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31-546: As of February 2021, AIC's membership includes Apple, Facebook, Google, Expedia Group , Amazon , Line , LinkedIn , Rakuten , SAP , Airbnb , Grab , Twitter , Yahoo, Booking.com , and Cloudfare . In November 2020, AIC issued a statement expressing "alarm" at social media rules proposed by the Pakistani government , threatening to leave the Pakistani market if the regulations were passed. In February 2021, AIC issued

62-516: A class-action lawsuit in California accusing the company and its partners of violating trademark rights of numerous independent hotel and motel establishments by running advertising implying that consumers could book reservations for those hotels on Expedia even though Expedia had no relationship with those hotels, in violation of the Lanham Act , and also falsely noting that hotels with which

93-441: A north–south rail line through the area. The train stopped on Grand Boulevard near Gilman and Thorndyke Avenues, spurring further commercial development and the rise of a blue-collar village. In 1891, Seattle annexed Magnolia and Interbay, including Boulevard. By 1894, the post office name had been changed from "Boulevard" to "Interbay", the name that has continued to this day. The railway route through Interbay eventually came under

124-767: A regressive step after years of progress." In June 2021, AIC issued a statement expressing concerns about the proposed anti-doxxing-related changes to data-protection laws in Hong Kong. In a letter to Hong Kong’s Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Jeff Paine, AIC's managing director, suggested that the proposed amendments could mean that Internet firms and their staff based locally in Hong Kong could be subject to criminal investigations and prosecution for doxxing offences by their users, and warned that "the only way to avoid these sanctions for technology companies would be to refrain from investing and offering their services in Hong Kong." Expedia Group Expedia Group, Inc.

155-446: A statement expressing its deep concerns with a proposed cybersecurity bill in the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état . Jeff Paine, AIC's managing director, noted "The military’s proposed bill grants its leaders unprecedented power to censor citizens and violate their privacy, contravening democratic norms and fundamental rights guaranteed under international law. This would significantly undermine freedom of expression and represents

186-627: A street he called Grand Boulevard (present-day West Dravus Street). He farmed, practiced medicine, and wrote. His most famous piece of writing, published in the 1880s, purported to be an English-language rendering of Chief Seattle 's speech on the occasion of an 1854 treaty conference; there is question about the authenticity of the translation. In 1884 the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway (SLSER) purchased all but 50 acres (20 ha) of Smith's 9,600 acres (3,900 ha) in Interbay and built

217-663: Is a miscellany of light industrial, warehouse, wholesale, and retail businesses along 15th Avenue West, as well as a few professional offices and some housing. There continues to be a small shopping and dining neighborhood at West Dravus Street, the former Grand Boulevard. Near the Magnolia Bridge on 15th is the Center for Sex Positive Culture . A bicycle and foot trail comes north from the Central Waterfront by Belltown through Myrtle Edwards Park continues through

248-510: Is an American travel technology company that owns and operates travel fare aggregators and travel metasearch engines , including Expedia , Hotels.com , Vrbo , Travelocity , Hotwire.com , Orbitz , Ebookers, CheapTickets , CarRentals.com, Expedia Cruises , Wotif , and Trivago . Over 3 million lodging facilities and flights on over 500 airlines are bookable on the company's websites. It has 16,500 employees, and its headquarters are located in Seattle , Washington . The word "Expedia"

279-524: Is derived from a combination of "exploration" and "speed". Founded as a division of Microsoft in October 1996, Expedia was spun off into a public company in 1999. IAC , known at the time as USA Networks Inc, acquired a controlling interest in the company in 2001 and acquired the remainder of the company in 2003. In August 2005, IAC spun off the company. In December 2011, Expedia, Inc. spun off TripAdvisor . In 2003, Rich Barton resigned as CEO and

310-504: Is now named. Smith and his wife, mother, and sister began with a claim on Salmon Bay near the present-day Ballard , and steadily acquired more land, extending their holdings south through Interbay to Smith Cove. In particular, the Smiths bought when so many other were selling during the 1855–56 Indian War ( see Battle of Seattle ). Smith established a settlement known as Boulevard roughly halfway between Smith Cove and Salmon Bay, along

