Posts Tagged ‘ Kayak.com ’

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 5-23-11

Airline cutovers are challenging and fragile projects. So it’s not surprising that there are often hiccups, but the problems during the cutover at AeroMexico had some fairly significant impacts to travelers. Building airline systems is hard work too as HP is reportedly working through some challenges with their Agiliare Passenger Service System which is the basis [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 3-14-11

Can’t think of anything pithy to lead off with, so without further adieu: Infor, the third largest ERP vendor, who also has a growing hospitality software business, it trying to strengthen its position and broaden its vertical ERP offerings with a $1.8B unsolicited bid for Lawson Software (the 6th largest ERP vendor), backed by private equity [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 10-22-10

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving (at least in the US). Thanks to everyone in all the other countries who I hoped worked extra hard to make up for the fact that we were in a turkey coma for a few days. Here’s what I thought was interesting from last week, along with my usual commentary: How [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 11-15-10

Well last week was my first PhoCusWright Conference and it was awesome. So many conversations, the opportunity to meet people “in person” for a change. Just terrific. And a lot happened during the conference that was newsworthy both at the conference and elsewhere.  If you didn’t attend PCW10, try to make it next year. But [ READ MORE ]

Kayak’s Ever-Evolving Business

Travel industry analyst firm, PhoCusWright, recently posted that “Kayak Takes on the Big Guys“, noting the apparent changes in their business model, and poses the question whether Kayak can still be considered a meta-search player.  Kayak’s introduction of ‘booking facilitation’ and ‘Private Sales’ are pushing them closer to becoming an OTA in some aspects.  However, [ READ MORE ]

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