23 Burst results for "Priceline"
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Bloomberg radio. Shares a Booking Holdings are up more than 25% so far this year, the company recently gave an earnings update that was last week, beating both on the top and bottom lines. Among the online travel companies brands, priceline. Priceline CEO Brett Keller has been with the company for more than 20 years. He joined me and Bloomberg's just met with a positive outlook for priceline and the broader industry. Things are actually very good if you're in travel right now. Obviously a very tough 2020 and 2021, 2022 started to show some really nice signs. And for the last couple of quarters, the consumer has really demonstrated that their prioritizing travel right now, and as you mentioned earlier, we recently came out with our fourth quarter results. And it's showing real strength across especially across the U.S., but really across all markets around the world. And I'm really excited with spring coming up Carol and Brett. I was curious about what does the travel demand look like as we head into spring? Should we expect this strength to continue? I mean, when I think back to the holiday travel, there was a little bit of chaos when you thought about the airlines and some of that in the bookings, but what are you expecting for spring travel right now? Sure. Well, consumers have essentially kind of fallen back into their typical booking patterns, meaning they're traveling on the busiest days of the year. So they're going to pack those spring break weeks, especially families when children have time off from school. Families are really prioritizing travel this year, more so than last year. And most of them are heading to beaches and resort destinations. So if you want to go to one of those destinations, you can expect to find a lot of people traveling. I think the airlines have largely recovered and are operating at a pretty good scale now, but they still have limited capacity, which means planes will be very, very full. There's not really any slack in that industry at this time. Got to say, you know, I get that. If you try to book a flight right now for business or otherwise, man, those flights are expensive. We're still kind of blown away by how expensive it is. Does that continue? Because I'm thinking about the inflationary side of this story, what do you see in terms of cost for flights for lodging? How is it playing out? Sure, you know, when we look at forward bookings at the spring break time frame, which is really most of March and April, what we're seeing is flight prices are up about 25% over last year. So very expensive. If you're trying to travel overseas, which a lot of people are now heading out to Europe, you're going to see prices up to 40% over what you would be on what you were paying last year. On the hotel side, not so not so challenging. Hotel prices are up about four or 5%. So a little easier to consume those. But on the, if you try to fly, you're going to pay a lot of money. So I think you'll see quite a few consumers in the U.S. choosing to drive versus fly and they'll get to their hotel destination that way. But it's a lot to consume right now and consumers so far are inhaling those prices. We haven't seen either the hotel industry or the airlines really pull back on a lot of their price increases. And so as long as demand is there, we can expect those prices to stay rather high. Bread, any sign that capacity increased capacity comes into the airline industry. I mean, they've gotten so smart at taking out excess capacity. That was pre-pandemic. We saw that in a big way. They're great about charging for everything once you get on a flight or even on your way to that flight. Is there any signs or any indications that you're hearing that we get an increase in airline capacity? Well, I think there's some early signs. I know all of the airlines would love to build up capacity, what they've been challenged with, of course, is hiring enough pilots and staff and ground crew to support the oncoming flow of equipment. There have been a number of new orders put in for planes. And so I think over the next couple of years, we'll see that start to ease. But getting us through the summer, I think what we have today on the market is pretty much what we're living with, which means a very stressed environment when it comes to finding an airline ticket that is reasonably priced to a great destination. There are still deals to be found. You can still find reasonable locations to travel to, but you might have to be flexible if money
Bloomberg Radio New York
"priceline" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Regan with us as well. You're listening to Bloomberg businessweek, up next. Well, spring is knee, all right, you can feel that. And travelers, they are definitely looking to hit the road. Families are really prioritizing travel this year more so than last year. And most of them are heading to beaches and resort destinations. So if you want to go to one of those destinations, you can expect to find a lot of people traveling. Priceline CEO Brett Keller is up next. This is Bloomberg. Bloomberg radio on demand and in your podcast feed. On the latest sound on podcasts, labor secretary Marty Walsh on the February jobs report, as he departs to take on a new chapter leading the NHL players union. It's kind of strange Joe. This is 26 years of public service. Being here to the pot in the labor of the last jobs day means a great day for jobs in America. It's almost two year university of American rescue plane passing. So the president's done an amazing job and have been part of this ride with him and it's been amazing. The highest labor force participation rate since March of 2020. I remember where we all were in March of 2020. That wasn't bad time. So you're looking at the highest number since the pandemic essentially. Why are people now finally coming back to work? A lot of it has to do with the economic plan that President Biden's laid out. A lot of us do a business as well thinking about an adjusting to the worker. People are getting back to work because they need to get back to work. I think that having people vaccinated, the numbers of COVID going down all of that stuff is playing into this. You know, it's been a long two years. It's really when you think about it. And it could have been much, much worse. It was bad for a lot of people. And we're still dealing with the aftermath of inflation and other things, but it's good to see those numbers go up. It's good to see higher wages for people. It's good to see that we can identify today to even increase that labor participation for hire president put in his economic plan the other day. The blueprint, the budget defiles, child care, home care. All of those issues, if Congress addresses them, we will see those participation rates even go higher, which could set
Clark Howard Show
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Bloomberg Radio New York
"priceline" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Through U.S. airport checkpoints last Sunday, according to transportation security administration data. We're talking about the TSA. That's the most in a single day since before the COVID-19 pandemic up about four and a half percent from the same day last year again, according to the TSA. Still, the one day tally fell about 11% shy, the same figure in 2019. That's when 2.88 million travelers were screened with a look at the travel scene this past weekend and what may be to come. Bloomberg markets senior editor Mike Regan and Carol spoke with priceline CEO Brett Keller on the heels of a cross country flight to the east coast. The plane was completely packed, you know, a little bit of a delay coming into New York, but overall, you know, the Thanksgiving period of travel across the country was very smooth. You know, Brett, obviously inflation spend the hot topic all year. I'm wondering what you're seeing as far as prices in the travel hotel, airfare, that sort of thing. Are they rising as much as CPI would suggest something like 7, 8%? Actually a little hotter than that. Depends on whether you're booking a flight or booking a hotel, but they're both up on the hotel side. Prices up 7, 8% versus where they were a year ago today. So a little less in the CPI. But when you look at flies, they're closer to 15 to 20%, especially if you're flying overseas. So with the cost of jet fuel, you know, really