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07-22-2008
USA TODAY, - 'Escapes Under $500: A complete family vacation in Lake Tahoe'
Most likely, you'll choose to rent a car to get to and from the airport and to explore the area. When I checked, the cost of a three-day economy car rental at the Reno airport, found on CarRentals.com, came to $130.47 (including taxes and fees), or $65.24 per person if you travel with a companion.
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07-21-2008
CNNMonney.com - 'comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for June 2008'
RESTON, Va., July 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at the top online properties for June 2008 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service...The online car rental category was the top-gaining in June, growing 4 percent to 6.5 million visitors. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company led the category with 3.4 million visitors, followed by Avis Budget Group with 2.6 million visitors. Significant gainers in the category included Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc. (up 39 percent to 1.1 million visitors), CarRentals.com (up 42 percent to 892,000 visitors), and Advantage.com (up 39 percent to 214,000 visitors).
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07-21-2008
The ClickZ Network - 'Travel Ad Report: Which Brands Rule When It's Time to Relax?'
Other endemic travel advertisers like car rental firms were barely represented in either top advertiser list. Only CarRentals.com -- the clear leader in the duration before July 4 with over 85 percent share of voice -- made that period's list; none were in the Memorial Day top 10 list.
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07-20-2008
baltimoresun.com - 'Car rental firms get creative'
Use the Internet to shop around for the rental company offering the best rate. Newer car rental aggregation sites, such as RentalCarMomma.com and CarRentals.com, offer coupons and help you compare prices.
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07-05-2006
NY Daily News - 'Cut Car Rental Costs'
Search local newspapers and such Web sites as carrentals.com and carrentalexpress.com to find these second- or third-tier players. For example, companies like Advantage Rent-a-Car and E-Z Rent-a-Car cater to leisure travelers. They don't necessarily provide all the bells and whistles of a Hertz, but many find they don't need them anyway.
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08-04-2005
Travel Weekly - 'CarRentals.com creates res site for Web-enabled mobile devices'
CarRentals.com, an online car rental firm, launched a Web site specifically to aid customers looking to reserve rental cars by using such mobile devices as cell phones, smartphones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) that have Internet browsers.
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08-03-2005
TechWeb - 'CarRentals.com Launches Mobile Service'
CarRentals.com on Wednesday launched a mobile service that enables travelers to use their browser-equipped cellular phones or handheld computers to compare prices from multiple vendors and make reservations.
Travelers accessing the New York-based company's web site with a cellular phone or handheld device will automatically be sent to a new site designed for the smaller screen size. From that location, they can check prices and a reserve a vehicle from any one of a variety of car rental companies, which include Avis, Budget and Enterprise.
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07-31-2005
Washington Post - 'New Car Rental Options'
Smart phone and PDA users can now use those devices to comparison shop and book car rentals.
Last week CarRentals.com , a search engine for booking car rentals, added new technology that recognizes a smart phone or a personal digital assistant and automatically redirects users to a page that has been simplified and made to fit a small screen. Although smart phones and PDAs provide wireless access to the Internet, they usually cannot access content on travel sites, said CarRentals spokesman David Morton, because the information doesn't fit on a small screen and complicated graphics stupefy the devices.
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