Priceline

Millions of Americans Dial Up Travel Plans From the Phone

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 17 at 2:43 pm PT

While total spending on online travel continues to grow, it is the mobile travel market that has everyone excited.

ScoreBig Uses Priceline’s Model to Name Your Own Price for Live Events

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 16 at 8:58 am PT

Here’s a little secret that sports teams and music venues don’t want you to know: They are quietly unloading tons of tickets online for up to 60 percent off. And, now there’s an app for that.

Google, Amazon Are Potential Buyers for Deal Site Travelzoo

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 11 at 2:17 pm PT

Travelzoo’s stock soared by nearly 30 percent today on news that the 14-year-old deals site is planning to sell itself.

Priceline’s Booking.com Enters Last-Minute Deals Race

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 10 at 11:19 am PT

Priceline has joined the masses in publishing a mobile app that offers last-minute hotel deals, but is it really providing any huge discounts?

You’re Dead, Jim: Priceline Kills Off Shatner’s “Negotiator”

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 23 at 2:11 pm PT

Priceline is retiring William Shatner’s role as a celebrity spokesman after 14 years as it moves to turn consumer attention to its fixed-price hotel inventory.

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Six Major Hotel Companies Launch a Hotel Search Engine Called Room Key

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 11 at 4:15 pm PT

Here’s something novel: A new hotel search engine founded by companies that own hotels. The joint venture, called Room Key, is an effort to gain independence from some of the large online aggregators, like Priceline and Expedia or even Google. Room Key was founded by Choice Hotels, Hilton, Hyatt, InterContinental Hotels, Marriott and Wyndham Hotel, and acquired its technology from hotelicopter in an asset deal last year.

TripAdvisor CEO Says Wall Street Underestimates Its Value Now That It’s Flying Solo

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 9 at 6:00 am PT

TripAdvisor’s co-founder and CEO Stephen Kaufer talks to AllThingsD about the media company’s prospects for growth now that it has broken off from Expedia and is an independently traded company.

Expedia Takes Stock as TripAdvisor Gets Ready to Fly the Coop

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 9, 2011 at 9:44 am PT

Now that Expedia’s spinoff of TripAdvisor is imminent, the hard work begins to give investors a reason to stick with the online travel agency once its high-flying media business is gone.

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O.co Partners With Priceline to Relaunch Shuttered Travel Site

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 6, 2011 at 3:28 pm PT

O.co, the Salt Lake City-based company also known as Overstock.com, has partnered with Priceline.com’s partner network to provide deals on hotels, flights and car rentals. The retailer’s foray into travel is its second. In March, it launched a vacations tab, but put it on hold a few months later after a third-party relationship did not work out. The new site, called O.co Travel, will offer Priceline’s “Name Your Own Price” feature.