Darren Huston, booker-in-chief is spending big

The Amsterdam-based unit of Priceline Group that dominates the European online travel market. Darren Huston became CEO and president of Priceline Group itself, which has come from dot-com laughingstock to the fifth most-valuable United States Internet company—if one still really considers it a U.S. company, because 90 percent of its profits come from overseas, most of them from Booking.com.

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