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Priceline CEO Is Out After Affair, But Should He Be?


Priceline CEO Darren Huston resigned yesterday, after an internal investigation determined that a personal relationship he admitted to having with an employee was “inconsistent with the board's expectations for executive conduct.” Huston is married; at ...

Priceline : Jeffery Boyd devient PDG par interim


Le président-directeur général (PDG) de Priceline Group, Darren Huston, a démissionné, annonce le groupe dans un communiqué publié jeudi 28 avril 2016. Selon Hospitality On, il a pris cette décision en raison d'une liaison avec une employée du groupe.

Priceline CEO resigns after probe into employee relationship


FILE - In this Monday, July 9, 2007, file photo, Darren Huston, president of Microsoft Corp.'s Japan unit, gives business strategy for the new fiscal year at a news conference in Tokyo. On Thursday, April 28, 2016, Priceline said that CEO Huston ...

Priceline CEO resigns over personal relationship with employee


The CEO of Priceline Group Inc., based in Norwalk, Conn., is stepping down after an investigation found his personal relationship with an employee violated the company's code of conduct. By Gerrit De Vynck Bloomberg News April 28, 2016. Online travel ...

Priceline's CEO Is Resigning Over an Improper Relationship With an Employee


The company's old CEO will take over for now. Priceline Group PCLN 0.62% said CEO Darren Huston had resigned, effective immediately, following an investigation related to a personal relationship that he had with an employee who was not under his direct ...

Priceline CEO resigns for being a naughty boy


Priceline ousted Chief Executive Darren Huston after he admitted to having an office fling, company officials announced on Thursday. The Norwalk, Conn., company didn't provide any details beyond saying that Huston fessed up to findings of an internal ...

Priceline CEO resigns after relationship with employee


Online travel giant Priceline Group Inc. said Chief Executive Officer Darren Huston is resigning after an investigation found he had a personal relationship with an employee that violated the company's code of conduct. Huston's resignation is effective ...

Why is Priceline (PCLN) Stock Soaring Today?


On Wednesday, shares of online travel booking company Priceline Group (PCLN - Analyst Report) are soaring almost 11% in late morning trading after the company reported better than expected Q4 fiscal 2015 earnings. Priceline reported earnings of $12.63 ...

Priceline Eases Fears Of Global Travel Slowdown


“It may be a surprise to some, but about two-thirds of our employees are working in either the supply or Customer Service organizations. “The hard work of making this a daily reality is achieved by thousands of dedicated and energetic people around the ...

Priceline Impresses With Earnings and Strong Revenue Guidance


Priceline Group Inc. (NASDAQ: PCLN) reported its fourth-quarter financial results before the markets opened on Wednesday. The company had $12.63 in earnings per share (EPS) on $2.00 billion in revenue, which compares to consensus estimates from ...

Priceline's Scott Case to corporate leaders: Don't lose innovative edge


With a major presidential candidate running openly — and successfully — as a socialist, it is indeed time to talk about the future of capitalism in the United States, experts told a Washington Times Insights Club meeting held recently at the ...

Priceline offer was not valid, so why was it still online?


Q.I recently purchased round-trip tickets from Istanbul to Minneapolis using Priceline. The company confirmed my booking, sent me the itinerary, charged my American Express card and sent me the confirmation. A few hours later, Priceline called and said ...

Hey, this Priceline offer is not valid!


Q: I recently purchased round-trip tickets from Istanbul to Minneapolis using Priceline. The company confirmed my booking, sent me the itinerary, charged my American Express card and sent me the confirmation. A few hours later, Priceline called and ...

Priceline to Boost Stake in Ctrip with $500M Investment


Online travel booking company, Priceline.com (PCLN - Analyst Report) announced that it will increase its stake in China's online travel company, Ctrip.com International, Ltd. (CTRP - Snapshot Report), as part of its efforts to broaden its footprint in ...

Priceline Group Names Christa Quarles as OpenTable CEO


Priceline.com (PCLN - Analyst Report) recently announced the appointment of Christa Quarles as the new CEO of OpenTable. The company acquired this online restaurant reservation provider in June for $2.6 billion. The division was previously headed by ...

Expedia, Priceline Fall as Paris Attacks Seen Hurting Tourism


Online travel-booking sites Priceline Group Inc. and Expedia Inc. fell to their lowest in at least a month amid concerns that Friday's deadly terrorist attacks in Paris could damp European tourism. Priceline shed 4.2 percent to $1243.06 at 10:58 a.m ...

Priceline CEO: Fantastic Q3, Fantastic Travel Season


Priceline Group President and CEO Darren Huston discusses the company's earnings and performance. He speaks on "Bloomberg ‹GO›." (Source: Bloomberg). Most Recent Videos. Intel CFO Smith Says 2015 Ended Strong · Is It Time to Get Into Bank Stocks ...