up 50% where it was a year ago. That's pushing prices higher along with labor costs. And consumers seem to be shaking off those higher prices. They continue to prioritize travel over other purchases and are really hitting the road. So here at priceline, you know, we're releasing good, healthy travel demand. October actually accelerated from where it was in August and September, as we look into next year, patterns seem to be holding up, at least so far. So are we back at 2019 levels based on what you're seeing off your platform, Brett? Yeah, we're very close on the hotel front. If you just look at industry data broadly for the hotel category, their occupancy rates are just about where they were in 2019. Maybe a percentage point below, but very healthy. On the flight side, even higher in the 90s in terms of capacity utilization. So things look pretty good in the industry right now. And consumers no longer have any COVID concerns, especially here in domestic travel in the U.S. and we're seeing a really strong demand into Europe. And now starting into Asia as they've lifted restrictions there. Let me just a follow on that. So I am always curious Brett on a platform like yours. I mean, how much visibility do you have looking out? Is it a couple of months? Is it 6 months? Is it 12 months? What kind of visibility do you have in terms of what the environment might be for travel heading into 2023? Sure. Well, the average booking window for a consumer booking out into the future is usually pretty close in two, three to four weeks. That's really where most of the bookings happen. But we do see well into the future. People will book out two, three, and four months for certain types of vacations. And so that's a good proxy for what we're seeing. And so far, that data looks pretty good. Things are still relatively healthy as we look into the future into first quarter of next year. So demand again appears to be holding up. And we'll see where it goes from there. But so far, we're happy with how things are playing out in the travel space. You know, Brett, I think probably a lot of listeners hit your site, looking for a deal. Of course, or any tips on how to save a few bucks in the holiday season, considering prices of everything are higher, are there any sort of tricks of the trade
Bloomberg Radio New York
"priceline" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Businessweek with Carol massar and Bloomberg quick takes Tim stenavich from Bloomberg radio. Just over two and a half million passengers pass through U.S. airport checkpoints last Sunday, according to transportation security administration data. We're talking about the TSA. That's the most in a single day since before the COVID-19 pandemic up about four and a half percent from the same day last year again, according to the TSA. Still, the one day tally fell about 11% shy, the same figure in 2019. That's when 2.88 million travelers were screened with a look at the travel scene this past weekend and what may be to come. A Bloomberg market senior editor Mike Regan and Carol spoke with priceline CEO Brett Keller on the heels of a cross country flight to the east coast. The plane was completely packed, you know, a little bit of a delay coming into New York, but overall, you know, the Thanksgiving period of travel across the country was very smooth. You know, Bret obviously inflation spend the hot topic all year. I'm wondering what you're seeing as far as prices in the travel hotel, airfare, that sort of thing. Are they rising as much as CPI would suggest something like 7, 8%? Actually a little hotter than that. Depends on whether you're booking a flight or book in a hotel, but they're both up on the hotel side. Prices up 7, 8% versus where they were a year ago today. So a little less in the CPI. But when you look at flies, they're closer to 15 to 20%, especially if you're flying overseas. So with the cost of jet fuel, you know, really up 50% where it was a year ago. That's pushing prices higher along with labor costs. And consumers seem to be shaking off those higher prices. They continue to prioritize travel over other purchases and are really hitting the road. So here at priceline, you know, we're really seeing good, healthy travel demand. October actually accelerated from where it was in August and September, as we look into next year, patterns seem to be holding up, at least so far. So are we back at 2019 levels based on what you're seeing off your platform, Brett? Yeah, we're very close on the hotel front. You just look at industry data broadly for the hotel category. They're occupancy rates are just about where they were in 2019. Maybe a percentage point below, but very healthy. On the flight side, even higher in the 90s in terms of capacity utilization. So things look pretty good in the industry right now. And consumers no longer have any COVID concerns, especially here in domestic travel in the U.S. and we're seeing a really strong demand into Europe. And now starting into Asia as they've lifted restrictions there. Let me just follow on that. So I am always curious, Brett, on a platform like yours. I mean, how much visibility do you have looking out? Is it a couple of months? Is it 6 months? Is it 12 months? What kind of visibility do you have in terms of what the environment might be for travel heading into 2023? Sure. Well, the average booking window for a consumer booking out into the future is usually pretty close in two, three to four weeks. That's really where most of the bookings happen. But we do see well into the future. People will book out two, three, and four months for certain types of vacations. And so that's a good proxy for what we're seeing. And so far, that data looks pretty good. Things are still relatively healthy as we look into the future into first quarter of next year. So demand again appears to be holding up. And we'll see where it goes from there. But so far, we're happy with how things are playing out in the travel space. You know, Brad, I think probably a lot of listeners hit your site, looking for a deal. Of course, or any tips on how to save a few bucks in this holiday season, considering prices of everything are higher, are there any sort of tricks of the trade you could share with us? Yeah, absolutely. Listen, this is why priceline was founded 25 years ago was to help consumers navigate a very complex space and find savings
Bloomberg Radio New York
"priceline" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Pass through U.S. airport checkpoints last Sunday, according to transportation security administration data. We're talking about the TSA. That's the most in a single day since before the COVID-19 pandemic up about four and a half percent from the same day last year again, according to the TSA. Still, a little one day tally fell about 11% shy, the same figure in 2019. That's when 2.88 million travelers were screened with a look at the travel seen this past weekend and what may be to come. A Bloomberg market senior editor Mike Regan and Carol spoke with priceline CEO Brett Keller on the heels of a cross country flight to the east coast. The plane was completely packed, you know, a little bit of a delay coming into New York, but overall, you know, the Thanksgiving period of travel across the country was very smooth. You know, Bret obviously inflation spend the hot topic all year. I'm wondering what you're seeing as far as prices in the travel hotel, airfare, that sort of thing. Are they rising as much as CPI would suggest something like 7 8%? Actually a little hotter than that. Depends on whether you're booking a flat or booking a hotel, but they're both up on the hotel side. Prices up 7, 8% versus where they were a year ago today. So a little less in the CPI. But when you look at flies, they're closer to 15 to 20%, especially if you're flying overseas. So with the cost of jet fuel, you know, really up 50% where it was a year ago. That's pushing prices higher along with labor costs. And consumers seem to be shaking off those higher prices. They continue to prioritize travel over other purchases and are really hitting the road. So here at priceline, you know, we're really seeing good, healthy travel demand. We October actually accelerated from where it was in August and September, as we look into next year, patterns seem to be holding up, at least so far. So are we back at 2019 levels based on what you're seeing off your platform, Brett? Yeah, we're very