GOOG Google may build online travel site -- ZDNet blog (406.82 )
ZDNet.com reported on a blog earlier this week that GOOG has posted a job opening for a senior account executive for a travel vertical based in Chicago on the job listings site of Mediabistro. The blog suggests that the co plans to build its own online travel site w/ help from Orbitz, which is owned by Cendant (CD). Briefing.com Note: Hearing speculation that GOOG may be planning such a service to rival Expedia (EXPE), as well as Yahoo's (YHOO) relationship with Travelocity. Also of note, CD made a personnel move this morning, hiring former high profile HPQ exec Jeff Clarke as C.E.O. of its Travel Distribution Services division.