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NEW YORK (AP) - Most online travel stocks fell Monday after an analyst lowered his price targets for Expedia Inc., Orbitz Worldwide Inc. and Priceline.com Inc., citing weakening European leisure travel trends and rising search ad competition.
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via Canadian Business Magazine @ 19:20 30th Jun
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NEW YORK (AP) - Online travel stocks traded mixed Monday, with shares of Priceline.com Inc. rising after an analyst upgraded the stock but shares of rival Orbitz Worldwide Inc. sinking following bearish analyst commentary.
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via Canadian Business Magazine @ 21:19 28th Jul
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snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister raises questions regarding the transforming nature of the Web now that Tim Berners-Lee's early vision has been supplanted by today's much more complex model. AJAX, Google Web Toolkit, Flash and Silverlight all have McAllister asking, 'Is [the Web] still the Web if you can't navigate directly to specific content? Is it still the Web if the content can't be indexed and searched? Is it still the Web if you can only view the application on certain clients or devices? Is it still the Web if you can't view source?' Such questions bely a much bigger question for Web developers, McAllister writes. If today's RIAs no longer resemble the 'Web,' then should we be shoehorning these apps into the Web's infrastructure, or is the problem that the client platforms simply aren't evolving fast enough to meet
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via Slashdot @ 19:13 3rd Jul
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Priceline.com Includes Potential Hurricane Season Destinations In New Sunshine Guaranteed Vacation Packages Promotion for Fall 2008 Get a Full Refund for Airfare, Hotel, Rental Car & More If Rain Ruins Your Vacation NORWALK, Conn.--(Business Wire)-- Travelers who missed their first chance to book a Priceline Sunshine Guaranteed vacation package now have another opportunity. Today, priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) www.priceline.com announced a new Sunshine Guaranteed promotion for late Summer/Fall 2008 that will refund customers if rain ruins their vacation. "We were pleased by the positive customer response this summer to our Sunshine Guaranteed vacation packages, and we have decided to offer them again for late summer and fall travel," said Tom Trotta, priceline.
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via Reuters @ 10:08 4th Aug
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NORWALK, Conn.--(Business Wire)-- Priceline.com Inc. (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced today that it has signed a long-term lease and is moving forward with plans to establish a new customer contact center in Wyoming, MI, which is located southwest of Grand Rapids. Represented by celebrity spokesman William Shatner, priceline.com www.priceline.com is a leading global online travel service, launched in 1998. In 2007, priceline.com generated $4.8 billion in gross travel bookings. Priceline.com said its new Michigan call center, which will occupy 45,670 square feet of an existing office building, will provide support for customers who make hotel reservations through Booking.com, priceline.com's international business unit. Priceline.com believes that Booking.
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via Reuters @ 20:46 6th Aug
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NORWALK, Conn.--(Business Wire)-- Priceline.com(R) (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its 2nd quarter 2008 financial results on August 5, 2008, at 4:30 p.m. ET. The event will be webcast live and the audio will be available for seven days thereafter at www.priceline.com in the Investor Relations Section. About Priceline.com(R) Incorporated Priceline.com Incorporated (Nasdaq: PCLN) www.priceline.com provides online travel services in 21 languages in over 60 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Included in the priceline.com family of companies is Booking.com, a leading international online hotel reservation service, priceline.com, a leading U.S. online travel service for value-conscious leisure travelers, and Agoda.
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via Reuters @ 12:07 17th Jul
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BT today became a founding sponsor of the Web Science Research Initiative, an international body established to promote the science and development of the World Wide Web. Established by British Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, with co-directors Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall and Danny Weitzner, the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) exists to promote the study of Web Science', a new academic discipline focusing on the analysis, engineering and social impact of the World Wide Web.