close on the hotel front. If you just look at industry data broadly for the hotel category, they're occupancy rates are just about where they were in 2019. Maybe a percentage point below, but very healthy. On the flight side, even higher in the 90s in terms of capacity utilization. So things look pretty good in the industry right now. And consumers no longer have any COVID concerns, especially here in domestic travel in the U.S. and we're seeing a really strong demand into Europe. And now starting into Asia as they've lifted restrictions there. Let me just a follow on that. So I am always curious, Brett, on a platform like yours. I mean, how much visibility do you have looking out? Is it a couple of months? Is it 6 months? Is it 12 months? What kind of visibility do you have in terms of what the environment might be for travel heading into 2023? Sure. Well, the average booking window for a consumer booking out into the future is usually pretty close in two, three to four weeks. That's really where most of the bookings happen. But we do see well into the future. People will book out two, three, and four months for certain types of vacations. And so that's a good proxy for what we're seeing. And so far, that data looks pretty good. Things are still relatively healthy as we look into the future into first quarter of next year. So demand again appears to be holding up. And we'll see where it goes from there. But so far, we're happy with how things are playing out in the travel space. You know, Brad, I think probably a lot of listeners hit your site, looking for a deal. Of course, or any tips on how to save a few bucks in this holiday season, considering prices of everything are higher, are there any sort of tricks of the trade you
Bloomberg Radio New York
"priceline" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"And more and more consumers are able to do that now. So for example, with the upcoming holidays, try your best not to fly on the 23rd and the 27th. Right before and right after a Christmas holiday, or the day after New Year's Day, really try and push that out a couple of days, you can save 15 to 20% because they really optimally price for those dates from the airline side. A second way is on a site like priceline, you can book with a mixed carrier so you can fly out on one airline, fly back on another. That can typically deliver you anywhere from 5 to 10% off of what you would pay if you flew out and back on the same carrier. So by mixing and matching carriers, you can save money. And the third is to package. And bundle your bookings together. So if you're going to book a hotel on a flight, bundle those together, you will save money because we have access to specially negotiated race that can only be used in that bundled experience. And that does deliver real value up to a couple of $100 a trip when you really are thoughtful about destinations and how you book those together. All right, we're going to continue with Brett Keller. He's the CEO of priceline, joining us from Connecticut will continue with the conversation. So Mike, you've got some tips. You ready to book some travel? Nah, probably still not. I'm a homebody at the holidays. Maybe early anywhere. Maybe next year. Spring break. Spring break, planning ahead. All right, you are listening and watching Bloomberg business week, we're alive in our Bloomberg interactive broker studio streaming on YouTube as well as Bloomberg quick take just a reminder of how markets closed on this Monday first trading day of the week. The S&P 500 down, 62 points for a loss of one and a half percent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down just shy of 500 points, a decline of 1.45%, and the NASDAQ down almost 1.6% down a 176 points. Big week full of economic data. We will hear from Jay Powell before the fed goes into a quiet period ahead of that last fed meeting
Gambling With an Edge
"priceline" Discussed on Gambling With an Edge
"And they use priceline to grab the current rental rate, so you've really got three groups you're kind of dealing with. And again, once you pick up the vehicle, auto slashes out of the loop, I haven't tried priceline once you pick up the rental, but I get the feeling it'll be the same thing. So get all the stuff straightened out before you actually pick up the vehicle. And if you're gold or whatever program where you pick up the contract at the booth as you're exiting, it might be worth it to pull over to the side and take a quick look to make sure it's the way it you think it should be. Well, just for people who are not familiar with auto slash, just explain what their service is, what they do that and which is why we like them. Okay. So auto slash is a third, third party company, and what they do is you can make a reservation through their site, so you say I want a vehicle, you can specify the size, you can specify all the frequent flyer programs you have and other affinity programs. Tell them the dates and times, and they'll hunt for the best rate for you, and they'll give you maybe four or 5 options. And then once you select it, they work with priceline, and then I guess priceline books the vehicle through the car company. So you get an email back that says, okay, you have a reservation with national for this date. Here's your priceline contract number. Here's your national contract number. And then if you want to check rates later on, there's a checkbox that says about I want you to track this rate and then say a week later or a month later or whatever, you say, ha, I want to see if rates have changed, gotten better. You sent them an email, say I want to check rates on this reservation, and they'll go through and shop the prices around again for you. So free service, not quite sure where they make their money, but they've been in business for quite a while doing this. So good for them. And they started doing this with hotels as well. I haven't investigated the hotel side because generally going to Las Vegas. I don't need a hotel room, so I haven't really looked at that side of things, but that's another service they're getting into.
Clark Howard Show
"priceline" Discussed on Clark Howard Show
"It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard show. Our mission is to serve you and empower you, to make better financial decisions in your life. Up first on this episode, a ridiculously wild story about a hotel booking gone wrong. You're just not going to believe it. Want to know how you can protect yourself when booking travel. Well, I'd like to know sometimes. But usually I know how to tell you how to do that. Also, I have several scam warnings. I want you to be on the lookout for things that are popping up a lot right now that seem legit when you see them later. The New York Times has a column called tripped up. It's where people, it's like they have a who goes to work for people who have something really gone bad wrong with the travel experience. And there's an unbelievable story. It was The New York Times recently about a woman who was several months pregnant, flies into Laguardia airport, had booked a hotel on booking dot com and didn't really know how to use a hotel booking site. Gets to the hotel and the hotel no longer exists. Because it hit become a homeless shelter. The neighborhood it was in was when she shouldn't have been in in the first place. What happened next with booking dot com, which, by the way, is the parent company of priceline, was beyond horribly ridiculous. Customer knows
Bloomberg Radio New York
