culture, and more. There were 21 tech companies among the top...
Expedia cuts staff from Orbitz, two months after $1.6B acquisition
Expedia is cutting jobs at Orbitz two months after acquiring the travel booking website for $ 1.6 billion. A company spokesperson confirmed the layoffs on Friday but did not provide details on how many positions were cut, nor in what areas. “I can confirm we shared people decisions with OWW employees,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “As we...