2013 Archives

MTA's Flickr page started attracting fans last year with rare photos of an empty city during Hurricane Sandy. It has since chronicled the current-day construction of the NYC transit system, a digital time capsule that will surely be looked at for generations to come.

Amadeus has long been involved in incubating startup-like ventures within the company, but will now do so with a more deliberate strategy to forge closer relationships with young companies that it feels are worth associating with.

The new American Airlines may have a lot more work in store for women-owned and other businesses because it would seem almost a natural step for US Airways to want its legacy to be part of the new design. Then the work would have to start all over.

The Disney name attracts visitors to destinations worldwide and this new, comparably humble site is still sure to be added to Chicago's list of to-see sites.

Damn, if the UK's Advertising Standards Authority can't take a joke … Meanwhile, Kayak's Brain Surgery ad is obviously working and that's why the company brought it back.

You need to be quite the master of a narrow niche to make an airfare-focused travel agency work, and AirTreks' around-the-world specialization seems just the thing.

Now that TripAdvisor is a standalone public company, CEO Steve Kaufer is getting downright candid about the competition. He has lots to say about rivals or would-be rivals, including former parent Expedia, Google, Amazon, Booking.com and Kayak, among others.

HomeAway and vacation rentals in general could really become more disruptive to the hotel industry if HomeAway gets the sort of wide distribution on partner sites that its executives have in mind.