"priceline" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"S&P down 8 tenths of 1% S&P 500 Index ending the trading month of August of 39 55. I'm Charlie palette that is a Bloomberg business flash. Thank you so much for that update Charlie pellet. Really appreciate it. Let's get right back to Brett Keller, CEO of priceline. He joins us on Zoom from Norwalk, Connecticut. All right, Brett, I gotta tell you, Katie needs a vacation. She's got plenty of days left. I'm looking at her calendar right here, which we can do at Bloomberg, which is fun. And she has a lot of vacation days left, Katie, that you got to burn by the end of the year. I've got some vacation days. I've got a burn by the end of the year. Brett, where are people going? Where are the hot places to fly right now? All right, that is the question we need to answer here. We need to burn some vacations. So if you look at basically any day of the year, the top destinations are typically the entertainment venue. So that's going to be topping the charts almost always is going to be Las Vegas Orlando, New York. But as we started to look at where consumers are searching as we move into the fall, let me share a couple of destinations for you. Obviously, Puerto Rico, San Juan, tops are charts in terms of the most search in a domestic destination, at least within or close to the borders of the U.S.. Honolulu ranks number two in that list. Miami, of course, always a hotspot is where people are flocking here in the next couple of months. Where we are really singing though searches pick up at a very, very high pace, almost ten times where we were last year are of course international destinations. Things were not completely shut down last year, but really took travel you had to test, go through a number of hoops to actually get to your destination. So this year, that window has opened back up and we are seeing people really both travel to and search for international destinations at the top ones on our list, at least for the fall so far include destinations like Munich, so people are heading to October fest. That is back on the map again. People are going to destinations like Dublin and London. Other top destinations in Buddha Amsterdam, Paris, Lisbon, many of the hotspots that used to be big travel destinations for U.S. consumers are now back in Vogue again. Okay, Brett. So I actually have vacation days put in for the first week of or rather the second week of October, it's our 5 year wedding anniversary. We haven't seen anything. We haven't booked anything. If I'm trying to book international right now, is it just is it a disaster? Should I not even try? Well, it was a rough summer, right? I think the major airports overseas really couldn't handle the pressure and the crowds. And so you heard stories of lines that were four and 5 hours in length, many people missing flights and rebooking. I think we're past that type of pain when it comes to international travel. We're certainly not dealing with many of the testing protocols and the issues that were associated with COVID. So I think from that perspective, we're in good shape. From the airport and the congestion perspective, it will still be very busy because many of the Europeans are now of course moving around and cross countries as well. But things have improved. And many of the airports have put limits in place in terms of how many flies will allow to move through their airports. So I think you'll find that it's tolerable enough that you will want to travel to some of these destinations. These are the kinds of things that if you keep passing up in life, you're just not going to enjoy some of the best travel that the world has to offer. That's a good point. I always think about Warren Miller in the Warren Miller films. If you don't do it this year, you're going to be one year older when you do. Brett, before we go, there are always rumors about the best time to buy tickets, the cheapest days to buy tickets. I know the airlines have it pretty figured out in terms of from an analytics perspective. How to get the most money from us. Given that we think prices for fuel will go down as a result of lower oil prices, should we still be booking our holiday travel really earlier should we wait for prices to fall? Well, one, I'm not sure that I would ever bet on oil prices falling. They're just as likely to go back up in the future. But when we look back in history, this is true virtually every year. If you're booking holiday airfare, those are for the major holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, end of year, et cetera, you need to book early. You need to be booking in the September, October time frame. If you're talking about other types of fall travel, you really need to book at least two weeks in advance. So do not wait until the last week to book your flight. You will absolutely pay up. And it is true if you fly out on a Tuesday, you will save an average of at least 8% on your ticket. So book in advance, there are certain days of week that will play to your favor. And on priceline, you can do things like mix and match airlines, go out on one airline, come back on another, that typically can lead to savings of almost 10% if you're careful in how you plan. So those types of changes can take off 20 to 30% of your trip if you're careful in how you plan. But who wants to fly on a Tuesday? I don't know. That's the question. Exactly. That's right. I guess that's why it is. So much cheaper. Brett Keller, CEO of priceline, Brett. Thanks for taking some time and sticking with us for a little extra time this afternoon. It was great to get a good chunk of minutes with you today. Brad joining us via Zoom from Norwalk, Connecticut. So you might have seen him right there on YouTube. You are listening to a Bloomberg business week on Bloomberg radio, taking a look at the way that markets closed out the month. It was not a pretty one. The S&P 500 down 4.2% the NASDAQ down 4.6%. You're listening to a Bloomberg businessweek and this is Bloomberg radio. Let's get to Washington D.C. now
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ESPN Daily
"priceline" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Changing what the next steps might be. In the case of Brittany griner in Russia and at home. After the break. Right now, it feels like we're all getting less. Less social interaction, less sunlight, less steps, less being in the office. And while that last one might not be so bad, aren't you ready for more? With priceline, you can save up to 60% on your favorite hotels. And you can also get exclusive deals on rental cars and flights. And when you save more, you can do more, more walks on the beach, more talking to strangers, more fun in the sun, and no matter where you travel, still less being in the office. At priceline, every trip is a big deal. So when you're ready to book your next one, visit priceline dot com for the best deals that will help you get more out of it. Download our app for even more savings. The best time of the year is right around the corner because brackets are back. Yes, ESPN tournament challenge is here. So get ready for the madness and play for the upsets and the Cinderella's and the sleepers and the buzzer beaters. Set up a bracket group for your friends and family, check out expert insights and analysis and enjoy the action. Play the number one bracket game for a chance to win $200,000. Sign up for ESPN tournament challenge and download the app for free. TJ, as we continue to monitor the devastation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, all the violence, all the loss of life there. How does it all affect the fate of this one American athlete being held in Russia? Like every other part of the story, there's sort of an element of chaos to it. There's this sense that the war is so distracting that it keeps her under the radar and the protests in Russia mean that the jails are being filled right now with people in that country and that I've had experts here tell me that may be good because they may just want to say, look, get her out of here. Deal with the deal with it, get it off the plate. We have too much going on. On the other hand, because there is a war, if she is seen as an asset, all of a sudden, the case that maybe might have been resolved more quietly and favorably to her. Now it could be way more dangerous for her. So the stakes have gotten much bigger, but the war just adds another element of chaos. And have Russian authorities, intimated, said anything about the political aspect of Brittany griner remaining in prison. We haven't heard anything from Russia saying that specifically, but they last week broadcast the photo of her in custody. That sent chills through people over here because that meant, oh boy, are they about to make this a big deal? That was Russian state TV doing that. Somebody had to make the decision to broadcast that image. Does that mean it's about to become political? It doesn't seem like it has yet. Right, there is the chess game. The geopolitical chess game that you've outlined for us. And on that photo and specific and I saw the photo, it seems to be both simultaneously as you're describing it. You know, proof of life, allegedly, but also the next step in terms of driving discussion around this in the way that Britney greiner's family is honestly terrified of. Yeah, very much. Yeah, I had a great.
