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Kayak buys SideStep: Travel web shakeup
Today's big acquisition? Travel site Kayak is reportedly paying $200 million for SideStep. Both companies have web sites that do pretty much the same thing: let you find cheap airline tickets by searching multiple airlines for deals.
VentureBeat reports that Kayak will maintain two separate sites at Kayak.com and SideStep.com, but that SideStep will begin to use Kayak's search technology. What does that mean for people looking for cheap plane tickets, hotels, or rental cars? We're not really sure. While we tend to check out several online travel sites each time we travel we're not really convinced that one has a better track record than another of providing the best deals.
What's your favorite online travel site, and why? Let us know in the comments.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
