Travel sites surge on Orbitz takeoverPlus: Google soars past $130
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Speculation that consolidation will sweep through the online travel industry ignited a buying spree in shares of Internet travel sites.
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Google Inc. GOOG.O stock jumped more  than 12 percent on Wednesday to new highs, pushing the Web  search leader past eBay Inc. EBAY.O as the biggest Internet  company in terms of stock market value, after trouncing  quarterly earnings forecasts.
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Google stock jumped above $500 for the first time Tuesday, leaving the shares up nearly 500 percent since the world's No. 1 search engine went public little more than two years ago.
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Travel and real estate heavyweight  Cendant Corp. CD.N is nearing a deal to buy online travel  site Orbitz Inc. ORBZ.O, which is controlled by the top five  U.S. airlines, for about $1.2 billion in cash, a source close  to the talks said on Tuesday.
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A smart investor pays $1.25 billion for Orbitz. So what's Travelzoo worth?
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Internet travel company Travelocity has granted AGC Holdings and Abacus International PTE Ltd. a put option that could require Travelocity to buy the equity interest in Zuji Holdings Limited it does not already own, according to a filing with federal regulators on Tuesday.
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Travel and hospitality company Cendant will acquire online travel supplier Orbitz for around $1.25bn (Â£690m). Cendant said it had reached a definitive agreement to buy all Orbitz shares.
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Google shares crossed a much-anticipated high-water mark that highlights the companyÂs explosive growth since its initial public offering in 2004.
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Source says travel and real estate giant is close to reaching agreement to acquire travel Web site. PHILADELPHIA  - Travel and real estate company Cendant Corp.
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Shares in Google rise more than 12% in  New York following the announcement of its huge rise in profits.
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IAC/InterActive spins off the online travel service. Also: PCs sprout second brain.... Nielson ratings show broadband users surpassing dialup.... and more.
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NEW YORK -- Cendant has a deal to buy the Orbitz online travel company for about $1.25 billion. The offer, valuing Orbitz shares at $27.
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Shares of Google Inc. GOOG.O jumped  13 percent to $167 on Friday after the Web search leader posted  its first results as a public company, and one broker said the  stock could hit $200, rekindling dot.com-era fervor.
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Shares of newly public Google  Inc. GOOG.O on Tuesday hit a new high and posted  their  largest single-day percentage gain after five investment banks  issued bullish reports on the leading Web search provider.
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Sabre Holdings Corp. , owner of  the Travelocity Web site, is expected to announce on Tuesday  that it has agreed to a takeover offer of $32.75 per share, or  about $4.3 billion, from private equity firms Texas Pacific  Group  and Silver Lake Partners, according to a source  familiar with the situation.
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The latest company to join Google is  on-demand communications security and compliance solutions Postini. The deal was sealed today with Google purchasing Postini for a hefty sum of $625 million according to a Google official press release.  Postini is currently serving 35,000 business and 10 million users worldwide. None other than Google&#8217;s CEO, [...]
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CHICAGO/SAN FRANCISCO  - Shares of Google Inc. hit  a new high on Monday, giving the Web search leader a bigger  market value than rival Yahoo Inc., as traders who had shorted  the stock scrambled to buy back scarce shares after Google's  better-than-expected quarterly results last week.