Side Hustle School
"priceline" Discussed on Side Hustle School
"I was a kid and my parents took us on vacation. They used a travel agent but flight. I know it's such an outdated idea but So people these days just go online and book things themselves but it looks like travel agents still exist especially to help people plan more trips and excursions as well as for luxury hotel bookings where agents still earn a commission and have access to the perks that a normal traveler doesn't get so. I'm wondering if you can let me know how i break into this market. Do i need to get certified and do you know what the earning potentials are looking forward to hear your thoughts on this by. I remember the same thing with my parents I grew up into families that were on opposite sides of the country Sometimes one family was out of the country. So i did a lot of flying back and forth for summers and holidays and such and at least a few times i remember going with my mom or my dad to the travel agency to book my tickets or even even to learn about options which i know a lot of our listeners are like oh my god i can't imagine a world like that and i can't imagine a world like that either. You know the internet is so much better But travel agents as susan said in susan. Thank you for the question. They do remain helpful for exactly what she mentioned. luxury trips. Specialized tours upscale hotel stays less over basic airfare since that's not usually commission -able anymore so traditional travel agents have largely gone out of business or at least they've had to evolve in some way because they don't get paid very well by the airlines airlines kind of figured out. We don't have to pay them so much. But there are other options as mentioned so susan asked about certification. It's not actually required as a travel agent. There are several different bodies fit offer certification. It's probably a good step in terms of your social proof to have something so if you look at the travel institute dot com also international travel institute dot com which appear to be two different business slash certification companies. I do think there companies more than organizations which tells you a bit But at least for one of them you can pay four hundred and fifty dollars. Then you become a certified travel associate
Side Hustle School
"priceline" Discussed on Side Hustle School
"You can listen to our conversation on the special bonus episode or follow. Subscribe to side by side with us bank or visit side by side with us bank dot com to stay up to date on the entire limited series us bank. We'll get there together. Have you ever used a travel agent to book a trip now before you say no because i think a lot of our listeners like no i don't use a travel agent. Just go and do it online. Well if you've ever used a site like orbits travelocity or priceline then you have actually worked with a travel agent because these are online travel agencies. They just aren't always so helpful. When you have a problem which is supposed to be one of the main benefits of working with an agent. I mentioned all that because today's listener is interested in becoming a travel agent in the modern sense of the profession. It's an interesting profession or side business these days just because the industry has evolved so much so in lots of ways. Travel agents aren't needed like individual. Travelers are empowered to find lots of information and make a lot of bookings themselves but they do still serve a purpose and some of them actually make a good living at it. So that's what our listener wants to figure out. How can she get certified. How can she find her market and enter the world of becoming a travel agent question and answer coming up in just thirty seconds. Are you finding it difficult to collaborate outside of traditional office well miro is a collaborative white boarding online platform designed to help people visualize discuss and share work. It's like a whiteboard that hangs up in an office just much better. It's more collaborative lots of features all kinds of interactivity. I am trying it out myself with the world domination summit planning team. We're gonna share some ideas work on scheduling and just explore the fun. Visual format miro is creating a revolution and how we create and collaborate join the over twenty million users today sign up and use miro today for free go to mirrow. That's iro dot com slash hustle to start your free account sign up today and take advantage of three pre whiteboards with this exclusive offer. Go to mirrow r. o. dot com slash hustle. And start using mirrow. Today.
The Product Podcast
"priceline" Discussed on The Product Podcast
"Nfl was actually purchased by a company called priceline holdings back in two thousand five so at the very genesis of booking dot com is actually through by in two thousand ten seeing the fantastic need of people to have rental house. When the book the hotels well priceline holdings purchased rental costs will come in two thousand fifteen in society quarter. Cut a regular rhythm that you can see every five years. We decided to build an entire taxi. Transfer business basically taking people to and from airports accommodations so providing a great linkage. Between all these different parts of the trip. Attractions was again. Ah by decision in twenty eighteen buying One of the biggest attractions companies on the face of the planet powered by hobby and then flights we decided to build as well for various reasons. in two thousand nineteen. So you can see this kind of patent of build versus buy only recently. Did we thinking about how the stitch always things together in the fall. The connected trip. So what is the magic that we really bring to the table and there were five things. I'm gonna focus on intends of how we do product in a very special way in a very different way of booking. That has helped us. Really powell. That true rocketship. You know one rocket ship that is not just gross but of revenue growth and profitability over the last twenty years. What are these five things that we're going to focus on today. The first one is really okay. Ause i'm sure lots of you could have okay on us. I'm sure many of you have seen implementations of okay. How's it tough worked from a from a scale of ok. Too good But i think we embody the concept of okay. ause at a very very Excellent level than booking. So but what do i mean by that. And what do okay. How's me to us so first of all okay. Chaos or objectives in key results. A something that we set both in bottom up and a top down fashion we really want to understand from productivity from engineering teams from data teams design teams. What are the objectives that you'll going after. How a you building things as a team. What are the things you know reporting about your customers. And at the same time we align those with the top down vision of where the company wants to go for example focusing on the connected trip making sure that we offer a seamless experience.
Biz Talk Radio
"priceline" Discussed on Biz Talk Radio
"Or Press the button. On our site. You can email me. Just be nice. And I must tell you all we've been getting as nice emails as of late. Interesting. Nothing but nice. Wow. Every now and then we would get you know one of those nothing but nice right now. Anyway. Hope you're having a good day, so Yeah. The markets. Our forte. We have been Very much telling you How it's quite the split tape. That we look at markets. We scan 200 sectors. Every country every commodity. 1500 names. And really one of the most important things we do is go through all the names inside the sectors to tell you what's leading what's lagging. We want to be repetitive here. Because there's certain themes playing out right now. That are of import. We will do those themes today. As we did yesterday. As we did the day before. And the day before that. And right now we're in one of those moments you could be fully invested. And losing a bunch. While the S and P touched new highs today. And the NASDAQ. You can be fully invested in doing fine. If you're in the right areas. And it's not easy because I have news for you the areas that are working now with dead for four months. The areas that were working during those four months but then topping our top for now. Trust because of that ends up being on the low side. But we do know one thing. New highs can beget new highs. Yesterday. The semiconductors broke into new high ground yesterday. They're of import. Some of the bigger tech names. Facebook, Microsoft Adobe. Getting the juice. Apple slowly trying. Amazon. Teased a couple of times, but still okay. But we want to concentrate again on the other end. For today. So for right now, not just today will cover everything. And the other end. Is on November 9th. Of last year. The vaccine was announced. And you had a move in what we call the opening up trade. The vaccine trade Well, we've been telling you, as of recent it looks done for now. As all these areas just about all have broken below first lines of support with some below second lines. And for this second new commitments should be avoided. So we just want to be repetitive again. Notwithstanding, bounces everything travel related. Is under some pretty good pressure now. And as we said yesterday, maybe it has to do with this variants of the variant of the, uh, the virus. I don't know. We just follow the bouncing ball. So airlines Cruise lines. Hotels. The travel related stuff, for example, and Expedia Booking holdings, which I don't know why they change the name from Priceline because that's the name everybody knows, And that's the one they advertise on TV makes no sense. They've all topped And some pretty damn.
