Which online business was named for a word from Gulliver's Travels that meant 'rude, unsophisticated, uncouth'?
"Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) Yahoos are legendary beings in the 1726 satirical novel ""Gulliver's Travels"" written by Jonathan Swift. Their behavior and character representation is meant to comment on the state of Europe from Swift's point of view. The word ""yahoo"" was coined by Jonathan Swift in the fourth section of ""Gulliver's Travels"" and has since entered the English language more broadly. Its most famous use is as the name of a pioneering search engine, Yahoo!. Swift describes Yahoos as filthy with unpleasant habits, ""a brute in human form,"" resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel"
"by ""Forbes"", its list of the 400 best managed, public American companies with $1 billion or more in revenues included Expedia for the first time. Expedia Group Expedia Group is an American global travel technology company. Its websites, which are primarily travel fare aggregators and travel metasearch engines, include CarRentals.com, CheapTickets, Expedia.com, HomeAway, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, trivago, and Venere.com. According to Rich Barton, the company's first CEO, the word ""Expedia"" is derived from a combination of ""exploration"" and ""speed"". Founded as a division of Microsoft in October 1996, Expedia was spun off in 1999. In 2003, it was purchased"
"Expedia Group Expedia Group is an American global travel technology company. Its websites, which are primarily travel fare aggregators and travel metasearch engines, include CarRentals.com, CheapTickets, Expedia.com, HomeAway, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, trivago, and Venere.com. According to Rich Barton, the company's first CEO, the word ""Expedia"" is derived from a combination of ""exploration"" and ""speed"". Founded as a division of Microsoft in October 1996, Expedia was spun off in 1999. In 2003, it was purchased by IAC/InterActiveCorp. In August 2005, IAC spun off Expedia Inc., which owned its travel group of businesses, including Expedia, Expedia Corporate Travel (now Egencia), TripAdvisor,"
"with plans to employ to to 200 Korean consultants. Trip.com, along with it's parent company Ctrip, committed to fighting illegal wildlife trade at the Illegal Wildlife Trade London Conference 2018. The original Trip.com (formerly Gogobot), founded by entrepreneurs Travis Katz and Ori Zaltzman, was acquired by Ctrip in 2017. The core product acquired by Ctrip, now renamed as Trip by Skyscanner, has become the content platform powering user-generated content and personalization across the Skyscanner and Trip.com products. Trip.com Trip.com is an online travel agency, first launched in late 2017. The Trip.com brand is owned by Ctrip, the world's second largest"
"by business rivals. KwikChex KwikChex is a Bournemouth based online reputation management firm founded by Chris Emmins. According to Emmins, TripAdvisor unfairly and inconsistently penalises small businesses when a person connected to the business posts reviews when larger businesses are not penalised in the same way. It has particularly questioned the integrity of TripAdvisor's Chinese operation and the Timeshare Consumer Association. Emmins identified “amazingly prolific” reviewers on the TripAdvisor's Chinese site, including one who had posted 2633 reviews between 2010 and 2014. In 2010 the company was canvassing a group defamation action against TripAdvisor for carrying hostile reviews invented or"
", the website has been taken offline. ZipZoomfly ZipZoomfly was an internet retailer for computer parts and related products. Based in Newark, California, ZipZoomfly was founded in May 1999 under the name XtraPlus. The site relaunched in January 2000 as Googlegear. ZipZoomfly is a U.S. service mark of Xtraplus Corporation. A formal complaint by Google to an ICANN domain-name dispute resolution provider led to the company changing its name from Googlegear to ZipZoomFly in 2003. The domain codice_1 is now owned by Google, and codice_2 redirected to a Google page that used to explain that Googlegear had never been associated"
"fares. After taking fare 1 public on the London A.I.M. Exchange in 2000, he founded Tralliance Corporation, the .travel Registry, an Internet domain space established exclusively for the travel and tourism sector (2001–07). In 2006, Ron was recognized as one of the ""Top 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Sales & Marketing"" by Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI), which pays special tribute to outstanding individuals who define innovation, creativity and accomplishment. Currently, he is CEO of dotSport LLC. Ron Andruff Ronald Nicholas Andruff (born July 10, 1953 in Port Alberni, British Columbia and raised in Chemainus, British Columbia) is"
"re-tweeted it without noticing the error but deleted the tweet a day later. After some travel blogs and message boards resposted the code, many ineligible travelers used the code. Travelocity responded by cancelling all trips that used the code who weren't on the list of attendees at the NFB annual conference. This resulted in a barrage of complaints from customers angry to see their trips suddenly cancelled. Travelocity Travelocity.com is an American online travel agency. The website is owned by Expedia Group. American Airlines began offering customer access to its electronic reservation system, Sabre, in 1978 to travel agencies, and"
