Topic: Orbitz Worldwide Inc.

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Chatter

Self-Serving SurveysREAD»

Orbitz: Secretly Advertising Gay Rights?

Can you find the very subtle cues in their new, widely-aired commercial?READ»

5 Discount Travel Secrets Orbitz, Travelocity, and Expedia Don't Want You to Know

5 Travel Secrets... if you want to hold onto more of your cashREAD»

When Managed Travel Isn't

Does your company's managed travel program go places? Or is it a lemon?READ»

Think Ahead: Jeffrey Katz

A dispatch from PC Forum 2001.READ»

Fast Talk: One Shrewd Move

It's easy to look smart when times are good. What separates winners from losers are the moves their leaders make when times are hard. Six CEOs explain their shrewdest move of 2002.READ»

Book Smart

Booking your own business travel doesn't have to be a headache.READ»

Ticket to Fly

Fodder for a Transit Authority article, perhaps, but I just came across a useful online tool that could help shave quite a bit off of your T&E's. Currently in beta, Mobissimo is an airfare search engine that scours 60 airlines and ...READ»

Can These Two Companies Fly Higher?

The CEOs of Travelocity.com and Expedia face off on questions about commissions, travel during the downturn, and the looming threat of Orbitz.READ»

Work/Life: Orbitz Poll Says No to Inflight Internet

A recent Orbitz poll says business travelers "don't feel the need or desire to be connected at 30,000 feet." But don't count me among the nearly six in 10 who prefers to keep the air up there a refuge from the ...READ»

8 Million Pieces of Paper to One!

I am an amazing organized person except for when I travel. For some reason, I carry 20 different sheets. Flight info, hotel info, googled directions, etc…. Even worse with the 10 emails shared with my wife and assistant with all ...READ»

Ad Execs On a Burning Bridge

Just the other day, new marketing materials for Mullen, the ad shop for brands like Orbitz, Lending Tree, and TJ Maxx, landed soberly on my desk: "Marketing in the new era of fiscal responsbility; Have we been on an adolescent ...READ»

Be a Publicity Glutton! (Film at 11)

Two brothers are building bulging bellies into a burgeoning brand.READ»

From 8 million pieces of paper to one

I am an amazing organized person except for when I travel. For some reason, I carry 20 different sheets. Flight info, hotel info, googled directions, etc…. Even worse with the 10 emails shared with my wife and assistant with all my ...READ»

Framing a Travel Strategy

Travel policies aren't designed just to keep costs down. You also need to consider your team's needs, the system's ease of use, and convenient locations and schedules.READ»

Up The Creek

The big problem with booking travel online is the gnawing sense that you've left a great deal on the table. If you'd just gone to one more site....READ»

Capitalism, Meet Globalism

Capitalism has met the enemy, and it is capitalism. Just ask the pharmaceutical industry.READ»

Worker, Interrupted: The Cost of Task Switching

Fast Interview: When is interruption is helpful? Why can't most of us stay on task for more than three minutes? Is the best way to achieve flow to just unplug? Gloria Mark, Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, has some answers.READ»

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Beware Of Big Cable

I have to comment quickly on an article the Wall Street Journal ran last week titled "Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web." The article points to a shift in the views of politicians and corporations (including both Google and ...READ»

Microsoft Launches Bing Travel Search, We Take It For a Ride

This week has been all about Microsoft's Bing, the company's rival to Google. And now that its travel engine is live too, ready to help you globe-trot, we've taken it for a very quick spin for you. Bing Travel may just be ...READ»

The Success of Kayak.com

Steve Hafner has built Kayak into the most popular Web 2.0 travel site. How it flies as the airline industry suffers.READ»

• Slideshow: 10 Hot Travel Websites

Logo's Loyal (and Lucrative) LGBT Following

Lisa Sherman, 51, launched Logo, MTV Networks' television channel for a gay and lesbian audience, in 2005, with just three advertisers and 13 million homes. It has since grown to 150 advertisers in every product category and more than 40 million homes.READ»

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