Farecast launched this summer with a witty name and a clever premise: Using data mining and a huge library of historical prices, it would be able to predict a rise and fall in airfares. By telling you ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Seattle based airfare prediction service Farecast is testing what the company calls its first retail product beyond basic price forecasts; the company is now offering to lock in ticket prices against ...

Farecast, the Seattle-based travel price prediction service, becomes part of Microsoft’s Bing Travel Wednesday when the company launches its new Bing.com search engine incorporating content previously ...

Rumors about the acquisition of Farecast are accurate – in a very brief blog post CEO Hugh Crean says they’ve been acquired by Microsoft. SeattlePI, which first broke the rumor last week, says the ...

Farecast, the start-up that predicts whether airfares are about to go up or down (earlier coverage here), has expanded predictions for 20 more airport destinations, bringing the total to 75 airports.

Farecast, the airfare price prediction site, has expanded its coverage and price prediction tools to a new beta service for hotels. For the launch the new hotel price predictions work in the top 30 ...

One of our favorite sites, the airfare prediction site Farecast, is spreading its wings today and launching a beta pricing service for hotels as well. The service works for the top 30 U.S. travel ...

REDMOND, Wash. — July 17, 2007 — MSN® and Farecast.com, the airfare prediction Web site, announced an agreement today in which MSN will offer its users free airfare predictions and planning tools on ...

Farecast has landed $12.1 million that the Seattle online travel startup will use to roll out its airfare predictions for international destinations and expand into new travel categories such as ...