Microsoft announced on Saturday that it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo! after the two companies could not come to an agreement on a price and other terms.
At the final meeting on Saturday Yahoo said the lowest price they could accept was $37 per share. Microsoft offered $33 per share (up from the initial [...]

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Far more consumers say they will restrain their holiday spending this year than last year, according to a survey from AOL Travel and Zogby International. Signs of economic uncertainty among consumers help explain consumers’ increased spending restraint. However increasing use of the internet for holiday shopping is a positive sign for Internet retailers.
Survey Reveals How [...]

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The Google marketing manager Alexandra Kenin informs that Google AdWords now offers mobile image ads. The ads are the same as typical Google image ads but small enough to fit on a mobile phone’s screen.
The new service is available in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, [...]

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Microsoft is the mystery buyer of Farecast, the Seattle online travel startup. Farecast is a travel search provider which predicts when there is the most ideal time for travellers to purchase tickets.
John Cook is reporting that Farecast has been acquired by Microsoft for $115 million.
The buyout of Farecast was confirmed on the Farecast Blog:
‘We’re excited [...]

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Web 2.0 offers a number of opportunities for hoteliers in sales and marketing process. It became apparent that the economy is having a significant impact on customers travel plans. Consumers are smarter in every facet of their buying behaviour and marketers need to do a lot to ensure that they meet all customers’ expectations and [...]

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Search Engine Land lists the ten hottest tips for successful paid marketing. The tips are about fine-tuning your search engine marketing, improving the quality and performance of your account – without raising costs. These ten optimization strategies help achieve success with paid advertising campaigns.
Chances are, if you’re reading this you’re either running a cost-per-click (CPC) [...]

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The British Hotel Guest Survey 2008, researched and produced by BDRC, has been released. This annual survey focuses on the UK domestic hotel market both in the business and leisure sectors.
According to the survey, internet search engines remain the preferred information source for business and leisure travellers and internet bookings continue to rise. Likewise, 36% [...]

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As the battle for influencing and retaining consumer evolves, what does “loyalty” stand for hoteliers? Online travel agencies continue to innovate and create new services and tools that improve the travel experience. In order to become successful on the online space they understand that adding value to the trip booked through their sites in a [...]

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The Internet Advertising Bureau, UK based advertising trade organization, claims that the latest numbers and projections for the UK advertising industry continue to look very strong with an online spend of £2.8bn in 2007 and forecasts that online ad spending will reach £4bn during 2009.
The Internet Advertising Bureau reported last year a growth of the [...]

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