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Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Post by keenans »

dlokshin wrote: post #9

TC article keeps referring to revenue and net income as compared to a year ago which was a notoriously bad year for the travel industry. So these growth numbers don't really mean anything. Would be really interesting to see where Kayak stands in comparison to 2007 & 08.

Kayak's S1 filing has a lot of interesting nuggets of information. The data you're after is on page 29:

2007 Revenues / Net Income: $48M / ($4.36M) 2008 Revenues / Net Income: $112M / $5.1M

Keep in mind they acquired SideStep at the end of 07.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1312928/0001193125102...

Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Post by tomhoward »

thushan wrote: post #16

Does anyone know of any other solutions for this kind of data other than ITA? Are there any open/cheap APIs for getting at scheduling/price data? I hear Hipmunk is using Orbitz currently to power their results (or so someone said on that recent TechCrunch article in the comments). Does Orbitz have some API? Would be a fun data set to play with if one is openly available, though I love what Hipmunk is already doing.

The lack of open/cheap APIs is probably the biggest factor that keeps innovation in travel so slow.

My company, Adioso (YC W09) has a free API in beta. It's what's used to power http://destmapper.com/. Coverage is limited but soon to start expanding rapidly. Email me - tom at adioso dotcom - if you're interested.

Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Post by ThomPete »

thushan wrote: post #16

Does anyone know of any other solutions for this kind of data other than ITA? Are there any open/cheap APIs for getting at scheduling/price data? I hear Hipmunk is using Orbitz currently to power their results (or so someone said on that recent TechCrunch article in the comments). Does Orbitz have some API? Would be a fun data set to play with if one is openly available, though I love what Hipmunk is already doing.

You should check out Everbread http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/03/23/stealth-travel-search-en...

A really really impressive piece of technology.

Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Post by DeusExMachina »

huadie wrote: post #19

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This is the first time that I see spam make it to the comments of an articles. Is there a way, other than flagging the comment, to report the account as well?

Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Post by gms »

thushan wrote: post #16

Does anyone know of any other solutions for this kind of data other than ITA? Are there any open/cheap APIs for getting at scheduling/price data? I hear Hipmunk is using Orbitz currently to power their results (or so someone said on that recent TechCrunch article in the comments). Does Orbitz have some API? Would be a fun data set to play with if one is openly available, though I love what Hipmunk is already doing.

While Orbitz might offer an API, I believe that underneath the hood they also use ITA. ITA currently have no competitors in this space.

Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Post by prodigal_erik »

DeusExMachina wrote: post #25
huadie wrote: post #19

=========== :) http://www.newgoin.com ============= We specialized in the exportation of sport shoes and other products(clothing, bag,sunglasses,watches,belts,etc )which have great enjoyed popularty in the world market Many of our goods are on sales ,we can guarantee the crediblity by Pay-pal and delivery time .we would like to make a long termship. 1)Name : The perfect gift. 2)Grade : AAA+ 3)Package : in original bo…

This is the first time that I see spam make it to the comments of an articles. Is there a way, other than flagging the comment, to report the account as well?

Not for us non-admins. There may be some undisclosed code which reacts to consistent comment flagging, though.

Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Post by jfarmer »

aberkowitz wrote: post #24

Luckily for them, flight search is such a small [1] industry. [1] orbitz, chapoair, hipmunk, expedia, travelocity, farecompare, cheaptickets, hotwire, priceline, kinkaa, zoombu, cheapflights, etc

Funny enough, these sites (including Kayak) are pushing users away from flight booking and towards hotel booking because the margins are much larger.

kayak.com defaults to hotel search now, for example.

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