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via Macro World Investor @ 12:06 7th Jul
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Priceline.com has announced a new Sunshine Guaranteed promotion for late summer and fall 2008 that will refund customers if rain ruins their vacation. Under the Fall 2008 Sunshine Guaranteed promotion, customers who book a vacation package to any one of over 100 qualifying destinations in the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean and Europe between Aug. 4 and Sept.12, 2008 and travel between Aug.16 and Nov. 16 will be eligible for a refund if their vacation is rained out. There is no additional charge to book a Sunshine Guaranteed vacation package. Qualifying vacation packages must be 3-8 days in length. Travel must commence at least 12 days after a package is purchased. If it rains more than 0.50 inches per day on half or more of the days of a Sunshine Guaranteed vacation (including travel days), priceline.
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via Modern Agent Online @ 9:16 5th Aug
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Priceline's Asian Travel Experts Offer Tips For Attending The 2008 Summer Olympics In Beijing What to see and do in Beijing - and how to find the most reasonably priced hotel rooms NORWALK, Conn. & BANGKOK, Thailand--(Business Wire)-- There's sure to be plenty of excitement at the events surrounding the August 8-24, 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. But visitors to the Games should also allow time to explore Beijing and all it has to offer, according to Michael Kenny, Chief Executive Officer of Agoda.com, priceline.com's (Nasdaq: PCLN) Asian online hotel reservation service. Olympics-goers can still find Beijing hotel rooms on priceline.com www.priceline.com or, for an even wider selection, they can try Agoda www.agoda.com. Hotel rates are running a wide gamut from $127 a night at the Days Inn Forbidden City to $1,019 at the 5-star Jianguo
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via Reuters @ 14:02 14th Jul
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For over 10 years EyeforTravel’s Travel Distribution Summit has featured senior speakers from hotels, airline and online agencies. This year, we have brought together leading executives from America’s biggest online travel agencies to speak on today’s fundamental issues in online travel: Innovative sales and marketing techniques, the role of traditional online intermediaries and crucially, how to ride out the current economic downturn.
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via WiredHotelier.com @ 8:31 13th Aug
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Las Vegas, NV – August 2008 – For over 10 years EyeforTravel’s Travel Distribution Summit has featured senior speakers from hotels, airline and online agencies. This year, we have brought together leading executives from America’s biggest online travel agencies to speak on today’s fundamental issues in online travel: Innovative sales and marketing techniques, the role of traditional online intermediaries and crucially, how to ride out the current economic downturn.
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via Hospitality First @ 10:53 14th Aug
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NEW YORK, Jul 01, 2008 (Thomson Financial via COMTEX) -- PCLN | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Shares of Priceline.com fell Monday after Citigroup lowered its price target on the company to $142 from $161, citing potential weakness in the company's European division.
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via TradingMarkets @ 19:20 30th Jun
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Gross travel bookings increase 71% year over year; International gross travel bookings grow 80%, Domestic gross travel bookings grow 59% NORWALK, Conn.--(Business Wire)-- Priceline.com Incorporated(R) (Nasdaq: PCLN) today reported its financial results for the 2nd quarter 2008. Gross travel bookings for the 2nd quarter, which refers to the total dollar value, inclusive of all taxes and fees, of all travel services purchased by consumers, rose 70.9% year-over-year to $2.1 billion. Priceline.com had GAAP revenues in the 2nd quarter of $514.0 million, a 44.4% increase over a year ago. The Company's international operations contributed revenues in the 2nd quarter of $164.5 million, an 82.0% increase versus a year ago. GAAP gross profit for the 2nd quarter was $253.
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via Reuters @ 16:37 5th Aug
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Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Trident Microsystems, Inc., Sony, American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc., D.R. Horton, Inc. and Cache, Inc. www.profits.zacks.com/ CHICAGO--(Business Wire)-- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Trident Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRID), Sony (NYSE: SNE), American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc (NYSE: AXL), D.R. Horton, Inc. (NYSE: DHI) and Cache, Inc. (NASDAQ: CACH). Get the most recent insight from Zacks Equity Research with the free Profit from the Pros newsletter: at.zacks.com/?id=4579 Here are highlights from Wednesday's Analyst Blog: Trident Micro Pressured in Asia Trident Microsystems, Inc.
