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Boom time for online travel in Japan

By Siew Hoon Yeoh | June 4, 2012

First the good news. Online travel is the standout trend not only in Japan but across Asia. Read More

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How many hotels in the world are there anyway? Booking.com keeps adding them

By Dennis Schaal | March 26, 2012

Booking.com says it offers 202,842 hotels globally and a new report says the Priceline Group -- Booking.com, Agoda and Priceline.com -- collectively is adding properties at a quickening pace. Read More

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Priceline loves hotels and cars, but business travel no so much

By Dennis Schaal | February 27, 2012

With gross bookings and hotel room nights up more than 50% each in the fourth quarter, Priceline says its Booking.com, Agoda and Priceline.com brands all gained hotel market share. Read More

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Booking.com and Expedia battle for travel agents in Rooms and More

By Dennis Schaal | January 18, 2012

Booking.com and Expedia do battle for hotel share around the globe, and they and about 10 other aggregators are upping the competition as they compete for travel agency bookings in the new Travelport... Read More

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Agoda lurks behind TripAdvisor - Top New Zealand websites, December 3 2011

By PhocusWire | December 8, 2011

Watch out TripAdvisor, here comes Agoda, nestling beneath its top spot with just a 0.5% gap in market share in the leading travel websites in New Zealand. Read More

Global hotel competition heats up as Agoda gets another airline partner in Air China

By Dennis Schaal | August 31, 2011

Priceline's Agoda hotel business partnered with Air China, extending Agoda's distribution reach in China, other Asia-Pacific countries and beyond. Read More

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Priceline to continue testing and expanding local deals

By Dennis Schaal | August 4, 2011

Priceline's hotel and car rental business grew substantially in the second quarter, and the company also is pondering local deals as a new revenue stream. Read More

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Agoda debuts iPhone app with lots of Asia hotels

By Dennis Schaal | July 15, 2011

Priceline's Agoda unit released a free iPhone app featuring 18,000 properties in Asia alone, along with user reviews , maps and decriptions of facilities at the hotel. Read More

Amadeus expands hotel choices with prepaid vouchers

By Dennis Schaal | July 14, 2011

Group-buying sites such as Groupon offer prepaid vouchers and now Amadeus is building up its hotel offerings with prepaid vouchers, as well. Read More

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Expedia-Priceline competition heightens with Agoda-Jetstar partnership

By Dennis Schaal | June 10, 2011

Priceline's Agoda business partnered with Jetstar Airways, signaling heightening competition between the two global online travel agencies in Asia-Pacific. Read More

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Priceline takes search lead over rivals in new global markets

By Dennis Schaal | October 8, 2010

Priceline global brands such as Agoda and Booking.com are eclipsing their rivals from the Expedia and Orbitz camps around the world when it comes to a presence in paid-search. Read More

Priceline on mobile apps, branding, Google-ITA, TripAdvisor

By Dennis Schaal | September 7, 2010

Do Priceline's bookings from its mobile apps cannibalize its website business or are they incremental? Read More

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Priceline CEO on metasearch swan song, private sales, Expedia, Asia strategy

By Dennis Schaal | February 24, 2010

Priceline CEO Jeffery Boyd thinks metasearch's best days are behind it, argues that Jetsetter's private, members-only hotel sales will forever remain a niche endeavor, and rules out relaunching a... Read More

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For Priceline, Booking.com, Agoda -- it's a sharing and marketshare thing

By Dennis Schaal | February 18, 2010

Priceline continued its torrid growth, particularly internationally, in the fourth quarter and increasingly is sharing hotel inventory across its brands. Read More

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