341-606: The Dormant Commerce Clause . In a unanimous ruling, the court determined that, while Travelscape does not have physical facilities in South Carolina, frequent sales trips made by its employees and the fact that the company furnished hotel rooms in the state establish its presence for tax purposes and is sufficient to be required to pay sales tax. Interbay, Seattle Interbay is a neighborhood in northwestern Seattle , Washington . It consists of

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372-655: The 1911–1916 construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal along Salmon Bay, about 150 acres (61 ha) of Smith Cove tidelands were filled with material from the dredging. The then (1911) new Port of Seattle built Fishermen's Terminal on Salmon Bay at the north end of Interbay and bought the Great Northern docks and approximately 20 acres (8.1 ha) at Smith's Cove, where they developed two new coal and lumber piers, today's Piers 90 and 91. These developments at either end of Interbay led to

403-530: The BNSF Railway. The Ballard Bridge crosses the ship canal from Interbay to Ballard. Much of Interbay is taken up by BNSF Railway 's Balmer Yard . Interbay is also home to Fishermen's Terminal on Salmon Bay and the Port of Seattle 's Piers 86, 90, and 91 on Smith Cove. Its main thoroughfares are Elliott Avenue W. (northwest- and southeast-bound) and 15th Avenue W. (north- and southbound). It appears that

434-496: The Chief Strategy Officer, Eric Hart, became acting CFO. In February 2020, Expedia announced it was cutting 3,000 jobs, roughly 12% of the workforce, citing a "disappointing 2019." Diller, in his role as acting CEO, stated the company had become "sclerotic and bloated" and that employees were "all life and no work." In April 2020, Peter Kern was appointed as CEO of Expedia Group. He was the highest paid CEO in

465-704: The Magnolia Bridge over the former tideflats and the West Dravus trestle, Interbay is also spanned by a flyover from Nickerson Street at West Emerson Place, just south of Salmon Bay and the Fishermen's Terminal, near the south end of the Ballard Bridge . There is no longer a crossing at Wheeler Street (just south of the Interbay Golf Course). Interbay today remains home to BNSF Railway 's Balmer Yard and related locomotive maintenance shops,

496-695: The Port of Seattle's Fishermen's Terminal on Salmon Bay and Piers 86, 90, and 91 on Smith Cove, and related facilities. It is also home to a Washington Army National Guard armory, Interbay Stadium, the Interbay P-Patch (a large community garden), and the Interbay Golf Course. Five late 19th century houses near Smith Cove, known as the Fourteenth Avenue West Group , have official status as a city landmark . There

527-661: The S&;P 500 in 2021, with $ 296 million in total compensation. In 2015, Expedia announced that it would move its headquarters to the Interbay neighborhood of Seattle , purchasing the Amgen campus on the Elliott Bay waterfront for $ 228.9 million and investing an additional $ 900 million on renovation and expansion of the 41-acre (17 ha) campus to 1.23 million square feet (114,000 m ). The first employees moved into

558-653: The West Garfield Street Bridge, leading to different points in Magnolia to the West. The Wheeler Street Bridge was a complex of four trestles. The Wheeler Street West trestle ran from 15th Avenue West to Thorndyke Avenue West. The Lawton Way trestle intersected that at a diagonal and trestle extensions ran to both 20th Avenue West and Halliday Street on the Magnolia Bluffs. As of 2008, besides

589-455: The area. Nonetheless, University of Washington ethnologist T. T. Waterman lists several native place names at or near Smith Cove and Salmon Bay. The Denny Party saw Interbay's development potential when they explored the area in 1852, but chose to settle farther south. Their settlement became the core of Seattle. Meanwhile, most of Interbay came to be owned by Ohio -born physician and poet Henry A. Smith (1830–1915), after whom Smith's Cove

620-605: The company had no relationship were "sold out". In April 2021, the lawsuit was settled and the company promised not to engage in false advertising. In January 2011, Travelscape, a subsidiary of Expedia Inc. based in the Las Vegas Valley , was ordered to pay $ 6.3 million in back sales taxes to South Carolina by the South Carolina Supreme Court . Travelscape argued that South Carolina's efforts to tax online retailers located out-of-state violate

