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Marriott, Alitrip tie-up to let Chinese travellers book online

November 9, 2015 admin alibaba-group, chinese, clare-baldwin, coming-years, country, julia-fioretti, middle-class, obama, online, online-travel, page-on-monday, said-on-monday

By Clare Baldwin HONG KONG (Reuters) – U.S.-based hotel chain Marriott International Inc and Alibaba Group’s online travel booking platform announced a tie-up on Monday, joining a flurry of rivals expanding their presence in China to cater to the country’s growing upper-middle class. China’s economy is forecast to slow to roughly 6.5 percent growth in coming years, but companies such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Tencent Holdings Ltd promise direct access to the country’s middle class and what Marriott Asia Pacific head Craig Smith is calling a “land grab” for Chinese travellers.

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Booking.com targets China, U.S. growth: CEO

October 9, 2015 creative booking-com, bookings-going, china, darren-huston, dotcom-wipeout, europe, grow-double, industry, online-hotel, online-travel, over-the-past, priceline, priceline-group, through-its

By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – After its rapid ride to dominance in online travel in Europe over the past decade, Booking.com is seeking to expand in China and the U.S., its CEO said in an interview. Darren Huston, who heads both Booking.com and its U.S. parent company Priceline Group, said Booking.com is targeting a 20 percent increase in bookings going through its website in the third quarter and still has years of growth ahead.

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Exclusive: Uber checks connections between hacker and Lyft

October 8, 2015 admin europe, federal-court, joseph-menn, legal-efforts, online-travel, perpetrator, priceline, priceline-group, san

By Dan Levine and Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Eight months after disclosing a major data breach, ride service Uber [UBER.UL] is focusing its legal efforts on learning more about an internet address that it has persuaded a court could lead to identifying the hacker. In February, Uber revealed that as many as 50,000 of its drivers' names and license numbers had been improperly downloaded, and the company filed a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court in an attempt to unmask the perpetrator. Uber's court papers claim that an unidentified person using a Comcast IP address had access to a security key used in the breach.

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Uber, Didi Kuaidi seek to legalize status in China

October 8, 2015 creative alibaba-group, angeles, cities, dashboard, driver, its-operations, online-travel, perpetrator, priceline, san, seen-parked, technologies, the-dashboard, thursday

U.S. firm Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] and Chinese rival Didi Kuaidi are taking steps to operate legally in China, a key market for both firms but where their car hailing services currently operate in a regulatory prey zone

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Expedia shares soar on strong bookings despite strong U.S. dollar

May 1, 2015 creative 44-1-million, cents-per, despite-foreign, earned-more, online-travel, over-the-year, percent-rise, priceline, priceline-group, thomson-reuters, thursday, travel-bookings, travel-sales, united-states

Expedia Inc on Thursday reported first-quarter profit that exceeded analysts’ expectations as it earned more money from travel bookings in and outside the United States, despite foreign currencies falling relative to the U.S. dollar.

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LinkedIn slashes full-year profit forecast

April 30, 2015 admin cents-per, citing-slower, contribution, linked, online-travel, priceline, travel-bookings, travel-sales

LinkedIn Corp slashed its full-year profit forecast, citing slower revenue growth at its hiring business and a delay in recognizing the contribution of lynda.com, the online education company it has agreed to buy.