Posts Tagged ‘ Homeaway ’

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 6-27-11

This seemed to be one of the more interesting weeks I’ve seen in quite a while. Yahoo makes a big move in Big Data, Google+ launches, Homeaway IPO’s and much more. Good stuff, take a read through. They’re dancing in the streets of Austin…well that isn’t so out of the ordinary on Sixth Street. But after [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 5-9-11

I’m gonna write up something separate on Google IO, but in case you missed it, here’s the other stuff of note that happened last week: Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5B. Every Skype user in the world fears the folks in Redmond will kill Skype intentionally or unintentionally. The good news seems to be that Skype will [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 3-7-11

Of course the big news was the Earthquake off the coast of Japan and resulting tsunami. The devastation is complete in some areas. The before and after shots are stunning. Please consider making a donation through the Red Cross. Now here is the other news that caught my eye last week: I’m putting this atop the list because I thought [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 2-14-11

Hope everyone had a happy Valentine’s Day! Concur held its annual Fusion conference. COO Raj Singh laid out “4 Big Areas of Growth” (mobile, social, cloud and platform) in his keynote. The clarified the plans to integrate TripIt, hitting on the first two. But the cool stuff I think is in the new Concur Connect Platform [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 10-25-10

Happy Halloween everyone.  Of course the most important event from last week was Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity/Rally to Keep Fear Alive. HuffPo provides responses from the “media”. In other news… Appropriate given that we’re at the height of the election season and have just recapped the Rally to Restore Sanity, [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 10-4-10

Foursquare outages, a hotelier emerges from bankruptcy, Facebook groups, executive changes and more: Altimeter Group’s Ray Wang describes the 5 pillars of consumer tech that are influencing enterprise applications and their impact on innovation. Amongst the examples given was the Royal Caribbean CIO’s recent presentation at InformationWeek 500 CIO event highlighting how design thinking coupled with [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 7-12-10

Sorry for the late Monday post. So without further adieu: Google introduced App Inventor, a simple GUI based app builder for Android OS. TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid takes it for a spin. Mike Loukides from O’Reilly Radar discusses the different philosophies behind Apple and Google as evidenced by App Inventor. I for one don’t think that we’ll [ READ MORE ]

Homeaway on a bit of a buying spree

Homeaway, the online vacation rental giant snapped up it’s second vacation rental site in less than a week, purchasing AlugueTemporada.com.br.  The move expands Homeaway’s footprint into South America and gives them over 12,000 property listings on the continent and 475,000 worldwide.  The move is pretty savvy given the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 [ READ MORE ]

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