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While the economy has yet to fully recover, people are at least more willing to open up their wallets for some summer fun this year.

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In a fiercely competitive marketplace, online travel agency Orbitz Worldwide Inc.

General Motors news includes a new use for a facility in England, and CEO Akerson's plans for a better position for his company's stock.

Ohio has this reputation of being flat, cornfield-crazy nothingness: the kind of place people drive through... only to get somewhere else.

Elicit, a Chicago-based startup that makes technology to improve searching within websites, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.5 million in its first round of venture capital funding.

Every time I travel, I never leave home without my computer, iPhone, iPod and all the required adapters and cable hookups necessary to stay connected and full of battery power.

Readers: This is the fourth post from Orbitz Worldwide CEO Barney Harford, who is guest blogging this week.

Prior to joining Edo, Sippel served as vice president of engineering and vice president of product strategy at Orbitz Worldwide.

Priceline.com Inc., the biggest U.S. online travel agency by market value, fell after forecasting second-quarter earnings that trailed analysts' estimates.

With our focus on the hotel business, we were particularly interested in how travel shoppers were looking for hotels this summer.

Readers : Hotel Check-In today brings back its guest-CEO series, with a twist. Instead of inviting only hotel brand CEOs to blog in this space, I'll also invite CEOs from the broader travel space starting with Orbitz Worldwide CEO Barney Harford.

Orbitz Jumps Into Election Year Fray and Vows to Give Americans the Vacation They Deserve with New Website Design and Ad Campaign CHICAGO, May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With six months to election day, online travel leader Orbitz.com today said that Americans must come to grips with balancing work and vacation and said it will lead the charge to get ... (more)

In a big campaign that is to begin on Monday, Orbitz will urge consumers to "Take vacation back." The television, print, online, social and other ads will feature a device of an oversize flag bearing the Orbitz logo.

The firm currently has a "buy" rating on the stock. Shares of Orbitz Worldwide opened at 4.07 on Friday.

Orbitz Worldwide narrowed its loss in the first quarter as the online travel agency reported growth in its European-focused travel business and stronger demand for hotel and vacation packages.Shares were up 4.6 percent to $4.08 shortly after market open as the loss came in lighter than Wall Street analysts expected.The company said Thursday that ... (more)

's stock had its "neutral" rating reaffirmed by research analysts at Nomura in a report released on Wednesday.

Online travel booker Orbitz Worldwide has a database called EFX, which doesn't sound too interesting until you know it stands for "every friggin' X." It means the company examines every variable, or X, of how visitors to Orbitz and the company's other travel-booking sites behave.

Expedia and Priceline have been leading the pack this year, with 45% and 61% gains respectively.

CHICAGO, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 2nd Orbitz CEO Barney Harford will speak about big data, mobile and the travel industry before an expected audience of several hundred business leaders at an Executives' Club of Chicago breakfast.