Is the T-mobile, AT&T merger the death knell for US smartphone innovation?

Simple analysis from GigaOM points to a gloomy future for US consumers if the deal is allowed to go ahead.

http://gigaom.com/2011/03/20/in-att-t-mobile-merger-everybody-loses/

Google To Acquire BeatThatQuote.com

With Google's direct entry into travel and finance verticals markets, what impact will this have on the ability of competing price comparison websites to reach and add value to their customers cost effectively?


Google To Acquire BeatThatQuote.com

Can you see the wood from the trees?

http://www.economist.com/node/15557443?story_id=15557443&source=most_read?sa_campaign=twitter

New ATOL reforms will force dynamics packagers to rethink pricing and economics

http://www.ttglive.com/c/portal/layout?p_l_id=3208370&CMPI_SHARED_articleId=4562630&CMPI_SHARED_CommentArticleId=4562630&CMPI_SHARED_ImageArticleId=4562630&CMPI_SHARED_ToolsArticleId=4562630&CMPI_SHARED_articleIdRelated=4562630&articleTitle=Transport%20minister%20unveils%20Atol%20reforms

New ATOL reforms will require many dynamic packagers to rethink their business economics

Economist: Online travel consolidation

The coming travel-website consolidation
Jan 26th 2011

RIVALS can quickly become allies if it makes business sense. Last year AXA Private Equity and Permira competed fiercely in takeover battles of two European travel websites. AXA won the upper hand in the bidding war for Go Voyages, a French travel website, while Permira snapped up eDreams, a Barcelona-based travel website that AXA also coveted. Now the two private-equity firms have joined forces in a takeover bid for Opodo, Europe’s biggest travel website.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2011/01/online_travel_firms