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CondeNet Buys SFO Media

CondeNet, the Internet unit of Conde Nast publications, has just acquired SFO Media, the publisher of HotelChatter.com and Jaunted.com, and believe it or not, CondeNet appears to have a good sense of timing.

Farecast Wings Its Way To Microsoft

Airfare predictions site Farecast announced its rumored acquisition by another firm took place, with Microsoft buying the site.

Rumor: Google Ticketing An Expedia Buy

Google as travel agent? It could happen as rumors caught fire this afternoon about the potential acquisition of venerable online travel agency Expedia by Google.

Security Issues Discovered at TSA Site

In what should be a warning to travelers and just about everyone on the Internet, a web site built for the TSA has been found to have significant security issues, endangering travelers, as well as the reputat

Yahoo Travel Focuses On FareChase

Consider this one more example of how Yahoo does not, by any means, move quickly.  Still, the search market's perpetual runner-up does move, and its latest change brought the FareChase travel engine into a more prominent spot.

UK's Travel-Related Searches On The Rise

At the moment, it's supposedly rainy and about 48 degrees Fahrenheit in London.  That doesn't sound too bad, really, but it could be better, and so people in the UK are performing more travel-related searches.

Travel Search Sites Kayak, SideStep Connect

In the official press release, forms of the word "merge" are used four times, "purchasing" comes up once, and "acquire" and "buy" are nowhere to be seen.  Nonetheless, the bottom line is that Kayak.com secured a spectacular round of funding, and proceeded to take over SideStep.com.

Google, Search Drives Health, Travel Traffic

Websites in the health & medical and the travel categories received substantial traffic driven to them from search engines in November 2007.

VibeAgent: Travel Mashup With Social Networking

I read about this one in the USA Today... a new travel mashup that incorporates a little social networking enabling users to setup a more web20-ish profile, save trips, search for travel related info, join groups etc...

Yahoo, Sony BMG Partner Over Video-On-Demand

Destination Handycam seemed like a marketing ploy as much as the result an important partnership, but the site, which was worked on by both Sony and Yahoo, may have led to the current development: a deal relating to music and video content.