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ITA Software is a travel industry software division of Google, formerly an independent company, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was founded by Jeremy Wertheimer, a computer scientist from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Cooper Union , [ 1 ] with his partner Richard Aiken in 1996. [ 2 ]
Google (GOOG) is taking to the skies. The search giant announced Thursday afternoon that it plans to bring aboard ITA Software, a flight-information software company, for $700 million. With the ...
Several online travel sites launched a coalition Tuesday to shoot down Google's (GOOG) proposed $700 million buyout of flight search technology developer ITA Software, issuing a mayday to federal ...
Google's (GOOG) $700 million acquisition of ITA Software could be in jeopardy: The U.S. Justice Department is considering an antitrust lawsuit to challenge the pending merger, according to ...
Amadeus IT Group, S.A. (/ ˌ æ m ə ˈ d eɪ ə s aɪ ˈ t iː /) is a major Spanish multinational technology company that provides software for the global travel and tourism industry. It is the world's leading provider of travel technology that focus on developing software for airlines, hotels, travel agencies, and other travel-related businesses.
In April 2011, the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division approved Google's $700 million purchase of ITA Software. [2] On September 13, 2011, Google launched Google Flights, which used algorithms gained from this purchase. [3]
Google's logo. Google is a computer software and a web search engine company that acquired, on average, more than one company per week in 2010 and 2011. [1] The table below is an incomplete list of acquisitions, with each acquisition listed being for the respective company in its entirety, unless otherwise specified.
Clozure CL was used by ITA Software for the business logic of a new Airline Reservation System. [3] Clozure CL is also commonly used as an underlying Common Lisp implementation for the ACL2 theorem prover. [4]