Spring 1995: Founded as a tiny division within Microsoft to create a travel CD-ROM. Rich Barton, the division’s first product manager, persuades the company to start an online-travel business. Oct. 22 ...
REDMOND, Wash. -- Expedia, a top dog in online consumer travel, entered the managed corporate market by purchasing Metropolitan Travel, a $150 million travel agency in Seattle and the 39th-largest U.S ...