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Flightcaster (YC S09) Wins the Amazon Payments Prize (amazon.com)
50 points by leelin on Jan 21, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


http://aws.amazon.com/startupchallenge/ has some more info on the finalists


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Did you use Flightcaster or Farecast (now Bing travel)?

I thought FlightCaster was about predicting flight delays, not ticket prices.


Whoa, you are correct of course. I tend to get those two mixed up. The original comment was not about Flightcaster at all, so I deleted it. I suppose there is a lesson in here somewhere about brandname uniqueness. Regardless, congrats to Flightcaster!


What is their "proposed use of Amazon Payments solutions"? I was under the impression that the only money they have coming in right now is from the iphone/blackberry app.


FTA: "FlightCaster will be creating an alternative flight recommendation engine and the ability to re-book a flight with a single click from a smart-phone. They will offer Amazon Payments as a payment method to enable their customers to purchase tickets conveniently from any mobile device."




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