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Golden Eagle Acquisitions sees an opportunity in melding content and Wi-Fi technology, but Row 44's relatively small foothold may not make it the ideal tool for the blending experiment. Also, users will evolve more and more towards their own entertainment, so the content part will become redundant over time.

It will take couple of quarters before the deal closes, so Kayak will still have couple of opportunities to report separate earnings.

Cutting on capacity and trying to increase yields have made the passenger experience lot worse, and this year we will see the full manifestation of that playing out during Thanksgiving week.

Birds is a common airline livery/logo technique, and cranes and falcon/eagles are often used. Parrot is a new one, and using a Pan-African bird is the right way to go. As for the color? Shades of Easyjet.

The system works well in extended-stays where people are staying long term and increasingly looking for more home-like amenities.

The U.S. isn't immune from rest of the world, and 2013 growth slowdown is a troubling forecast. But consumer confidence is on the rise so leisure travel may carry the year through.

Kinda obvious, but Asian airlines take the cake in all categories of airline seats. Surprised to see U.S. airlines American and United even ranked in the top 10!

Nokia's VC fund had been looking to invest in the advertising industry and found a good match in helping Vizury expand its online marketing tools to additional countries in Asia and South America.

Travel companies need to figure out where and when to reach their consumers on a growing number of platforms. This survey found that many tablet users are young, middle-class, and looking to book a trip one to three months ahead of departure.

Travel and tourism spending by consumers and suppliers in the second quarter grew a bit faster than gross domestic product, but the growth rate for travel and tourism spending fell harder than the GDP growth rate when measured against their respective increases in the first quarter.