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Booking Holdings Inc. is an American travel technology company incorporated under Delaware General Corporation Law and based in Norwalk, Connecticut, that owns and operates several travel fare aggregators and travel fare metasearch engines including namesake and flagship Booking.com, Priceline.com, Agoda, Kayak, Cheapflights, Rentalcars.com, Momondo, and OpenTable.
On its first day of trading, Kayak opened at $26 per share and closed at $33.18 per share. [ 16 ] On May 21, 2013, Booking Holdings , then known as Priceline.com, acquired the company for $2.1 billion.
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The name and URL were changed to Booking.com and Stef Noorden was appointed as its CEO. In July 2005, the company was acquired by Priceline Group (now called Booking Holdings) for $133 million, and was merged with ActiveHotels.com, a European online hotel reservation company, purchased by Priceline Group for $161 million in September 2004. [7]
Booking Holdings stock has tripled since Fogel became CEO in 2017, reflecting an >30% CAGR over a quarter of a century, and is up 50% this year alone as travel growth continues to outpace global ...
Priceline.com is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States and is wholly owned by Booking Holdings, which also owns Kayak.com, Booking.com and other sites. The company was founded in 1997. The company was founded in 1997.
After Booking Holdings acquired Israel-based startup Qlika in 2014, the Qlika team joined Agoda to automate and scale its marketing systems. [11] In November 2014, the company opened a research center in Tel Aviv. [12] In May 2016, Booking Holdings acquired Taipei-based startup WooMoo, the creator of POP, a mobile app that focused on prototyping.
HotelsCombined, a unit of Booking Holdings, is a hotel metasearch engine founded in 2005, with headquarters in Sydney, Australia. [1] The site operates in over 42 languages, handles 130 different currencies and aggregates more than 2 million deals from hundreds of travel sites and hotel chains. [2] The company employs over 200 staff. [1]