You Beauty
How to Tell if a Foundation Will Match Your Skin Tone
"Can you please give stuff on five on. What is the best of quite to check that. The foundation that you'll put sing is going to net show. Skin can lays can have like a much better answer to that but my response would be to buy whatever and slap it of yourself. Because that's what i do and then pay. That's not the right shade kelly. I don't care. I blended it down to my nipples. We look like it is exactly it. Just go with it. Look at is really tricky. Good old carver times. Although i don't even think supermarkets ever had tested no it was more like priceline off. Did so there's a few options is a website called foundation dot com. It's a play on foundation and it matches your foundation shades to existing products. You already have so. You need to know your shade. And i think to existing foundations and then we'll tell you you're shading others so four also has an online diagnostics tool. I know we're talking. W and stuff like that. But sephora has a fantastic tool if you didn't want to do that. Some brands have their matching tools. So for example m beauty which is through big no The w would release the big place and there was a w they have their own tool on their website. So you can go on. Without what should i do. I've been hitting store or purchase online. Let's grab that shade. Mecca does give samples. I know that's not part of the question. But if you want perhaps look at investing because by the time i guess trial and error with the more affordable stuff you might go to make our get a little tiny. They'll give you a few skirts in apart that he can go home and try it. But i would believe it or not. You're look a bit strange. But i would take your existing foundations with you and hold up to the bottle because that's better than nothing. It's better than comparing to you. Skin on your hand on the skin on your face by holding up the bottom. That's really the closest you're gonna get on. It is trial and error yes. These are more affordable products knowing waste of money and product. If they don't
77WABC Radio
"priceline" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"In New York, New York for Priceline Com LLC as front and developer worked with a team of fellow developers, product owners and design team members on modern technology stack grounded in Know Js requires a bachelor's and computer science, engineering, electronic engineering or related and five years of software development. Engineering in Web application development and infrastructure. Automation. Experience specified must include four years with JavaScript core language features and functionality, including ES six and S. Seven building rest fel AP Eyes Software development Patterns oo P Flux Redo modular MVV M M V C or observer and distributed version control Get and get Flow Experience specified must also include three years with authoring modular CSS CSS modules or post CSS JavaScript framework or library REACT angular or Ember and Web server Side technologies Know Js send resonated Talent acquisition at Priceline Com Reference number A P one. Five. Mercy can sing with you, baby. See? Go, Go, Go, go! 7 42! Hi, everybody, because if you see on your radio and hope everyone's enjoying We call this our get together, and this is a regular thing now got to be a habit with you every Saturday 65 o'clock, and then it's our Tony Tony times, Right? Here's what I owe, you know. Cousin Lucy of Mamaroneck. There's dead Lucy When I was a team in the mid seventies, I was a big Bay City rollers. Crazy fan. Yep. Can you please wait Saturday night Because We're listening to you. And it is because of Lucy M. Thank you very much on 234..
NPR's Business Story of the Day
As Vaccine Approvals Loom, U.S. Funds A Back-Up Plan For Delivery
"When the time comes to vaccinate the world against cove in one thousand nine hundred and will there be enough glass vials and syringes to get it done. The trump administration appears to have a plan later. Today it's expected to announce that it will loan about six hundred million dollars to accompany in connecticut. Makes an injection device that can be mass produced. Here's dina ten of npr's investigations team. That's the sound of a covid nineteen vaccine backup plan. It's a production line in columbia south carolina. That's turning out a novel injection device that the trump administration is counting on to help deliver the covid nineteen vaccine as early as this spring. Npr's learn that later today the administration will add to its already hefty investment in a company called apogee systems america and extend more than half a billion dollars to its effort to backstop the country's covid nineteen vaccine program. I'm jay walker. And i am the chairman of abject systems and you founded another company. We've heard of right. yes i am. Best known as the founder of priceline dot com the founder priceline. The man who put william shatner back on the map is now producing a single use self contained injection device. That's designed to be an alternative to glass vials and syringes. We called a seret. It's a little bigger than your thumb and it looks a little like the single doses of eyedrops that you get from the eye doctor. It has a hypodermic needle. That you screw into the end like you do when you screw in a nozzle on a tiny bottle of crazy glue. Only in this case it would carry any number of approved. Covert vaccines walker said. It's that effort that the us international development finance corp. is funding with a five hundred and ninety million dollar loan. The us government is announcing a plan to support the biggest and fastest vaccine syringe filling factory up to three billion doses a year. That's billion with a b. Even though the injection device has yet to be approved by the food and drug administration which worries nicole lurie. She served at the department of health and human services. During the obama administration fit challenge that i see is that it is a completely untested technology. What testing of the applejack product has been done to ensure that the materials inside the epa jet containers don't interact with components of the various vaccines. The vaccine being produced by moderna for example needs to be kept it. Arctic temperatures walker says the epa jet devices can handle that but the fda has yet to certified that that's true but then you can say that about a lot of the projects funded by the trump administration to try to combat the virus. Tens of billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent to fund a roster of vaccines some of which are bound to fail. The point is to try and find a solution deirnesa wrong as the global program leader for medical devices at path which is focused on improving global public health in developing countries. And he's been tracking progress for a while and he says it's hired some people who are really good at pre filled technologies from our perspective. A low cost pre fill. Is something that we've always been aiming towards for low and middle income countries. He doesn't think the administration is making a particularly risky bet. I'm excited about what could be. I mean we could truly have a low cost scaled up pre filled system. That could be used for a number of different drugs or vaccines biologics. That could benefit low and middle income countries. Applejack is getting a cash infusion. Now it needs fda approval to become the backup plan. The trump administration is banking on dna temple. Ralston npr news.
