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...challenger eLong, which is majority-owned by Expedia and has followed a more fitful progression - initially offering vacation packages, but temporarily withdrawing them in 2007 to focus on air tickets and hotels. Both players offer nearly identical prices, so customer service is a key point of difference. While Chinese Web users have become more sophisticated about researching prices on the Internet, they still prefer to buy tickets by phone (just 35% of Ctrip's customers buy their air tickets via the website). Ctrip's step-by-step approach has also helped there, enabling it to steadily accommodate increasing business volumes...
...wide in 3-D. Of its 3,728 North American venues, 2,063 were on 3D screens, plus another 180 in Imax 3-D. So Alice topped Avatar as the all-time biggest opener in the stereoptic format. "It also shattered Avatar's recently set IMAX record," the industry web site The Wrap reported, "selling out each of the 188 digital 3-D outlets on the way to a weekend total of $11.9 million." Overseas, Alice was just as impressive, ending Avatar's 11-week reign by earning $94 million abroad, for a worldwide total of $210.3 million. The movie...
While finals are still months away, the Registrar's Office has posted the exam schedule on their Web site. If you need to make travel plans or are curious about when that Ec 10 exam is, check out the schedule here...
...former Crimson President Josh H. Simon '00, claims to do just that. Function Drinks, a company “created by physicians,” aims to combine great flavor with “unique and powerful functionality,” according to the company's Web site. With flavors like Acai Pomegranate, Strawberry Guava, and Citrus Prickly Pear, Function Drinks is targeting college students across the country with its new, brightly colored beverages...
...buys and big strategic buys. In Picnik they got two for the price of one. Among Picnik's 22-person staff are three former Microsoft employees - "three of the best guys ever to step off the Redmond campus on one team," boasts Picnik adviser Burgess - along with other respected Web talents. Marcelo Calbucci, an entrepreneur who founded Seattle 2.0, a service for Seattle start-ups, estimates on his blog that Google paid at least $46 million for Picnik, possibly twice that much. Picnik and Google have both refused to disclose purchase terms...