Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

We’ve been hard at work here at the GeekWire offices over the past few weeks, prepping for the big GeekWire Awards show on May 8th at Seattle’s EMP museum. (Sorry folks, the event is now officially ...

Earlier this month, Microsoft killed Bing's Farecast feature, which predicted whether airline fares were likely to rise or fall in the future, the company confirmed to Geekwire's John Cook. Microsoft ...

Whether Bing Travel/Farecast could have made it and competed just based on the flight prediction differentiator is open to debate, but Microsoft Bing never even gave it a try. By submitting this form, ...

The old Farecast service. Courtesy of the Wayback Machine. One of the most popular features of the old Farecast travel search engine has taken its last voyage. MIcrosoft, which paid $115 million for ...

The New York Times reports that airlines are increasingly deriving their revenue from sources other than ticket sales, and one interesting revenue stream they highlight is a kind of financial product: ...

Since the shopping service Decide.com launched in beta test mode last June, promising to bring price prediction to electronics gadgets, it claims to have been 77% accurate in predicting when you ...

On Friday, Microsoft announced a partnership with Kayak to provide travel results. Jay Bhatti is a former Microsoft employee who founded the people-search engine Spock. Here's what he sees in the deal ...

One of my favorite features that Microsoft acquired and added to Bing Search was Farecast. Farecast was a flight search engine that offered pricing predictions. I.e. should you buy now or wait for the ...

SEATTLE — April 2, 2009 — Today the Fareologists at Live Search Farecast (http://farecast.live.com) issued the 2009 Summer Travel Forecast, which shows a dramatic ...

Farecast has issued its 2009 Spring Break Forecast Fares for spring break travel -- Feb. 28 through April 5 -- and is predicting a drop of more than 15 percent from 2008, reaching roughly the same ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Expect to spend more to fly home for the holidays this year, say the experts at Live Search Farecast. Fares for Thanksgiving 2008 are up 31 percent from 2007, while Christmas and New ...