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webMethods Buys Its Way to Growth (Motley Fool via Yahoo! Finance)
With its recent acquisition, the software maker may have found something its customers are looking for.

Frequent fliers rack up points by shopping (USA Today)
Travel websites aren't just for booking flights and rooms anymore. Airlines and hotels are teaming with retailers to give bonuses in mileage credits and loyalty points to travelers who buy merchandise while booking travel at their websites.

Michelle Yablin Silverman Joins Hotel Booking Solutions (Hospitality Net)
ATLANTA ? Hotel Booking Solutions Incorporated (HBSI) has named veteran hospitality professional Michelle Yablin Silverman as Director of Account Management for both hotel and sales distribution channel customers.

Spanking New Space (Cincinnati CityBeat)
It's a fall Friday night in Covington, and a couple hundred curious onlookers watch as a man clad in black leather invites a somewhat shy woman and then a very shy man on stage to dance with him.

webMethods Buys Its Way to Growth (The Motley Fool via Yahoo! News)
Software company webMethods (Nasdaq: WEBM - News) has been a pioneer in software-oriented architecture (SOA). It has also bulked up its offerings in SOA with a number of acquisitions. The latest purchase, a $38 million deal for privately held Infravio, may help webMethods fill a gap in its product line and boost its sagging license revenues.

webMethods Buys Its Way to Growth (The Motley Fool)
Software company webMethods (Nasdaq: WEBM) has been a pioneer in software-oriented architecture (SOA). It has also bulked up its offerings in SOA with a number of acquisitions.

Virgin Atlantic targets online growth (Computing.co.uk)
Dave Friedlos, Computing , Tuesday 12 September 2006 at 00:00:00 Web site upgrade to improve online booking process Virgin Atlantic has enhanced its web site, installing an upgraded booking engine, as it seeks to meet aggressive annual growth targets of 15 per cent for web site bookings.... > Read the full article

HRG introduces web-based portal in the UK (eyefortravel.com)
Designed to simplify transactions and provide convenience for the traveller, travel booker and travel manager, the HRG Portal includes an integrated travel and expense management tool.

Loose accounting sullies options (Orange County Register)
Stock options get employees ? from the boardroom to the mailroom ? thinking and profiting like their shareholders. What investor can argue with that? Yet the unfolding options scandal shows how a perk with foggy accounting can be abused.