Marketing Over Coffee
Mark Irvine on the State of Marketing
"Good Morning. Welcome to marketing over coffee. I'm John Wall today. Our guest is Mark Irvine. He's the director of strategic partnerships. At Word Stream. GonNa talk to us about what's going on in the advertising space and we are going to focus a lot on cove nineteen in what's going on. He's done a bunch of research on how this has affected searches. And what's going on with all the ad networks so we're excited to have him with us here today. Mark thanks for joining US John. Thanks for having me. This really exciting. Let's take a step back. Talk to us about Word Stream. What do you do and how did you get there? So Word Stream is an online advertising software that agencies and advertisers alike use to manage their advertising across Google search display Microsoft Bing facebook and instagram and so effectively. A lot of what people do online is a lot of repetitive tasks. In terms of how you go about managing ad campaigns what we do is we try to supply. Yeah that's really the big thing for me when finding out about you guys and talking about what you do is just that as a marketing department gets bigger. You reach that point where you've reached the first milestone where you have one person that you're just kinda like okay you become the ads guru and they're the ones that are doing the testing and learning what's working and not working but then they hit a point where they have to roll them across all the different networks the different channels and it reaches this point where it's completely unmanageable you know. They're spending like an hour of each day in each of the tools and you guys are an alternative to that. Did you see a specific point when somebody finally just cries uncle and comes to talk to you? Is there any specific place where you tend to see people give you a call? Yeah you know. It's really interesting. Because a lot of the businesses we primarily work small businesses and a lot of the people who are working with. They're not just in charge of that one ad campaign but they're also doing email and they're also doing seo and quite frankly a lot of these small businesses they're oftentimes the owner or someone who's out in the field at the same moment in time what you can't do as you operate business what. I've learned I can't do effectively. I can't manage. People manage business manager ad campaigns and do a task all at the same time. If you're just learning paid search or if you're just learning online advertising we specifically focus on okay. Here are the seven things that you need you every single week to be successful on Google Bing facebook and as you go about adding to that yes of course google and being or Google and facebook. They all share similar concepts online. But how you go about making sure. That your touching all of your advertising equally in effectively is a learned task. Yeah I do love that idea of. It's not just. It's not a system for experts where it's a power tool that someone would go in and do all of this kind of stuff but it's really an expert system in that it's reaching out proactively using okay. Here's the things you gotta get wrapped up this week if you want this to work and and it kind of puts people on the right track. That's interesting to me though that it does go all the way down to kind of smaller businesses and people who that's not their whole job so I actually Kinda come in a lot earlier in the cycle that I thought was the case. Are there any guidelines as far as spend or like how much of the marketing mix is coming from advertising? Are there any stats there? As far as when somebody can reach this point you know we often see. We do have people who've never advertised before we have agencies who are just beginning to offer paid search to their Seo clients or what have you. They're just beginning to get in the paid search space. Broadly across the board. When I talk about thirty thousand accounts we see an average spend of about a thousand dollars a month so it's still relatively small across all of their networks but beyond that we take small businesses and we also have some some larger guys as well who use the platform for for time management just for honesty and credibility. It's one of those things that paid searches so simple to get started at so simple to feel like you know what you're doing and in that same process just dangerous enough to be bad at one of my favorite hobbies to do a google search for hotels and in your local city and then go and do the same search on bing and you'll see like expedia or priceline or these large brands off have very different ads across those two networks oftentimes inaccurate ads between the two. So it's very easy to have a large budget and still be unsuccessful on a network. Yeah Yeah I can understand that you are kind of all over the place and it's interesting to me to that it's great. That is all the way down at that thousand dollar a month price point. Because that's definitely doable for for small businesses. Especially if they're able to get a return it only a thousand dollars then. Yeah it seems like you WanNa get up and running as quickly as you can and get to the point where you're not worried about the logistics. But you're actually you know testing ads and getting some useful tweaking exactly. Logistics isn't the thing that gets anyone who has a bed in the morning. So whatever you can do to make sure that you're going in and making changes that are effective in your ad copy rather than just pressing a series of buttons and Google ads or facebook. How can you go about making change? That's GonNa Affect Your Roi. Okay now another interesting thing with your background that I wanted to touch upon love to hear about just kind of how you got to where you are but a big part of it. Is You know your data scientist for a number of years. So you have the background that that we love to talk about people kind of getting in playing with the number so tell us a bit more about your role as data scientists and how you got over there. Yeah it's really interesting. I at ridgely had no interest in marketing when I first started my career. I actually majored in math because my mother told me that. If you'd be willing to do people's math you'll always have a job. And so lo and behold I found my holden in marketing a world where traditionally people were not mathematically your data and I joined word stream about seven years ago and at the time word stream had a still a whole lot of thousands of individual clients. We had a lot of data. But what were we doing with? That data was unique to the individual account. My role as it is. Scientists was really investigating not just the role with an individual accounts. But what was going on across thousands of accounts win at change happened when the Google Surp- changed when new ad copy was tested. When they google start running out with new tests or started watching new ad formats. There are changes that people see in terms of the numbers and anecdotally. Everyone has some sense of what's going on their own account but what's going on at large. We suddenly became the largest data repository outside of Google to begin to run those numbers so I spent six seven years at word stream really just running the numbers under saying the trends in terms of what made someone successful with their online advertising our own client set and as a had all that data as I understood all of that started working closely with the individual ad networks with our partners at Google with partners Microsoft with their partners that facebook. And so now. I'm having Lengthy conversations about the changes that they're having and how I think it's going to impact our SNB's sweet
Coast to Coast AM with George Noory
This company wants to get you the best local weed deals
"Sessions resigned praise. The why now why would you say that spy would say praise because Mr. sessions was pretty anti marijuana is used to call it, but cannabis anti anything about it would not open like the government, they need to open their eyes and see the benefits and the enjoyment and all the other elements cannabis certainly invested vehicle and in whether you whether you whether you imbibing cannabis in a medical way through through western or eastern medicine. Or you're just a roller Pringles story short. It's a common just like prohibition didn't work. The marijuana makes millions of otherwise law abiding citizens of criminals, and we're not you know, how that prohibition thing workforce. How how how is the drug war working for us? It's not and the interesting part of this thing is as approaches as an investment vehicle. What's you're seeing is an opportunity here to take a look at some of these companies, and because it's really a new frontier we're able to talk to a couple of CEO's a public companies here and there one one one group of audience members. I can't remember if it was a bunch of radio guys or TV guys that emailed us about this company leaf buyer technologies. Put Rosner is the CEO. He's the chairman of the board of a company called leap are you going to leave buyer dot com. But he's right dead center in the middle of this of this cannabis vertical, and he joins us right now, Kurt taste. How are you, sir? Hi, how are you guys? Nice to meet you. So so you're the guy that people emailing us about this. This is the guy behind the league. We don't cover. Your mom