"B funding, led by Scale Venture Partners and Notion Capital, bringing its total venture capital funding to $31.2 million. The company is privately held. Unbabel Unbabel is an artificial intelligence powered human translation platform. With headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal, and San Francisco, California, the company is focused on the translation of customer service communications. Its customers include easyJet, Booking.com, Rovio Entertainment, Under Armour, Pinterest, and Facebook. Unbabel combines Neural Machine Translation with machine learning and a crowdsourced model to differentiate itself from other translation service providers. The name Unbabel is derived from the biblical story of Babel. Unbabel was founded"
"Gizmodo Media Group Gizmodo Media Group is an online media company and blog network operated by Univision Communications in its Fusion Media Group division. The company was created from assets acquired from Gawker Media during its bankruptcy in 2016. On June 10, 2016, Gawker Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the company was ordered to pay $115 million in compensatory damages and a further $25 million in punitive damages in ""Bollea v. Gawker"". On August 16, 2016, Univision Communications purchased Gawker for $135 million. The purchase did not include the flagship website Gawker. It included the websites Gizmodo,"
"was an infringement on GAP Inc. clothing. The ruling stated that the name and brand Gap Adventures caused legitimate confusion and dilution of the brand for the clothing company. Therefore, G Adventures was required to change its name by October 1, 2011. In January 2017, G Adventures acquired British travel brands Travelsphere and Just You, which are based in Market Harborough, United Kingdom. In 2018, G Adventures was recognized as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company and was honoured with an Edison Award for Social Impact. In 2011 G Adventures partnered with the non-profit organization Global"
"Travelocity Travelocity.com is an American online travel agency. The website is owned by Expedia Group. American Airlines began offering customer access to its electronic reservation system, Sabre, in 1978 to travel agencies, and in the mid-1980s on CompuServe and GEnie to consumers under the ""eAAsySabre"" brand name. This service was extended to America Online in the 1990s. The CEO of the eAAsySabre was Kathy Misunas. Travelocity was created in 1995 through a joint venture between Worldview Systems Corporation and Sabre Holdings. The founding team at Worldview conceived of the idea in 1994 as an extension to their online travel database"
"the value of the booking for one time cleans. Helpling Helpling (former names: Hassle.com and Teddle) is a Vauxhall, London-based online booking and payment platform that connects customers with pre-vetted local cleaners. In July 2015, the on-demand cleaning marketplace Helpling bought Hassle.com. In June 2014, ""The Times"" listed Hassle.com as one of the top ten disruptive digital startups. It's former CEO was Alex Depledge, who exited the business after it was acquired by Helpling. Alex Depledge, Jules Coleman, and Tom Nimmo co-founded the company in March 2012. Teddle launched in Shoreditch in late 2012 with the aid of Techstars London"
"player Dirk Nowitzki's UDRP of DirkSwish.com and actress Eva Longoria's UDRP of EvaLongoria.org. Since 2006, a typosquatted variant of Google called 'Goggle.com' has existed which was considered a phishing/fraud site; later (ca. 2011–2012) the URL redirected to google.com, while a 2018 check revealed it to redirect users to adware pages. Another example of corporate typosquatting is ""yuube.com"", targeting YouTube users by having it programmed to redirect to a malicious website or page, that asks users to add a security check extension that is really malware. Similarly, ""www.airfrance.com"" has been typosquatted by ""www.arifrance.com"", diverting users to a website peddling discount travel."
"KwikChex KwikChex is a Bournemouth based online reputation management firm founded by Chris Emmins. According to Emmins, TripAdvisor unfairly and inconsistently penalises small businesses when a person connected to the business posts reviews when larger businesses are not penalised in the same way. It has particularly questioned the integrity of TripAdvisor's Chinese operation and the Timeshare Consumer Association. Emmins identified “amazingly prolific” reviewers on the TripAdvisor's Chinese site, including one who had posted 2633 reviews between 2010 and 2014. In 2010 the company was canvassing a group defamation action against TripAdvisor for carrying hostile reviews invented or exaggerated, or posted"
"Mirror"" in July 2008. The firm responded by discontinuing the relationship with highstreetmax.com and saying, 'Once our customers leave our site they are given an option to sign-up for a third-party cash back programme. When they sign up within the terms and conditions it is made clear that further payments will be taken. However we have had some feedback from customers who have inadvertently signed up. On this basis we feel that it is the right thing to do to take this off our site.' Lastminute.com lastminute.com is an online travel and leisure retailer. The company was founded by Martha"
"Gloveler Gloveler is an online marketplace and hospitality service that facilitates peer-to-peer property rental, primarily vacation rentals and homestays in Germany. Like all hospitality services, it is an example of collaborative consumption and sharing. Gloveler traces its roots from a business plan competition in Stuttgart in 2007. In 2009, the website was launched. Between 2012 and 2014, the 3 founders, Armin Harbrecht, Andreas Sperber, and Marco Umfahrer, all left the company. In 2015, Frank Hofmann took over as manager of the company. In October 2016, the company faced preliminary insolvency. In November 2016, Cultuzz Digital Media GmbH acquired the company."
