Kayak analyzes a billion queries to uncover secrets behind cheap flights

Kayak's most recent data pull yields the best flight deals, busiest airports, and most popular destinations, and provides tips on how to save money on travel.

The 10 largest tech IPOs of 2012

Facebook may have been the IPO that people everywhere anticipated and then lamented, but 2012 was largely defined by a series of stellar public debuts by enterprise software markers.

Kayak unwraps the best and worst times to travel this holiday season [infographic]

What are the best days to book flights? What are the hottest holiday destinations? How much can you save by traveling on Christmas? All this and more in an exclusive infographic.

Hipmunk scraps old hotel search, builds new one from scratch (updated)

Hipmunk completely revamped its hotels product today, adding in new ways to understand the neighborhoods you're staying in, so you don't get stuck in the family zone, when you really want a fun nightlife.

Book it! Priceline buys Kayak for $1.8B

Shortly after going public, Kayak is getting gobbled up by one of its biggest competitors.

Kayak’s first public earnings fly high with $76.9M revenue, $7.3M net income

Travel search company Kayak reported its first-ever public quarterly earnings today with $76.9 million in revenue, beating Wall Street expectations.

Palo Alto Networks jumps 31 percent out of the IPO gate

This was a good morning for Palo Alto Networks. The security company went public today, with shares jumping 31 percent from its Thursday-priced $42 a share.

The company debuted at $52.20 a share on the New York Stock Exchange under …

Kayak IPO soars at $30.10, up from an initial price of $26

After a long delay, travel search site Kayak finally started trading on the NASDAQ this morning and saw its stock jump 14 percent to $30.10.

Kayak last night priced its IPO at $26, above its prior range of $23 to …

Travel deals site Kayak entering Russia just prior to IPO?

[ updated July 20 with a confirmation from a competitor - see bottom for more details ]

Ahh, LinkedIn we love you.

People can never seem to wait with their profile updates until the public announcement is out. At least, …

Kayak’s IPO finally takes off with shares priced at $22 to $25

Travel search site Kayak‘s long-delayed IPO looks like it will finally lift off, as the company filed an amended S-1 Monday morning that prices its shares at $23 to $25 a pop.

The eight-year-old flight-, hotel-, and car-reservation service originally …

Kayak delays its IPO to avoid ‘the Facebook effect’

They say a rising tide can lift all the boats in a harbor. The same logic applies to a sinking tide, and Kayak apparently has no intentions of going down with the ship, so to speak.

Enough of the watery …

Kayak likely to ride Facebook wave with IPO in coming weeks

Travel search site Kayak will likely time its IPO in the next few weeks to capitalize on the record-breaking Facebook IPO that will happen Friday, according to a CNBC report.

The eight-year-old flight-, hotel-, and car-reservation service originally filed for …

Google Flight Search takes off around the world

Google’s Flight Search app has gone global with new support to check out and compare flights from the U.S. to destinations including Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, and Venice.

Google debuted its flight search tool in September and starting placing flight search …

Kayak gives site a new look, isn’t worried about Google competition

How big of a deal is a site redesign, really? For travel-booking heavy Kayak, it’s everything. That’s why it took the company six months, one $30,000 eye-tracking device, and countless A/B tests to perfect its new website look, which is …

Orbitz, Kayak think Google is abusing its power with travel search

Peak holiday travel may be near its end, but the battle for online travel search is just heating up, with Google’s recently launched flight search tools angering competitors.

Google debuted its flight search tool in September and starting placing its …

Kayak releases updated and unified iPad and iPhone app, takes on TripIt

Travel search site Kayak is releasing a new unified iPad and iPhone app today, replacing its standalone iPad app and adding a sleek itinerary-consolidation feature that seems poised to take on TripIt.

This is actually a major update that will …

Kayak answers the age old question, when are holiday airfares cheapest?

Travel search site Kayak.com processed a whopping 443 million searches in the first half of 2011. There is an information gold mine buried in those hotel and flight queries, as well as answers to some of our most pressing travel …

Google to launch flight search service soon

Google will launch its long-awaited flight search tool in a few weeks, according to a report by TechCrunch.

That means Google’s legal nightmare over its $700 million acquisition of ITA might finally be at an end. The whole hullabaloo started …