Priceline increases stakes in China's Ctrip


US travel booking service Priceline has increased stakes in its Chinese equivalent Ctrip to 12.63 percent in a bid to gain greater exposure to China's booming travel market, Ctrip said over the weekend. Priceline bought up to 129,200 American ...

Barclaycard US and Priceline.com extend long-term partnership agreement


WILMINGTON, DEL. - Barclaycard US, the payments business of Barclays in the United States, and priceline.com, a leader in online and mobile travel, have extended their co-branded credit card agreement under which Barclaycard issues the priceline.com ...

TripAdvisor, Inc. (TRIP) Stock | Announces Instant Booking Partnership with Priceline


TripAdvisor, Inc. (TRIP), an online travel company yesterday announced a partnership with The Priceline Group. The partnership will allow brands of The Priceline Group to be able to participate on Trip Advisors instant booking platform.

Why TripAdvisor's stock is surging 22%


Investors are loving TripAdvisor Wednesday, sending the stock soaring 22.6% as of mid-day, all thanks to a deal with Priceline that will integrate a chunk of its hotel inventory into TripAdvisor's new booking platform. The travel review website ...

BBDO Just Won Priceline. Will Shatner Remain Onboard?


Priceline.com, after working with Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners for nearly a decade, has chosen BBDO New York as its newest creative agency. BBDO will handle all of the client's television, digital and social campaigns moving forward, but the future ...

Hotel guest cracks 'Priceline' joke to William Shatner


William Shatner has been spotted in Asia filming an out-there NBC series based on a South Korean hit. Page Six spies said Shatner was shooting “Better Late Than Never” with co-stars George Foreman, Henry Winkler and Terry Bradshaw in the ...

Mindshare Will Now Handle Media in the US and Canada for Priceline's Booking.com


Mindshare went up against Wieden + Kennedy to win Booking.com's media business in the U.S and Canada. The GroupM agency has been tapped to handle media strategy, planning and buying. Measured media spending for Booking.com in the U.S. in 2014 was $91.5 ...

The only US Web company that's figured out China


By partnering with Ctrip, Priceline gets a glimpse into how the online travel industry works there and how best to handle customer support. Huston said Priceline now has "400 Chinese multilingual people sitting in Shanghai helping Chinese people travel ...

The Priceline Group (PCLN) in Focus: Stock Up 5.2%


The Priceline Group Inc. (PCLN - Analyst Report) was a big mover last session, as the company saw its shares rise over 5% on the day. The company's second-quarter profits exceeded expectations on better overseas bookings, which led to solid volume with ...

Silent giant of the travel world is changing how we live


While Wotif offered more domestic properties, Booking.com tapped into Australians' love of overseas travel with a wider offering, and Priceline's smart decisions in terms of technology and Customer Service gave them the edge. The company has three ...

Blooms the Chemist named best pharmacy


Consumer research company Canstar Blue's survey of nearly 3000 Australians has revealed Customer Service is by far the key driver of pharmacy satisfaction, with 31 per cent listing it as the most important factor. Value for money (17 per cent) was a ...

Blooms the Chemist has topped Canstar Blue's customer satisfaction survey ...


“Once they enter a pharmacy, most people look for good Customer Service and advice,” she said. “The price of the products they buy becomes less important, which might also help to explain why so many favour big name brands, even when they believe they ...

Tiger-Backed Hotel Urbano Gets $60 Million Priceline Investment


Hotel Urbano, the Brazilian hotel-booking startup backed by venture capital firms including Tiger Global Management, said it raised $60 million from Priceline Group Inc. The companies also agreed that Booking.com, Priceline's hotel-booking service ...

Priceline.com and AllStar Partener Make Fast Hotel Rooms for Drivers


With the summer road trip season underway and July 4th as one of the most popular holidays for car excursions, OnStar, a provider of connectivity services for Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles, and priceline.com, a leader in online and mobile ...

Look before you book on Priceline


Q: I'm a frequent Priceline user and love its services. But I had a technical issue with the Priceline website bidding that resulted in the booking of a room at an inferior star level and in a section of town I did not select. I recently bid on a room ...

Here Are the 7 Agencies That Priceine Is Considering for Its Creative Account


The travel site is in the midst of a creative review, and after initially participating in the process, Butler, Shine has opted out. The brand spends more than $40 million in media annually, according to Kantar Media. "We feel that focusing on current ...

