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With discomfort, Priceline expects Google, Bing to cozy up to travelers

By Dennis Schaal | February 22, 2010

Priceline expects Google, with its Google City Tours product, and Microsoft, with Bing Travel, to make a more-direct play for travel consumers. 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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What is it about Ryanair and its white label partnerships?

By Kevin May | February 16, 2010

Reports today suggesting Ryanair has settled out of court with Expedia over their ill-fated partnership has thrown the spotlight once again on the airline's white label deals. Read More

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New Priceline iPhone app makes point with electronic compass

By Dennis Schaal | January 25, 2010

Priceline made available a new, free iPhone app, Hotel Negotiator Version 2.0, which uses the iPhone 3G's electronic compass functionality. With Hotel Radar, the name Priceline gives to the main... Read More

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Dateline New Zealand – BookIt acquisition by Trade Me is latest in huge war over very small turf

By Tim Hughes | January 14, 2010

Let me take you down under. All the way down under to the online travel market in New Zealand. With a population of only 4.23 million (123rd in the world), NZ punches above its weight in a number of... Read More

Crouching Tiger move aside - Roaming Gnome vs The Negotiator vs Rooms101

By Kevin May | December 24, 2009

Say what you like about "promotional vacations" - trips where you have to sit and listen to a sales pitch - Rooms101 deserves a pat on the back for a rather amusing promotional clip. Using that well... Read More

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Consumers, OTAs deal with car inventory gone missing

By Dennis Schaal | November 10, 2009

I was thinking that a common subtext in the online travel agencies' discussions about their third-quarter financial results was the pressures on the car rental [or car hire, to some] industry. Major car... Read More

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Priceline stealing share, planting seeds

By Dennis Schaal | November 10, 2009

Priceline.com recorded another three months of impressive financial results in the third quarter as it stole market share in hotels, with global room nights rising 56.3 percent, fueled by what the... Read More

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Priceline dabbles in behavior modification with iPhone app

By Dennis Schaal | October 28, 2009

Priceline introduced a free Hotel Negotiator app for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch that enables you to bid for and book a Name-Your-Own Price hotel room up to 11 p.m. ET on the evening of your... Read More

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What is expected to happen to online agency booking numbers up to 2013?

By Kevin May | October 27, 2009

There is an interesting chart flying around the web today regarding US online travel agencies. Posted initially on the Business Insider, the chart is from consultancy and investment house Barclays... Read More

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