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Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) is an Internet travel agency based in Bellevue, Washington, USA. It books airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages, and various attractions and services via the World Wide Web and telephone travel agents. Jump to: navigation, search NASDAQ MarketSite (Times Square, New York City) at night NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is a U.S. electronic stock exchange. ... A travel agency is a store where individuals or families go to buy travel packages. ... Jump to: navigation, search Location Location of Bellevue within King County, Washington, and King County within Washington. ... Jump to: navigation, search A Boeing 747-400 belonging to Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the UKs largest airlines. ... Jump to: navigation, search A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging, usually on a short-term basis and especially for tourists. ... Jump to: navigation, search A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ... Jump to: navigation, search Graphic representation of the World Wide Web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW, W3, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). ...

Founded as a division of Microsoft in 1996, Expedia was spun off in 1999, and was purchased by USA Networks in 2001 (USA changed its name to InterActiveCorp in 2003). IAC spun off its travel group of businesses under the Expedia name in August 2005, including Expedia, Expedia Corporate Travel, Hotels.com, and Hotwire.com. Jump to: navigation, search Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) (HKSE: 4338) is the worlds largest software company, with global annual sales in the tens of billions of US dollars and nearly 60,000 employees in more than 90 countries. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1999(MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Jump to: navigation, search USA Networks new logo was implemented on July 8, 2005 as part of the networks 25th anniversary rebranding campaign. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI) is an American conglomerate with interests in electronic retailing, Internet and interactive media, local media services, online personals, real estate and financial services. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hotels. ...

Expedia has online points of sale servicing customers in The United States, Canada, The United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy. Its primary competitors are Travelocity and Orbitz. For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and a member of the European Union. ... Travelocity is an online travel agency operated by Travelocity. ... Jump to: navigation, search Orbitz, Inc. ...

Jingle

They have a well known jingle that they play at the end of every commercial that just consists of a singing of the name expedia dot com, it is performed by Matt Mahaffey and his rock band Self. In Modern Times, a Jingle can be a Radio Stations on air musical or spoken identity. ... Matt Mahaffey is the primary member of the Murfreesboro, Tennessee power pop band Self and has worked as a producer with various artists. ... Jump to: navigation, search Rock group (or later rock band) is a generic name to describe a group of musicians specializing in a particular form of electronically amplified music. ... Self is a rock band that is mostly the brainchild of one Matt Mahaffey from Murfreesboro, Tennessee. ...

Server

The Expedia site runs on Microsoft Windows servers with IIS 6.0 and uses ASP Jump to: navigation, search Microsoft Windows is a range of operating environments and operating systems for personal computers and servers. ... IIS (Microsoft Internet Information Services or Server) is a set of Internet based services for Windows machines. ... Asp is an archaic term for a number of species of poisonous snake that live in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. ...

External links

• Expedia, Inc.
• Expedia.com
  • World atlas, for Canada, the USA, and Europe to street level.
  • Expedia Corporate Travel
• Expedia.ca Canada Site
• Expedia.co.uk UK Site
• Hotwire.com
• Hotels.com