"Gloveler Gloveler is an online marketplace and hospitality service that facilitates peer-to-peer property rental, primarily vacation rentals and homestays in Germany. Like all hospitality services, it is an example of collaborative consumption and sharing. Gloveler traces its roots from a business plan competition in Stuttgart in 2007. In 2009, the website was launched. Between 2012 and 2014, the 3 founders, Armin Harbrecht, Andreas Sperber, and Marco Umfahrer, all left the company. In 2015, Frank Hofmann took over as manager of the company. In October 2016, the company faced preliminary insolvency. In November 2016, Cultuzz Digital Media GmbH acquired the company."
"Trip by Skyscanner Trip by Skyscanner (formerly known as Gogobot and Trip.com) is a local discovery and travel research application and website headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The company is acquired by Skyscanner, a subsidiary of the Ctrip Group. Trip by Skyscanner allows users to research destinations and places to go, including hotels, restaurants, bars and attractions in more than 60,000 destinations, and its users can share reviews and pictures from their own travel experiences. ""Forbes"" has referred to the company as a ""social network for travelers."" Founded in 2010, Trip by Skyscanner is the fifth most visited travel-planning site"
"eagerness..."" and """"gs."" of col, as ""a."", wicked."" The company name had previously been spelled ""Cuill"". Cuil received widely critical press coverage. Concerns were expressed about the website's slow response times, irrelevant or wrong search results and in at least one case, inappropriately pornographic images displayed alongside search results. Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch questioned the validity of Cuil's claim that it had the world's largest search engine index and criticized it for focusing on size rather than relevance. However, despite reported problems with search results, Net Applications reported that for the last three days of July 2008, Cuil"
"private in March 2007. The corporation introduced the new logo and changed from the all-caps acronym ""SABRE"" to the mixed-case ""Sabre Holdings"", when the new corporation was formed. The Travelocity website, introduced in 1996, was owned by Sabre Holdings. Travelocity was acquired by Expedia in January 2015. Sabre Holdings' three remaining business units, Sabre Travel Network, Sabre Airline Solutions and Sabre Hospitality, today serves as a global travel technology company. The system connects more than travel agents and millions of travelers with more than 400 airlines, 90,000 hotels, 30 car-rental companies, 200 tour operators, and dozens of railways, ferries and"
"Jo Webber take on the role of CEO. The company relocated to Hermosa Beach, California in June 2012. In Fall 2011, the company dropped the Moggle Inc. name, and became Virtual Piggy, Inc. It was publicly traded at the symbol VPIG. The technology is COPPA-compliant, The company has been featured in many articles as the first company to digitize a teen's monthly allowance. ""Forbes"" referred to the service as ""PayPal for Kids"". Oink is notable for being the first, and currently the only service that enables transactions for under-13 users that are COPPA-compliant. This means the service is the only"
"that week, with the Tour's start in London. Global Investor Alerts has issued a public warning alerting that Masterseek Corp. is cold-calling potential customers offering unauthorised and illegal financial services. There have also been multiple reports of the Masterseek engine crawling profiles of individuals illegally violating privacy and fair use policies of services like LinkedIn to create and publicly publish profiles of individuals without their consent while providing no control over editing the profiles to the owners of such profiles. Thus violating civil and criminal laws of multiple jurisdictions around the world. Masterseek Masterseek Corp. is a B2B (business-to-business) search"
"a collection of four websites designed for female users: the high fashion getlippy.com, the fashion and home life-focused allaboutyou.com, a ""specialist pregnancy site"" gomamatoday.com and handbag.com. On 2 February 2009 it was announced that the brothers' Shop Direct Group had purchased the Woolworths and Ladybird brand names for an undisclosed amount, from Deloitte, the administrators of the failed Woolworths Group. In 1992, they entered the newspaper publishing industry, buying ""The European"" newspaper, formerly part of Robert Maxwell's holdings. The weekly paper became a high-end business tabloid, but was closed in 1998. In 1995 they bought ""The Scotsman"" newspaper, and in"
"Lastminute.com Group Lastminute.com Group (formerly known as Bravofly Rumbo Group) is a publicly traded multinational Group in the online travel industry and owns a number of brands including lastminute.com, , Rumbo, Bravofly, Jetcost and Hotelscan. Every month, the Group reaches across all its websites and mobile apps (in 17 languages and 40 countries) 43 million users that search for and book their travel and leisure experiences. More than 1,200 people work for the Group, which conducts its business through its operational headquarters in Chiasso (Switzerland) and a further 10 offices worldwide. The Lastminute.com Group, was founded in 2006, but traces"