651-593: The control of James J. Hill and the Great Northern Railway , as did much of at Smith Cove. Hill established a major depot and port at the cove, including Piers 38 and 39 (later renumbered 88 and 89)(now demolished), which were located east of present-day Piers 90 and 91. In 1896 Nippon Yusen Kaisha established the first regular steamship service between Asia and the Pacific Coast of North America, with Smith Cove as its American port. During

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682-552: The increasing industrialization of the area. This maritime trade spurred the rise of companies in Interbay including rope factory Portland Cordage, Rudd Paint Manufacturing, Berquist's Vinegar Works, and the Chicago Junk Company (later Tsubota Steel and Pipe Company). Finns , Poles , Russians , Germans , Austrians , and Scots figured prominently among those who settled and worked in the neighborhood. The Asian trade out of Smith Cove continued until 1934, when

713-533: The new Expedia office complex was completed in 2019. The route of the Link expansion to Ballard will pass along the Interbay corridor. The southern part of Interbay was originally the Smith Cove tideflats. All of Interbay was divided from the 1880s onward by an increasing number of north–south railway lines. This motivated numerous bridges and trestles running east–west across the neighborhood. The first of these

744-640: The new headquarters in October 2019. In 2021, Expedia built a new campus in DLF Cyber Park, Gurugram , India . In July 2015, Expedia made an investment in Wingz . In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic , customers complained regarding the process to get refunds for cancelled flights. Customers complained of excessively long call times and being unable to get through to a representative. This led to many lawsuits. On February 12, 2020, Expedia Group

775-518: The site that trace back to that time, including Quarters A, also known as "The Admiral's House", perched on the SW corner of Magnolia and overlooking piers 90 and 91. The large white painted home is now in private ownership and used as an event space. A proposed modern monorail would have run along 15th Ave NW, but the initiative collapsed in 2005 after eight years of contention. The D Line runs along 15th Ave W, from 2012 to present. A transit center for

806-401: The valley between Queen Anne Hill on the east and Magnolia on the west, plus filled-in areas of Smith Cove and Salmon Bay . The neighborhood is bounded on the north by Salmon Bay, part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal , across which is Ballard ; on the south by what remains of Smith Cove, an inlet of Elliott Bay ; on the east by 15th Avenue W. and Elliott Avenue W.; and on the west by

837-702: The valley between Magnolia and Queen Anne was carved out during the Vashon Stade of the Fraser glaciation (roughly 14,000–17,000 years ago), A thin layer of sand throughout the area may date from a tsunami following an earthquake along the Seattle Fault Zone about 1,000 years ago. Although Interbay fell within the traditional geographic range of the Duwamish , early ethnographers did not record contact-era or earlier Native American villages in

868-613: The violence there accompanying the Maritime Strike of 1934 led to a diversion of this trade to the Port of Los Angeles . During the Great Depression , Interbay was the site of one of Seattle's Hoovervilles . From 1941 into the early 1970s, Smith Cove served as a supply depot for the United States Navy , before returning to use as a civilian port. A few buildings and warehouses can still be found on

899-548: Was at Grand Boulevard (now West Dravus Street). Around 1900 there was both a roadway and a trestle at Grand Boulevard for the Seattle- Fort Lawton street trolley line. The first of several bridges across Smith Cove at Garfield Street Bridge (site of the current Magnolia Bridge ) was built some time between 1910 and 1912. The 23rd Avenue West trestle and the South Shore trestle were both western extensions of

930-553: Was included on a list of companies operating in West Bank settlements involved in activities that "raised particular human rights concerns" published by the United Nations Human Rights Council . The company was categorized under "the provision of services and utilities supporting the maintenance and existence of settlements". In August 2016, Buckeye Tree Lodge and Sequoia Village Inn, LLC filed

961-607: Was replaced by Erik Blachford. In December 2004, Dara Khosrowshahi was announced as CEO. In March 2017, Chelsea Clinton was named to the board of directors of Expedia, with compensation of $ 45,000 a year in cash, plus $ 250,000 a year in stock vesting over three years. In August 2017, Mark Okerstrom became the President and CEO of Expedia, Inc. In December 2019, Mark Okerstrom and Alan Pickerill resigned as CEO and CFO, respectively. At that time, Expedia Group's chairman, Barry Diller, took over day-to-day operations, while

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