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Avast packaged detailed user data to be sold for millions of dollars
The popular antivirus program Avast has been selling users data to giant companies like Google, Home Depot, Microsoft and Pepsi, a joint investigation by Motherboard and PCMag found. Avast reportedly scraped data from its antivirus software and hande...
Orbitz data breach exposed 880,000 payment cards
Orbitz announced today that it has discovered evidence of a data breach. Between October and December of last year, hackers may have accessed consumer data submitted to a legacy website between January 1, 2016 and June 22, 2016. Additionally, Orbitz...
Google will no longer offer its flight price data to other sites
Google is getting serious about its role as a travel service. Come April 10, 2018 the search giant will shut down access to its QPX Express API that's used by the likes of Kayak and Orbitz for airfare data, as spotted by Hacker News. This could serio...
Uber has its new CEO: Dara Khosrowshahi
Uber's board of directors (which still includes the previous CEO Travis Kalanick) has made its pick for a new leader official, selecting Dara Khosrowshahi. The former CEO of Expedia, he was reportedly selected over former HP CEO Meg Whitman and forme...
Uber picks Expedia chief as its new CEO
Uber's lengthy, sometimes tumultuous search for a new CEO is over. Sources talking to both the New York Times and Recode have learned that the ridesharing company has picked Expedia chief Dara Khosrowshahi as its new leader. The company will only s...
GitHub rallies Silicon Valley companies to oppose Muslim ban
GitHub plans to meet with a number of Silicon Valley tech companies to discuss filing an amicus brief in lawsuits targeting Trump's immigration and refugee ban.
AirBnB reportedly working on a flight-booking feature
Bloomberg reports that short-term rental listing service, AirBnB is looking to get into airline reservation game as well. According to unnamed sources within the company, AirBnB's plans are still in the formational stages. The company could either ac...
CES 2017: Expedia Chairman Barry Diller Will Deliver C Space Keynote
The Chairman and Senior Executive of Expedia, Inc.; Barry Diller will be coming to CES 2017 to deliver a keynote address. Expedia, Inc. is a America based company which owns and operates many...
Expedia to pay $3.9 billion for Airbnb competitor HomeAway
The short-term rental market is growing, and Expedia understandably wants a piece of it. After snapping up Orbitz and Travelocity earlier this year, it has now decided to purchase HomeAway. It's an online service that focuses on renting out vacatio...