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Articles tagged “mergers”

Ground Transport

Omio Buys Rival Rome2Rio in Mashup of Door-to-Door Booking Sites

If search for travel looking for door-to door trip options was a massive potential market, then Expedia, Booking Holdings, Ctrip, or Google would have already snapped up these companies, which have been laboring around that premise for years. This stuff is hard to execute, as the relatively modest exit seems to show.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Omio Buys Rival Rome2Rio in Mashup of Door-to-Door Booking Sites

Mergers and Acquisitions

Expedia Group’s Conundrum: Acquisitions or Share Repurchases?

Expedia Group doesn't intend to hoard piles of cash for a rainy day. The company purports to favor share repurchases over acquisitions, all things being equal, but if a rainmaker of a deal comes along, then Expedia may pounce.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Expedia Group’s Conundrum: Acquisitions or Share Repurchases?

Mergers and Acquisitions

Skift Analysis: Amazon’s Travel Strategy Comes Into Focus

The same rules that apply to run-of-the-mill travel sellers do not necessarily apply to Amazon. While cash back on flights in India may seem loss-generating and unsustainable, for Amazon it could be a winning strategy.

Seth Borko and Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Skift Analysis: Amazon’s Travel Strategy Comes Into Focus

Business Travel

Booking’s FareHarbor Kept the Bootstrapping Myth Going While Discreetly Raising Outside Money

Honesty is the best policy. Even if it clashes with a nice FareHarbor bootstrapping story that seemed too good to be true.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Booking’s FareHarbor Kept the Bootstrapping Myth Going While Discreetly Raising Outside Money

Hotels

Airbnb Is Paying $400 Million For HotelTonight, Half in Pre-IPO Stock

On the surface, HotelTonight got a lowish deal from Airbnb. But with roughly half in stock, the price tag could look very upbeat if Airbnb's stock soars in an initial public offering.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Airbnb Is Paying $400 Million For HotelTonight, Half in Pre-IPO Stock

Business Travel

Certify and Chrome River to Challenge Expense Leader SAP Concur

The combined Certify and Chrome River still pales in scope when compared to global behemoth SAP Concur. The approach of offering a variety of different services instead of a single platform, though, has potential in a fragmented global market for expense software services.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 5 years ago

Certify and Chrome River to Challenge Expense Leader SAP Concur

Meetings

Airbnb Buys Gaest to Push Further Into Meetings

Airbnb's move to offer more meetings spaces represents an example of one of Skift's 2019 Megatrends, as many giant online booking companies are looking for their next phases of growth by expanding into new areas.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 5 years ago

Airbnb Buys Gaest to Push Further Into Meetings

Airlines

Alaska Airlines Works Fast to Erase Memories of Virgin America

It can take some airlines as long as a decade after a merger before they truly operate as one entity. But Alaska Airlines is working much faster to gobble up Virgin America. Part of that is because both carriers were relatively small. But by any standard, Alaska is moving quickly.

Brian Sumers, Skift | 5 years ago

Alaska Airlines Works Fast to Erase Memories of Virgin America

Airlines

British Airways Rules Out Further Norwegian Offer

Is this the end of the story? We're willing to bet that this one still has more twists and turns to come.

Patrick Whyte, Skift | 5 years ago

British Airways Rules Out Further Norwegian Offer

Hotels

Skift Podcast: Why Accor Had No Choice But to Change

Tune in for a candid conversation about the strategy behind AccorHotels' many acquisitions, why the company wants to be part of consumers' everyday lives, and what the CEO has learned from spending hundreds of millions of dollars on startups.

Hannah Sampson, Skift | 6 years ago

Skift Podcast: Why Accor Had No Choice But to Change