Mit Booking.com zur Weltherrschaft Priceline - das nächste Monster


Bescheiden im Auftritt, wuchtig im Geschäft: Das Online-Reisebüro Booking.com ist ein wahres Wirtschaftswunder - und Inhaber Priceline ist auf dem Weg zu einer gefährlichen Allmacht. Die Zentrale von Booking.com, hübsch gelegen im Zentrum von ...

Priceline 'Negotiators' Put Creative Up for Review


Ark Advisors in New York is the consultancy hired to run the process. Ark could not immediately be reached, but sources said that the online travel site had already begun to contact agencies. The brand, part of the Priceline Group (which also includes ...

Forget Priceline: Grab These 3 Momentum Stocks Instead


Priceline (PCLN - Analyst Report) has charmed us for a long time, guiding conservatively and consistently beating estimates quarter upon quarter. As a result, investors piled on, sending prices higher and higher. In fact, in the month before its first ...

Priceline Group Inc. (NASDAQ:PCLN) to Acquire PriceMatch, a Hotel-Data ...


The Priceline Group Inc. (NASDAQ:PCLN) has decided to acquire PriceMatch, a hotel-data company. It is one of the biggest and the latest deals for the fastest progressing online booking company. Although the announcement of the proposed acquisition was ...

The Priceline Group Announces the Acquisition of PriceMatch


Today The Priceline Group PCLN, -0.33% announces the acquisition of PriceMatch, a leading cloud-based data and analytics solution for hotels. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Through a system of proprietary algorithms, PriceMatch's intuitive, ...

The Free Website Trap: Lessons From Priceline's Rebranding of Buuteeq | By Vikram Singh


Last year, Priceline.com made a splash when it acquired Buuteeq, a digital marketing and website "cloud-based system" for independent hotels, for what looks like $98 million. My detailed analysis of that purchase made a lot of headlines, and also ...

Amazon Targets Priceline, Expedia With New Hotel Booking Site


In its push to expand beyond an online store for books and merchandise, Amazon.com Inc. is entering the travel-reservations business. The e-commerce retailer Tuesday introduced Amazon Destinations, which provides maps, lodging deals and information ...

Woman gets Priceline refund after infant rents van


She said that they made at least three phone calls to the Customer Service line without getting her $500 bucks back, so she called her local CBS affiliate. A reporter from WCCO called on her and her infant's behalf, and Priceline again cited the small ...

Priceline Agrees To Give Refund After Baby Rents Minivan


But, Customer Service said the fine print says rental cars are nonrefundable. It's what they told WCCO, too when they called. But, after their story aired, Priceline sent an e-mail to WCCO, saying: "We have reviewed the Ellingson's claim and have ...

Priceline will give refund to family for baby's mistake


His parents immediately realized the mistake and tried several times to get a refund, but Customer Service told them the fine print says rental cars are nonrefundable. When television station WCCO called to ask about it, reporters there got the same ...

Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Brocade, IAC, Nabors, Priceline, Teva ...


Stocks were indicated lower on the last day of the first quarter, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 are borderline up-down for the year. With the bull market now six years old, the one trend that has remained static for the past three ...

ECO:nomics: Priceline Founder Gives History Lesson


From the printing press to the silk loom to ancient cuneiform tablets, Priceline Founder Jay Walker reveals artifacts from his Library on the History of the Human Imagination at the ECO:nomics conference in Santa Barbara, Calif. Transcript. This ...

Priceline.com reveals the Top50 Most Popular Spring Break Destinations according to college students


Sixty-seven percent of Americans between the ages of 18 to 24 regretted not taking a last-minute trip in 2014, according to a recent survey from priceline.com, so those on the fence about traveling should not let the opportunity of an unforgettable ...

Priceline Group Names New CEO for priceline.com Division


Priceline Group Inc. (PCLN - Analyst Report) recently announced the appointment of Paul J. Hennessy as the new chief executive officer (CEO) of its priceline.com division. This division was earlier headed by Chris Soder, who will now become the ...

Priceline's acquisition of RocketMiles should have hotels worried | By Pranav Patel


Expedia's recent acquisition of Travelocity and now Orbitz has overshadowed Priceline's tiny acquisition of RocketMiles. While the Expedia deals are certainly cause for concern as further consolidation means two major players control 95% of the OTA ...

Nasdaq Composite Rises for 7th Straight Day as Priceline Soars


The Nasdaq Composite Index rose for a seventh straight day, the longest winning streak in a year, as Priceline Group Inc. led a rally in Internet stocks. Priceline climbed 8.5 percent after posting better-than-estimated fourth-quarter earnings. Wal ...

Priceline Gains as Earnings Top Estimates on Overseas Travel


Although unfavorable exchange rates in recent months have reduced travel from Russia to Europe, and from Europe to the U.S., Priceline Chief Executive Officer Darren Huston said he expected that travel by Americans overseas would help offset such ...

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