Skyscanner CEO discusses why he just sold his company for $1.7 billion

FEATURE: Big news merged from M&A land earlier this morning, when travel search giant Skyscanner revealed it had been acquired by one of China’s biggest online travel companies, Ctrip, in a deal worth £1.4 billion (USD$1.74 billion).
Founded out of Edinburgh, Scotland in 2003, Skyscanner is one of the world’s largest travel search engines by traffic, with 50 million monthly users. It has also been an entirely independent company, unlike fellow travel search giants such as K