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HomeAway, Inc. is a vacation rental marketplace with more than 1,000,000 vacation rental listings in 190 countries, and has 1588 employees.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://seekingalpha.com/article/2326985-why-this-could-be-homeaways-breakout-quarter )〕 It has operated through 40 websites in 22 languages as of December 31, 2014. The company offers the most comprehensive selection of rentals for families and groups to find accommodations such as cabins, condos, castles, villas, barns and farm houses. Founded in February 2005 and headquartered in Austin, the company became publicly traded company in 2011. On November 4, 2015, Expedia, Inc. announced its intention to buy HomeAway. == History == HomeAway, Inc. was founded in 2004 as CEH Holdings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= homeaway inc (AWAY) Details )〕 The company acquired several sites and consolidated them into a single vacation marketplace, launching HomeAway.com in June 2006.〔Austin Business Journal. ( "Live the destination: Local company launches vacation rental Web site" ), ''Austin Business Journal'', June 7, 2006. 〕 Travelers can search HomeAway.com to find a vacation rental for free and homeowners can pay to advertise their property.〔Perkins, Ed. ("What's the Best Way to Arrange a Vacation Rental ), ''Smarter Travel'', April 19, 2010. 〕 The acquisitions that HomeAway has made include: HomeAway moved into its new global headquarters in Austin, Texas on October 2, 2009; it was the first mixed-use project and the second company in Austin to achieve LEED Gold certification for Commercial Interior Design.〔Austin Business Journal.("HomeAway HQ nabs LEED gold rating" ), ''Austin Business Journal'', April 15, 2010. 〕 On November 18, 2009, ''Us Weekly'' magazine announced that HomeAway would reunite actors Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo in a new short film and advertising campaign based on ''National Lampoon’s Vacation'' (a movie). The HomeAway ad represents the company’s first national advertising campaign that debuted during the CBS television network broadcast of Super Bowl XLIV on February 7, 2010.〔US Weekly. ("Exclusive: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo to Reprise Vacation Roles" ), ''US Weekly'', November 18, 2009. 〕 Before going public in mid-2011, HomeAway raised a total of $405 million in venture-capital which was funded by venture capital firms Austin Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Technology Crossover Ventures and Trident Capital.〔Nuttall, Chris. ("HomeAway makes $250m VC round splash" ), ''FinancialTimes.com'', November 11, 2008. 〕 Currently, Homeaway’s valuation is approximately $2.9 billion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://skift.com/2015/03/10/homeaway-ceo-challenges-airbnb-to-do-initial-public-offering/ )〕 Homeaway’s IPO stock closed at $40.21 on Nasdaq, up 48.9% from its IPO price of $27. The stock price has since hovered around $35. On 5 March 2014, the company announced that through an all-cash transaction, it acquired the U.S. mobile application ‘Glad to Have You’ (GLAD).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/125814/homeaway-buys-glad-to-have-you-app )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.homeaway.com/info/media-center/press-releases/2014/homeaway-acquires-glad-to-have-you )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/05/homeaway-acquires-vacation-rental-management-service-glad-to-have-you/ )〕 In 2015, HomeAway invested $4.9 million〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://skift.com/2015/04/02/the-week-in-travel-startup-funding-homeaway-takes-stake-in-canadastays/ )〕 in CanadaStays to increase the number of Canadian properties from less than 10,000 to more than 220,000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2015-04-02/morning-news-airbnb-adds-1-000-new-cuba-listings )〕 The partnership makes HomeAway a minority stakeholder in CanadaStays, who is the largest vacation rental site in Canada and based in Toronto.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/homeaway-expands-north-american-footprint-with-minority-stake-in-canadastays-2015-04-01 )〕 A summary of the company's financial information over the last four years: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HomeAway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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