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via Reuters @ 7:09 31st Jul
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Joanie Ogg, CTC, MCC reportedly has left Travel Counsellors USA, where she was senior vice president, global and industry sales of the UK-based Host agency Travel Counsellors USA. Ogg had no comment. The founder and long-time president of NACTA (National Association of Commissioned Travel Agents), Ogg joined Travel Counsellors in April. Travel Counsellors USA, with its US headquarters in Saddle Brook, NJ, lists Darya Camacci, senior vice president, operations, and Kim Sherrett, recruitment manager, as travel agent contacts in its listing published in Travel Trade's 2008/2009 Co-Op/Host Agency Desktop Reference, the industry's authoritative resource for agency marketing groups and Host agencies. The 2008/2009 Co-Op/Host Agency Desktop Reference is being distributed in its print edition with the Aug.
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via Travel Trade @ 21:01 1st Aug
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I recently attended the first-ever Linked Data Planet conference, where a number of pioneers in the field of Semantic Web shared their perspectives on the state of the art — and business — of helping the world tag their web pages for meaning. So what is the Semantic Web and how is it different from the web of today? On the web, most search engines today use key words and the number of links to a page to determine the relevance of search results. This is the wisdom of crowds at work: If the key words you are searching for occur often on that page, and the page is popular (i.e. lots of links to it), then it is probably the best bet for what you are searching for. The downside of this approach is that it infers meaning of the page. On the Semantic Web, the crowds get wiser thanks to the wisdom of authors, who can let the crowds know —
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via XML.org @ 6:22 22nd Jul
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via Articles Bridge @ 11:41 20th Jun
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via Articles Bridge @ 8:30 23rd Jun
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51% of executives at small and mid-sized online businesses say their employees use the web to research most offline purchases, according to a survey by research and consulting firm JupiterResearch LLC. They rely heavily on search engines and retailer and manufacturer web sites, and use the web to shop for the best price and to compare products and services, the survey shows.
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via InternetRetailer.com @ 13:30 28th Jun
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CHICAGO - (Business Wire) Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM), Priceline.com Inc. (Nasdaq: PCLN), Acergy S.A. (Nasdaq: ACGY), Genentech, Inc. (NYSE: DNA) and Infosys Technologies, Ltd. (Nasdaq: INFY).
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via Earthtimes.org @ 10:18 17th Jul
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Job.travel, the premium employment site for the travel and hospitality industry, announces free job and resume postings. For a limited time only, job.travel is extending an invitation to all in the travel and tourism industry to take advantage of a new, efficient job site for effectively matching qualified job seekers with employers. This targeted site provides the ability to quickly search candidates and job opportunities from handheld, mobile devices or desktop computers. As an easy-to-use tool for on-the-go individuals, job.travel offers mobile text and e-mail alerts when candidates and jobs match. These alerts provide access to "snapshots" to get a quick view of both candidates and job opportunities.
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via PR Newswire @ 18:16 12th Aug
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NEW YORK, NY -- 08/18/08 -- iPerceptions Inc. (TSX-V: IPE), a leading provider of web-focused Voice of Customer analytics, announced today that customer satisfaction with automotive and travel web sites hit a 12-month low in June 2008 as prices at the pump climbed to over $4.11 per gallon nationwide. According to the iPerceptions Satisfaction Index (iPSI), customer satisfaction declined from 7.54 to 7.30 on a 10-point scale between June 2007 and June 2008. Customer dissatisfaction was also pronounced on travel web sites, where satisfaction levels fell from 7.12 to 7.00 in the past 6 months.
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via Earthtimes.org @ 14:48 18th Aug
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Hotel announcement follows booking fee elimination for airline tickets NORWALK, Conn.--(Business Wire)-- Following up on its elimination of all booking fees on published-price domestic and international airfares, priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced today that it has decided to implement three new fee chops on its published-price hotel reservation service. The moves, which will lower bottom-line prices for hotel rooms reserved through priceline.com, take effect immediately. "The fee chops announced today are expected to put millions of dollars of savings back into our hotel customers' pockets, as we have already done with our elimination of booking fees on published-price airline tickets," said Tim Gordon, priceline.com's Senior Vice President, Hotels.
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via Reuters @ 13:24 1st Jul
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