Ebookers leads, HotelClub lags as Orbitz puts best face on lackluster performance

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Orbitz Worldwide is pinning its hopes on a now-completed technology platform migration and an American Express private label deal, which is supposed to generate some momentum starting in the fourth quarter of 2012.

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Orbitz CEO plans to revolutionize hotel sort — holy Hadoop

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When you get Barney Harford going about his pet project, turning around Orbitz Worldwide, he talks so fast that he seems to forget that sentences have periods on the end for a reason.

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RatesToGo to change hotel business model

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RatesToGo will begin to take merchant-model hotel bookings as one of several steps parent company Orbitz Worldwide is taking to improve its hotel business in Asia-Pacific.

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Orbitz losses widen on under-performing US businesses

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Orbitz Worldwide’s first quarter losses widened to $10.9 million, from $5.3 million in the red a year earlier, and the company attributed much of the drag to its under-performing U.S. consumer businesses.

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