GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by John Cook on Jan 5, 2013 at 8:30 am ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Jacob Demmitt on Jul 31, 2015 at ...

Yapta, a new way to track and compare airline ticket prices has opened its doors to the public. The private beta, which launched a while back, is now open to anyone, though the service is still in ...

Airfare prices and hotel rates can be extremely volatile. But the mysterious game of travel booking is getting easier with sites like Airfarewatchdog.com or tools like Orbitz's price assurance, Bing's ...

The rise of technology was meant to create an environment where we didn't have to transact business face-to-face. The theory went that by using things like web conferencing, individuals would be able ...

Yapta has launched a second version of its hotel analytics tool TravelAI Hotel, a year after the initial version. The tool complements Yapta's hotel price-tracking solution, RoomIQ. On the updated ...

I don’t know what it is about Seattle and travel startups, but newcomer Yapta now joins Farecast and TripHub, two other startups we’ve been tracking from that cold, rainy place. I saw a pre-launch ...

Yapta's hotel rebooking tool now can rebook like-for-like rooms within the same property automatically, without assistance from an agent. To do so, Yapta reviews for the same rate code, same bed type, ...

The airline industry has perhaps the most cryptic pricing structure known to man and deciphering it to get the best deal is never easy. Yapta (short for Your Amazing Personal Travel Assistant), a new ...

If you're anything like a typical frequent flier, trying to find a "free" award seat on a flight you want is frustrating at best, impossible at worst. Recognizing that millions of travelers like you ...

Yapta, a service that informs you when the price of plane tickets you want drops, has raised $2.3 million. The company is one of many trying to provide ways for people to save money on airfare, but ...