<story><title>Expedia Acquires Airbnb Rival HomeAway for $3.9B</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/04/expedia-acquires-airbnb-rival-homeaway-for-3-9b/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonwilk</author><text>This is an interesting deal. There was an article posted on HN a while ago that talked about investors pouring money into publicly traded companies who directly compete with private tech companies who have insanely high valuations.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;investors-find-ways-to-indirectly-profit-from-valuable-start-ups.html?hpw&amp;amp;rref=technology&amp;amp;action=click&amp;amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;amp;module=well-region&amp;amp;region=bottom-well&amp;amp;WT.nav=bottom-well&amp;amp;_r=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;investors-find-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;HomeAway Vs AirBnB was specifically mentioned. Turned out well for the guys who made this particular bet.</text></comment>
<story><title>Expedia Acquires Airbnb Rival HomeAway for $3.9B</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/04/expedia-acquires-airbnb-rival-homeaway-for-3-9b/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>damon_c</author><text>Based on a recent experience, Homeaway&amp;#x27;s search for properties available between two dates is pretty much a non-working facade.&lt;p&gt;The UI is all there... but after after entering credit card info etc. and attempting to book several different places, only to then receive emails stating that they were not available on those dates despite showing up in search as being available, and &amp;quot;please call us directly because maybe we have something else...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It felt like shopping for NYC apartments on Craig&amp;#x27;s List...  &amp;quot;we don&amp;#x27;t have the one you want but what about this one?&amp;quot;</text></comment>