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Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Post by harscoat » Wed, Nov 17, 2010, 2:51 PM UTC

smackfu wrote: post #6

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From the article, it sounds like Kayak already uses ITA. Everyone in this space is scared of Google though, if they manage to buy ITA.

My reasoning: nothing to do against Google (come on 50M?) but against new innovative entrants like Hipmunk, 50M well spent can make a difference. my 2cts

Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Post by smackfu » Wed, Nov 17, 2010, 2:52 PM UTC

Interesting how much money they get from other travel booking agencies. These are basically referrals of referrals.

Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Post by ojbyrne » Wed, Nov 17, 2010, 3:10 PM UTC

krschultz wrote: post #10

I didn't realize that the Kayak founders have a member from basically every other major competitor. I would love to hear that story.

I think if you look at any large website in the travel space, that holds true, it seems to be an especially incestuous industry. When I worked at Tripadvisor (owned by Expedia) we had significant numbers of people in our group from Travelocity.

Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Post by josh-a » Wed, Nov 17, 2010, 3:23 PM UTC

harscoat wrote: post #11

smackfu wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the article, it sounds like Kayak already uses ITA. Everyone in this space is scared of Google though, if they manage to buy ITA.

My reasoning: nothing to do against Google (come on 50M?) but against new innovative entrants like Hipmunk, 50M well spent can make a difference. my 2cts

Other news articles have said that the 50M number is just a placeholder, but speculate a company value between 700M and 1B

Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Post by candre717 » Wed, Nov 17, 2010, 3:29 PM UTC

josh-a wrote: post #14

harscoat wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My reasoning: nothing to do against Google (come on 50M?) but against new innovative entrants like Hipmunk, 50M well spent can make a difference. my 2cts

Other news articles have said that the 50M number is just a placeholder, but speculate a company value between 700M and 1B

Thanks for clearing that up. I thought that number was too low to be credible.

Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Post by thushan » Wed, Nov 17, 2010, 3:34 PM UTC

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.

Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Post by ccarpenterg » Wed, Nov 17, 2010, 3:40 PM UTC

smackfu wrote: post #6

[deleted] wrote: post #2

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From the article, it sounds like Kayak already uses ITA. Everyone in this space is scared of Google though, if they manage to buy ITA.

What investors of Kayak and Hipmunk must be thinking about Google buying ITA Software? I mean Google is going to become the provider of flights data and at the same time a competitor.

Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Post by mrduncan » Wed, Nov 17, 2010, 3:50 PM UTC

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.

Kayak has an api (limited to 1000 searches / day): http://www.kayak.com/labs/api/search/

I believe that Orbitz will require you talk to someone in order to get access to their api.

Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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Re: Kayak Files for $50 million IPO

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