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Priceline will stay in Fairfield.


Fairfield County's largest dot-com operation, Priceline.com, will not make any changes to its corporate headquarters operation here, despite its ongoing restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics).  program. Last week, Priceline.com announced it would eliminate 48 jobs that were associated with the development of new business or products.

Brian Ek, a company spokesman, says, however, the company's restructuring program will have no impact on Priceline's workforce of approximately 400 at its corporate headquarters at 800 Connecticut Ave. Priceline.com, one of the higher profile dot-com operations in the US, thanks to advertisements featuring actor William Shatner <noinclude></noinclude>

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, occupies approximately 130,000 SF of space at the 403,000 SF property.

Priceline.com reported on Dec. 7 that it plans to postpone post·pone  
tr.v. post·poned, post·pon·ing, post·pones
1. To delay until a future time; put off. See Synonyms at defer1.

2. To place after in importance; subordinate.
 indefinitely in·def·i·nite  
adj.
Not definite, especially:
a. Unclear; vague.

b. Lacking precise limits: an indefinite leave of absence.

c.
 the development of business-to-business, term life insurance and cellular telephone service.

In addition, the company noted that it has discontinued dis·con·tin·ue  
v. dis·con·tin·ued, dis·con·tin·u·ing, dis·con·tin·ues

v.tr.
1. To stop doing or providing (something); end or abandon:
 discussions with Softbank E-Commerce Corp. to introduce Priceline.com's buyer driven e-commerce platform in Japan.

The company says it plans to focus on its core businesses centered around "Name Your Own Price" services on-line for airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, home finance, long distance phone service and new cars.

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Title Annotation:Priceline.com Inc.
Publication:Real Estate Weekly
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Dec 20, 2000
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