Expedia acquires Travelocity in $280M deal
Expedia has acquired online travel agency Travelocity for $280 million in cash.
Expedia has acquired online travel agency Travelocity for $280 million in cash.
Energy tycoon Boone Pickens predicted Friday that oil prices would be back near $70 or $80 a barrel by the fourth quarter of this year.
MasterCard said it would remove a block on transactions made in Cuba using its cards issued in the United States.
Information reported that Google is expected to tap networks of Sprint and T-Mobile, Re/code reports.
In the world of wrestling, there were few figures like Jake "The Snake" Roberts. While the athletes around him tended to have outsized personalities, flashy costumes, and could turn trash talk into a gourmet meal of insults, Jake "The Snake" approached his game from a whole different angle. Where others were outward, he was inward, when others shouted, he almost whispered, and before a fight, if competitors flexed their biceps, Jake "The Snake" used the muscles in his mind to psych out the opposition. Читать дальше...
Law enforcement officials have recovered most of the rare wines stolen from French Laundry restaurant.
Bernard Madoff is insisting he acted alone in his epic fraud, according to new emails from the convicted Ponzi scammer.
The owners of Holloway Cycles in North London are looking to sell up pronto.
Anheuser-Busch InBev is buying Seattle-based Elysian Brewing Company for an undisclosed amount.
Buying European equities may make sense, but they are hardly good value
Church’s tone-deaf move to canonize Serra will drive people away On my walk home from work, I pass three storefront evangelical churches. The women wear long skirts, the men wear boxy suits, the children have clean collars. Some of them were born here, and some of them are immigrants from Mexico or El Salvador or Nicaragua or elsewhere in Latin America, but the crucial point is that they are all from traditionally Catholic cultures, and they’ve all chosen a different church. Or perhaps I should say that I thought about why... Читать дальше...
This weekend, President Barack Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit India twice and the first to be a guest for India's Republic Day. The upcoming meeting comes only four months after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to the White House. Alyssa Ayres, CFR senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, discussed what to expect from the president's visit.
Russian business owners in the United States feel pressure from the ruble's collapse and the country's ongoing downturn.
Twitter is taking its pitch to developers—and attempting to reinvent itself—on the road, with Twitter Flock.
A mother-of-one died two days after eating the four-course meal.
The U.S. distributor of the embargo-blocked weapons may have found a loophole—by making the guns here.
Let us never forget that "Fifty Shades Of Grey" started as "Twilight" fan fiction that somehow snowballed into a massive erotic novel sensation, which is now headed to the big screen from a major studio movie. While everyone waits to get all hot 'n bothered by the kinky romance between a businessman and a college graduate (how daring!) it seems there was some stuff that was just too hot to handle. The "tampon scene," as it's referred to, wasn't even under consideration. “It didn’t make it into the... Читать дальше...
Analysts believe successor likely to stand by current strategy
The former Conservative MP was enraged over tributes to the deceased Saudi king.
Every year, first-time advertisers gamble millions in hopes of scoring big on game day and long afterward, but many come up short.
Retail forex brokers, Microsoft, Total and Swedish jet scandal featured
It isn’t easy taking over a successful business