Tag archive: Travelocity

If you thought the Google-Microsoft rift only extended to stolen search terms, you'd be wrong. Google spokesperson Adam Kovacevich, who deals specifically with anti-trust issues for the company, tells Politico.com that the search giant is taking an unprecedented amount of heat from lawmakers in Washington D.C. — and it's all Microsoft's fault. According to Kovacevich, Microsoft has helped establish an “anti-Google… Read More

Last summer, Google made moves to acquire ITA Software, which makes the software that dozens of airlines and ticket sites use to make online reservations. Naturally, competitors took issue with the deal, and responded by creating FairSearch, to lobby the public and Department of Justice into stopping Google's travel search scheme. Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Google may have an antitrust lawsuit courtesy of the US Justice Department… Read More

After announcing its plans this summer to acquire flight booking software company ITA, Google has incurred the wrath of travel websites, including Expedia, Hotwire, Kayak, and Travelocity. The collaboration has been complicated for Google from the get-go, with opposition not only from its would-be online travel competitors, but also from the US Justice Department. But what Google wants, Google usually gets. Most major travel websites use ITA,… Read More

Travelocity.com has become the first online travel company to be hit with a fine for booking trips from the U.S. to Cuba.   The company had paid$182,750 to settle a complaint from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control. Travelocity.com is said to have violated the 45-year-oldprohibition on travel between the U.S. and Cuba nearly 1,500 times between January 1998 and April 2004.   It is possible to receive… Read More