Thomas Cook buys web travel firm
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Thomas Cook buys hotels website Hotels4U.com, as it says it cut losses in the Christmas run-up.
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Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. RHAT.O  said on Thursday that it had bought Netscape's computer user  identification and management technology from America Online  Inc., a unit of Time Warner Inc. TWX.N
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Two private equity firms will buy Sabre Holdings Corp. , owner of the Travelocity hotel and flight-booking Web site, for $4.45 billion as they look to profit from a boom in travel services.
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Tour operator Thomas Cook makes a         Â£196m (286.7m euro) loss in the first nine months of the year but says its overall financial position has improved.
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The company behind the Madame Tussauds and London Eye tourist attractions is bought in a Â£1bn deal.
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America Online has partnered with and taken a minority investment in travel search player Kayak Software. The two will build an AOL-owned travel search site, to launch in early 2005, which will be powered by Kayak&#39;s technology.
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Online travel agencies, eager to  expand their reach in an increasingly electronic world, have  set their sights on international markets where travelers are  not yet accustomed to booking trips online.
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Entrepreneur Dinesh Dhamija will pocket in excess of Â£92m after it was announced this week that he has sold his online travel agency Ebookers.
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Cendant Corp., the largest US travel and real-estate services company, agreed to buy Ebookers Plc, Europe&#39;s largest Internet travel company, for $404.3 million to increase its Web bookings overseas.
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Travelocity takes off as its parent gets bought out.
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Thomas Cook, the second-biggest European travel group, is to merge with British rival MyTravel, the British group has said.
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Popular photo-rating site HotOrNot.com is bought by a group of investors associated with Avid Life Media, founder James Hong confirms.
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Booking trips on the Web will only get easier, thanks to the ambitions of two business titans
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German-owned Thomas  Cook is to buy British package holiday rival MyTravel, the  companies said on Monday, creating a new company worth about  2.8 billion pounds ($5.45 billion).
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Real estate investment trust   Hospitality Properties Trust HPT.N on Monday said it agreed   to buy TravelCenters of America Inc., which operates food and   gas service stations along highways, for about $1.9 billion.
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Amid Cendant&#39;s (Quote, Chart) $1.2 billion Orbitz (Quote, Chart) buy, new entrants are rushing to the intersection of the online industry&#39;s hottest sectors: travel booking and search.
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Barry Diller, the internet tycoon, is planning to spilt his $18 billion online empire to float a new publicly quoted dot.com leisure giant built around Expedia, the world&#39;s largest internet travel company.