AOL Enters the Online Travel Market
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New service will compete with sites like Travelocity.com and Expedia.
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European travel agencies are ceding a rising share of their business to the Internet, as consumers grow accustomed to less personal service but more flexibility.
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Also: AOL's mobile ambitions. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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With one deal, Cendant Corp. is moving from an also-ran to one of the top players in the booming online travel business. The company is already one of the world&#39;s biggest travel and real
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A new breed of specialty search engines promise to deliver the best bargains to travelers using the web to find the best airfares and accommodations. They're challenging established sites like Travelocity, Expedia and Orbitz.
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America Online is testing a souped-up, totally redesigned pre-release of its widely visited AOL.com homepage. After lying dormant in the trappings of its classic design scheme, AOL.com has entered the era of high bandwidth. Much like other leading Web portals, users have their pick of news and other content feeds. Lastly, AOL has moved its search engine â powered by Google â front and center along with the most popular AOL.com destinations.
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What better acquisition for a niche travel search engine company than a niche travel social network?Today SideStep announced that they have done just so with the acquisition of TripUp, a web community based around travel. TripUp is a popular online destination chocked full of user generated travel blogs, photos, videos, maps, and reviews; somewhat similar to [...]
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America Online is aiming to get a piece of the travel search market, announcing plans to introduce a new Web-based property to compete with the likes of Travelocity.
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AOL said Friday that it signed a multiyear marketing and technology partnership with Kayak Software to build its own site to enter the big business of online travel.
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By Anonymous  Fruitful times for AOL. which bought a controlling interest in ad- serving company ADTECH. This will extend AOL's global reach to 25 countries. Londoners can now share views about content in thelondonpaper, which has launched an SMS drive.
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After 22 years in the Dulles/Reston area of Virginia, AOL will move the majority of its operations to New York City to be closer to the hub of worldwide advertising, which makes up a good deal of its new business model.
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When Che Carsner wanted to find discount airline tickets for his parents from the Miami area to New York, he knew where to look. The Manhattan real estate agent logged onto Kayak.com, a new online travel aggregator, and typed in some dates. Within seconds, dozens of options appeared. Among them: a $140 round-trip fare from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to LaGuardia airport on US Airways, which he booked.
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Over the past few years, the Internet has seen new domain names such as '.eu' for Europe and '.travel' for the travel industry.Comment
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America Online is joining a growing number of players beyond traditional phone companies rolling out or testing phone calls over the Internet.
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Time Warner's AOL has acquired San Diego-based flash startup widget producer Goowy for an undisclosed sum. Widgetized versions of AOL properties could be the next step for the dinosaur ISP.
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AOL's roots are in Dulles, but the company wants to bite the Big Apple.
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Passwords alone won't be enough to get onto America Online under a new, optional log-on service that makes AOL the first major U.S. online business to offer customers a second layer of security...