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NORWALK, Conn., June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Move over, Big Deal. Priceline.com has a new big man promoting its Express Deals(sm) hotel reservation service in a TV spot that begins airing this week. He's none other than mixed martial arts champion and action-film heavy Oleg "The Russian Bear" Taktarov. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click...

NORWALK, Conn., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Priceline.com Incorporated (NASDAQ: PCLN) ("priceline.com") and KAYAK Software Corporation (NASDAQ: KYAK) ("KAYAK") today announced the successful completion of the acquisition of KAYAK by priceline.com. In accordance with the terms of the transaction as previously announced, KAYAK merged with and into a wholly-owned subsidiary of priceline.com. Priceline.com paid approximately $522.4 million in cash and issued approximately 1,519,717...

NORWALK, Conn., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Priceline Partner Network, a business unit of priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN), today announced a partnership with MapQuest to power its newly launched feature to book travel. MapQuest, the online travel brand, is a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL Inc. The partnership will give travelers access to thousands of hotel, airline and rental car services through the MapQuest ecosystem, including within MapQuest Discover, which aims to help people...

NORWALK, Conn., Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Fourth quarter and full-year 2012 financial results for priceline.com® (Nasdaq: PCLN) will be available after market-close today through a press release posted on the company's Investor Relations website http://ir.priceline.com. The release will not be distributed over newswires. Priceline.com also intends to hold a conference call today at 4:30 p.m. ET to discuss its 4(th) quarter and full-year 2012 financial results. The event will...

NORWALK, Conn., Feb. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Wondering how much this year's Valentine's Day gift cost? Probably less than you think. In a new survey by priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN), 69% of all shoppers admitted to being bargain hunters with their Valentine's Day gifts. They also firmly subscribe to the theory that it's the thought that counts - 71% said they had no intention of letting on how much they saved on their gifts. The survey, conducted the day before Valentine's Day,...

NORWALK, Conn., Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaley Cuoco, star of CBS's "The Big Bang Theory," will join William Shatner in a new priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) ad that will be unveiled during Sunday's pregame show. The ad is the second in a series of spots in which Cuoco plays the daughter of the "Negotiator" character. As the campaign progresses, she shows her hyper-aggressive father how priceline.com's no-bid Express Deals(sm) hotel reservation service is the lighter touch and...

NORWALK, Conn., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced today that Darren Huston, CEO of Booking.com, has been promoted to take on additional responsibility in the management of the Priceline Group's international brands, Booking.com, Agoda and Rentalcars.com. From his position leading Booking.com, his new responsibilities will include oversight of inter-brand relations, including sharing of technology, best practices, customers and supply,...

NORWALK, Conn., Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of priceline.com Incorporated (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced today that it has named Timothy (Tim) Armstrong, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AOL Inc., as priceline.com's newest Director, effective immediately. Mr. Armstrong joined AOL in 2009 from Google, where he served as President of The Americas Operations, overseeing North American and Latin American advertising sales, marketing and operations teams. He also...

NORWALK, Conn., Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For priceline.com's (Nasdaq: PCLN) mobile apps team, the sudden spike in booking activity beginning October 25(th) was almost as telling as the weather reports that something major was about to happen in the northeastern U.S. It was a scenario they'd seen before in 2011, when a freak October snowstorm left many without electricity and a warm place to stay. Hurricane Sandy has just passed over Cuba and was churning toward landfall in the...

NORWALK, Conn., Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In a recent J.D. Power and Associates consumer satisfaction study of travel websites, the Priceline Group's (Nasdaq: PCLN) Booking.com hotel reservation service ranked #1 and priceline.com ranked #3. J.D. Power and Associates' 2012 Independent Travel Website Satisfaction Report was based on responses from 2,009 consumers who made an online purchase from an independent travel website in the past 12 months. The report found that...