called and said, she should get him on the can you tell us overall. I have to ask this question the very beginning because the tax benefits that you're seeing in Colorado, the tax benefits that you're sitting in Oregon and the tax is you're seeing in Canada are outweighing almost every argument against the legalization of not only medicinal cannabis but recreational cannabis. Why are they doing it? So right up in Canada. And we can't get it figured out down here. Well, I think overall I mean, if you look at the states, I think Colorado, and I'm a little prejudice because I live here, and we have our business here. But there are some states that I think are doing it. Right. I think California where you guys are has had a couple they've they've stumbled a couple of times. Well, we don't have it infrastructure here. Number one. You guys put it infrastructure in place before you legalize it. We just legalize it and said, oh, yeah, we packaging and testing. Yeah. And then they changed the rules, and it's gotten into I think you guys set yourself up much better than California did. Absolutely. And I think that's there's some politics two, right? I mean, you have Denver, which is a very left city, Colorado Springs, right city. It's kind of a mix here. Obviously. It's going more left. You know, as as the elections are going by. But I think that has something to do with it. You know, a lot of a lot of the business people had a voice versus, you know, more government having more regulation in this thing. So it's a good mix of both. Before we get to talking about leaf buyer. I also wanna talk about as a whole, do you think you think the wave is going to start in because it seemed like this thing was moving in the right direction that we sort of stalled a little bit during all what's going on the last eighteen months. I'm not talking about as an industry. I'm just talking about is the legalisation side of it goes, do you think that's going to ramp back up to see more and more states? What do we have twenty six right now or twenty one states got my fingers crossed a few more than that. I think they will continue. I'm very bullish obviously in this industry. I think that it goes in waves, right? We had a very large Porsche there's not as much. News coming out right now about everything the elections. There was some wins. I think overall there was some big wins in the cannabis space. But I think we'll see some elections in two years that'll keep adding to that I'm going to get a lot of these markets. You know, you're looking at Michigan on the map there that's gonna be a very very big market, very influential in that area in the rust belt. And I think obviously the west coast where you guys are obviously it has it has done it right Colorado in the middle there. I think we're going to see this really expand over the next few years. The the name of the company, by the way is leaf by technologies Karasu who are talking to here via Skype is the chairman of the CEO, and he we had some listeners viewers Senate saying this guy in the air to talk about this. So we decided to grab him here. He is talking about your company. What's the handy website? I'll tell you that. So what do you do there talking about Lifa? I think the easiest way to look at what what we do. We're a technology platform that connects cannabis consumers and cannabis dispensaries or product companies much like Priceline or orbits. You and the travel industry. That's what we do in this space. So we're are picks and shovels relative in the gold rush. So we are an answer. Larry technology company that can scale everywhere, right? We don't have as many boundaries as the dispensaries do and people come to our platform our network of platforms to connect with what they're looking for in the industry, flower, medicinal, etc. They can come to leave Barron. Find it. So if our
Business Wars Daily
Eating Away at OpenTables Monopoly
"With pay pal. You can rely on a trusted payments partner that processes over ten million payments per day when it comes to growing your business. Pay pal is your payments partner for today and tomorrow, visit pay pal dot com slash growth to sign up for a business account for free today. From wondering I've David Brown this business wars daily on this Friday, November second who knew the restaurant reservation. Business was so throat. Open table has been the default restaurant. Reservations at for two decades by last year, the company owned by Priceline was seating more than twenty three million diners a month worldwide. But suddenly last year to upstarts started making inroads into open tables territory reserve and ready both are geared toward trendy restaurants. In major cities, they'll help you get a table at restaurants foodies love a recent analysis by the online publication Recode showed that although it is still much smaller than open table resume is gaining on its more established competitor among newer, hip or restaurants, but first quick primer on how reservation apps work the restaurants themselves bear, the brunt of the costs open table charges. Two hundred four. Eighty nine dollars a month and up and then tax on a dollar per diner, charged for everyone in your party reserve in resume on the other hand offer flat monthly fees, and they usually don't add up per diner charge helping them to steal restaurants away from open table the idea. If you're a foodie, you'll use whichever app you need to get the reservations you want. But for open table, losing a popular restaurant is a blow to its bottom line, which may be why when open table lost several Chicago restaurants to reserve earlier this year, a rogue employees tried to sabotage reserve by making fake reservations through that system. Hundreds of subsequent restaurant no-shows made reserve look terrible. When the scheme was uncovered it was a scandal for open table, which fired the employee and reimbursed the restaurants for lost profits, which just goes to show, you that they're restaurant business may seem classy and elegant but things can get ugly pretty quickly behind the scenes. Brum wondering this is business wars daily. This week's episodes are written edited and produced by lane Appleton grand. Ginny lowers our editor and producer. Our executive producer is Marshall. Louis rated by or non Lopez for wondering, I'm David Brown. CNN? Week. Business wars daily is brought to you by pay pal. Once an attorney in New York City, Linda transformed her resale hobby into a thriving luxury consignment company called Linda stuff. What was once a passion project that started by selling her kids? Video games is now a one hundred person company in ninety three thousand square foot facility wholly focused on designer fashion as a company specializing in high end, previously owned goods, reputation is everything integrity and trust. Or a critical part of how the company operates from day. One Linda has counted on pay pal every step of the way to help give customers confidence and protect her business from fraud, even when selling internationally when it comes to growing your business. Pay pal is your payments partner for today and tomorrow, visit pay pal dot com slash growth to set up a free business account today. That's pay pal dot com slash growth. To sign up for free today.
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EU commissioner on $5 billion antitrust fine: Google has to 'stop this behavior'
"They have denied European. Consumers the, benefit of effective competition in the very, important, more was fair so Taylor that. Of course was EU competition Commissioner Marguerite the sti- or speaking. Last month if you remember Google received an almost five billion dollar fine it was a record from the EU and was ordered, to change the way it put search and web browser apps on Android mobile devices, penalty is far higher than anyone that's. Been dished out by the US the Chinese or any other anti-trust authority it's really. Interesting that they're trying to sort of make a crackdown on these companies is there sort of feeling like they're falling behind intact and want to be able to better compete with the US and China and Europe hasn't had, that breakout. Tech star that really needs to put itself on the map but Jeremy Mikan found that there are some hopeful startups around the continent Europe historically has suffered from a number of things traditionally there was there is a lack of, entrepreneurial spirit Becoming an auditor wasn't. Something that a lot of European young people wanted, to do there are a lot of very large. Corporations that have been, around for decades kind of in. The environment they're also as a lack of venture capital funding lack. Of people to offer that venture capital funding and to some extent there was a lack of skills I think all, those things are no longer the case in Europe and now you find there are a ton of. Young people who want to be entrepreneurs and start their own businesses a very popular career choice for people coming out of universities just to go work for a startup so that. Problems kind of solve the venture capital funding has increasingly comeback Europe last year had a, record level of venture capital. Funding at at nineteen billion US dollars and law that's still a lot less than the US which had. About sixty. Seven billion or China which had about forty billion it? Is a record for Europe and it's four times as much as what's available. Just five