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15 years ago 2001 07 16 alexa rank 425 september 2016 update 1 current status active expedia.com is a travel website owned by expedia inc. the website can be used to book airline tickets hotel reservations car rentals cruises vacation packages and various attractions and services via the world wide web and telephone travel agents . the site uses multiple global distribution systems like amadeus or the sabre reservation systems for flights and for hotels worldspan and pegasus along with its own hotel reservation system for contracted bulk rate reservations . in addition to the united states there are localized sites for argentina australia austria belgium brazil canada china denmark finland france germany hong kong indonesia india ireland italy japan south korea malaysia mexico netherlands new zealand norway philippines singapore spain sweden taiwan thailand uk us and vietnam . contents 1 history 2 references 3 further reading 4 external links history edit the website initially launched on october 22 1996 as the first microsoft internet property . the initial team was composed of greg slyngstad group manager ; richard barton group product manager ; soraya bittencourt group program manager ; and byron bishop group developer manager . in 2001 bill gates decided to spin off the property to become a public company . 2 rich barton became its ceo and lloyd frink who used to work for richard at microsoft joined the now independent company . in july 2001 usa networks inc. bought expedia from microsoft . 3 in december 2010 listings for amr corporation the parent company of american airlines and american eagle airlines were removed from expedia s site . the decision resulted from a dispute over the degree of access to the site s customers . 4 amr reversed its decision in april 2011 allowing tickets to once again be sold through the aggregate site . citation needed in june 2014 expedia started accepting bitcoins . 5 in september 2014 expedia inc. partnered with citigroup and created the expedia card where members can earn bonus points and earn benefits and priority customer service through the website . 6 references edit expedia.com site info . alexa internet . retrieved 2016 09 06 . microsoft announces expedia online travel service initial public offering expedia.com usa networks inc. announces agreement to purchase controlling stake in expedia becoming a leader in interactive travel expedia viewfinder . expedia viewfinder . 2001 07 16 . retrieved 2016 03 24 . cnn wire staff january 3 2011 . online travel site expedia removes american airlines flights . cnn . retrieved 14 may 2014 . expedia now accepts bitcoin for your crypto vacations expedia card from citi . further reading edit alexander todd 2012 . everyday internet at any age . hachette uk . pp . chapter 8 . isbn 0733629717 . retrieved 14 may 2014 . barr alistair january 21 2014 . expedia hit by big drop in google search traffic . usa today . retrieved 14 may 2014 . tims anna march 29 2014 . expedia needs to speed up 2 500 refund for flights . the guardian . retrieved 14 may 2014 . external links edit official website v t e expedia inc. people barry diller chairman of the board dara khosrowshahi president and ceo subsidiaries brands and divisions current expedia hotels.com hotwire.com trivago venere.com wotif.com travelocity orbitz homeaway former tripadvisor spun off in 2011 elong spun off in 2015 headquarters expedia building v t e travel search engines search engines busbud cheapflights cheapoair dohop expedia farecompare fromatob.com goeuro google flights hipmunk hotel tonight hotelscombined ixigo.com jetcost jetradar kayak.com lagisatu.com loco2 mobissimo momondo msn travel orbitz priceline.com rome2rio scout skyscanner studentuniverse travelocity trivago voyagermoinscher.com wanderu webjet wego.com whole travel yatra defunct bing travel busjunction sidestep zoombu category retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title expedia website & oldid 741739797 categories internet properties established in 1996opentravel alliancetravel ticket search enginestravel websitesexpedia inc.internet properties established in 2001universal windows platform appshidden categories articles with a promotional tone from october 2014all articles with a promotional tonearticles needing additional references from october 2014all articles needing additional referencesarticles containing potentially dated statements from september 2016all articles containing potentially dated statementsall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from may 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages danskespa olitaliano edit links this page was last modified on 29 september 2016 at 10 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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