"include a magazine, ""Opinio"", much older projects such as a web site, Tradingcars.com, and the telecommunications company Stonehenge. Efforts to start MyGuide, a company specializing in GPS navigation units and meant to compete with TomTom, also failed. Roel Pieper has been held accountable by the receivership of MyGuide for the lack of an administration, a coherent strategy and inferior products. There is currently a claim of 2 million Euros pending, which Pieper claims to be erroneous. At the trial it was noted that he maintained bad bookkeeping but due to the nature of the laws was unable to be held"
"Rich Barton Richard Barton (born June 2, 1967) is an American former Microsoft executive and founder of online travel company (and Microsoft spinoff) Expedia, Inc., real-estate internet company Zillow, and job search engine and career community Glassdoor. He also founded the online travel photography sharing site Trover, which was acquired by Expedia in 2016. Barton is also a venture partner at Benchmark and is on the board of directors for Netflix, Avvo, RealSelf, Nextdoor and Artsy. In 2002, he was named as one of the top 100 innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review. In April 2014, he was named"
"Matt Gander being rechristened ""non-shiny goose"", and a Mr. Tedesco being called ""Safedeway"", alluding to supermarket chains Tesco and Safeway. Bubblegun.com is a website that was established by Paul Rose, and featured contributions from several other writers. Touting itself as a Pop Culture version of ""Digitiser"", this site gained popularity around the last few years of ""Digitiser"", being named by Select magazine as one of the UK's top 10 ""maverick websites"". Though Paul Rose has not written for the site in over a decade, it remains as an archive run by its former designer, Steve Horsley. Though remaining unaffiliated with"
"are recognized by the medical establishment as harmful or as misleading. In 2017, consumer advocacy group Truth in Advertising filed a complaint with the government regulatory agency regarding over 50 health claims made by Goop as dangerous and false. Goop began as a newsletter in 2008, with an editor's note in each email from Paltrow offering insight into her daily life. Goop was incorporated in 2011. According to Paltrow, the company's name ""is a nickname, like my name is G.P., so that is really where it came from. And I wanted it to be a word that means nothing and"
"Unbabel Unbabel is an artificial intelligence powered human translation platform. With headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal, and San Francisco, California, the company is focused on the translation of customer service communications. Its customers include easyJet, Booking.com, Rovio Entertainment, Under Armour, Pinterest, and Facebook. Unbabel combines Neural Machine Translation with machine learning and a crowdsourced model to differentiate itself from other translation service providers. The name Unbabel is derived from the biblical story of Babel. Unbabel was founded in August 2013 by Vasco Pedro, Joao Graça, Sofia Pessanha, Bruno Silva, and Hugo Silva and was incubated by Y Combinator in late 2014."
"entered into a series of business and technology relationships. These relationships were terminated after Abacus engaged in fraudulent and deceptive practices, for which Worldspan received a sizable judgement in an arbitration in London. Worldspan Worldspan is a provider of travel technology and content and a part of the Travelport GDS business. It offers worldwide electronic distribution of travel information, Internet products and connectivity, and e-commerce capabilities for travel agencies, travel service providers and corporations. Its primary system is commonly known as a Global Distribution System (GDS), which is used by travel agents and travel related websites to book airline tickets,"
"matter of hours. ""The Wall Street Journal"" carried reports commenting on the irony of the situation, noting the site's message that the press exposure due to the threats from the Church of Scientology had increased its traffic over tenfold. Mel Gibson has not raised objections to use of the parody term ""PassionofCruise"". ""E! News"" reported that though Stollery had originally agreed to take down the site, it was still running and accessible as of July 2006, when the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization awarded Cruise rights to the domain name ""TomCruise.com"" over claims of a cybersquatter. In addition to"
"the site from Beckham’s Oklahoma City apartment in the fall of that year. The company name is a portmanteau of the words ""quick"" and ""bids"", and is pronounced the way both words sound. In November 2013, QuiBids officially re-branded itself as an entertainment retail auction site, selling products such as consumer electronics, home and garden products, apparel and jewelry. The ""okcBIZ"" website named QuiBids the third best small company to work for in Oklahoma in June 2012. There have been many complaints since QuiBids launched and some reviews claiming they are a scam. In 2015, they launched a Locked Auction"