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Travel site Priceline finds a way to monitor its wide world of applications

Like many e-commerce companies, Priceline.com draws on distributed applications, both on its own servers and its partners. It has turned to a product from AppDynamics designed to monitor apps wherever they lie.

Posted 02/26/2010Paul DemeryPost a comment

/ Marketing

Priceline.com, Ramada.com agree to make sites friendlier to blind users

In a move that could serve as a harbinger to retail web sites, Priceline.com and Ramada.com have reached an agreement with the New York State Attorney General to make their sites more usable by blind and other visually impaired consumers.

Posted 08/25/2004Paul DemeryPost a comment

Online Shopping: It's A Gas Gas Gas

Priceline WebHouse Club, a licensed affiliate of priceline.com, will launch a new service that allows drivers "name their own price" for up to 50 gallons of gasoline a month. After locking in their price, drivers can get their gasoline at local major-brand stations selected by Priceline WebHouse Club. The service will be offered nationwide starting on May 20, says Stamford, Conn.-based priceline. With Priceline for Gasoline, drivers are promised...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

/ E-Retailers

Priceline expects to fail analysts' estimates

Priceline.com said today it anticipates third quarter 2000 revenues will be below the range of analysts' estimates for the company. Priceline said it expects third quarter revenues would be $340 million to $345 million, compared to analysts' estimates of $360 million to $380 million. By comparison, 3rd quarter 1999 revenue was $152.2 million. Revenues will be below the company's expectations due to a shortfall in revenue from the sale of airline...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

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More bad news for Priceline

Meanwhile, hard on the heels of the WebHouse announcement, priceline announced that Perfect Yardsale Inc., another separate priceline.com licensee that offered used merchandise to consumers on the priceline.com web site, has ceased operations. Perfect Yardsale, in operation for less than a year, has a small base of business. Between WebHouse and Perfect Yardsale, Priceline received $4.3 million in the 2nd quarter of this year. Priceline says it...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

Priceline stocks up on groceries

Priceline's WebHouse Club has added 120 Key Food Stores to its "name your price" grocery service. The WebHouse Club allows customers to shop the lowest price for hundreds of grocery items. Members choose from more than 140 categories representing more than 600 national brands. After naming their price, customers can pick up their items at their choice of more than 1,000 participating stores in the New York metro area including New York, New...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

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NextCard's Top 30 e-retailers for September

NextCard today released the NextCard eCommerce Index for September, a barometer of monthly online consumer spending. "Traditional retailers made a strong showing last month, as evidenced by the 152% and 76% growth by RadioShack.com and SharperImage.com, respectively," said Lisa Subramanian, vice president, e-commerce, NextCard. "Consumers gravitated online to buy popular Sharper Image products, such as the Razor scooter." In addition,...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

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Priceline WebHouse Club closes

The Priceline WebHouse Club, a privately-held licensee of priceline.com, which enables consumers to name their own price for gasoline and groceries is shutting down. The company says it will undertake the closing "on an orderly basis over the next 90 days." The WebHouse Club said that all customers with unredeemed gas and groceries would receive a full refund of any prepaid amount, plus extra money to cover the estimated savings they were...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment