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Articles tagged “amazon”

Online Travel

FTC Staff Wanted to Sue Google for Ripping Off TripAdvisor and Yelp

Google dodged a bullet in 2013 when the FTC terminated its antitrust probe without forcing meaningful concessions or filing suit. Now we know that the rank and file within the FTC wanted to fight it out with Google in court.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

FTC Staff Wanted to Sue Google for Ripping Off TripAdvisor and Yelp

Online Travel

Exclusive: First Look at Amazon Travel’s New Hotel Contract

Amazon is meeting with hotels and hotel middlemen to ramp up its hotel supply, but is taking a deliberate approach and is currently conducting A/B testing of its new hotel-shopping experience. But, this is obviously just the opening shot.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Exclusive: First Look at Amazon Travel’s New Hotel Contract

Online Travel

Amazon Travel’s Real Challenge to Leading Booking Sites

It appears as though Amazon would love to take Expedia down a peg, seeking to undercut it by taking substantially lower commissions from hotels than Expedia gets. Hmmm, seems like a well-worn Amazon playbook.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Online Travel

Exclusive: Amazon to Get Into Hotel Booking With Launch of Travel Site

Well this is bound to be interesting. Amazon appears to be going it alone to launch its own travel service for independent hotels in drive markets. Amazon has huge marketing power, but don't expect Amazon Travel to turn the hotel industry on its head any time soon.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 9 years ago

Exclusive: Amazon to Get Into Hotel Booking With Launch of Travel Site

Online Travel

6 Blunt Quotes About Competition and Success from TripAdvisor’s CEO

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.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

6 Blunt Quotes About Competition and Success from TripAdvisor’s CEO

Airlines

In-Flight Wi-Fi Provider Gogo Teams Up with Amazon for Card-Free Payments

Gogo has always done an excellent job making it easier for passengers to pay quickly. It used iTunes account info early on and the Amazon method is a logical next step.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Amazon snubs Google, turns to Nokia for mapping in new Kindle Fire tablets

Map wars are continuing to heat up: First Apple saves TomTom's bacon with its deal to feature its maps in iOS 6, now Amazon lends Nokia a hand and adds it to its sure-to-be-blockbuster new Kindle Fire.

Lucy Kinder, The Daily Telegraph | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Maps are getting seriously sexy: Amazon enters the game with an acquisition

The battle for local intelligence has broken into open warfare with the three biggest digital consumer brands stockpiling massive mapping weapons to. Use against one another.

Skift | 12 years ago