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Expedia's Turnaround Under Ariane Gorin Showed Momentum in 2025 "Expedia hasn't had this degree of mojo for many years. Can Gorin and team keep it going? Expedia Group appears to be gaining competitive momentum, with stronger room night growth and improving marketing efficiency in 2025, according to a BTIG research note published Tuesday. Based on its performance checks, BTIG expects Expedia to report fourth-quarter results showing high-single-digit room night growth, mid-single-digit growth in its consumer segment, and EBITDA margin expansion. The firm also said Expedia is getting more leverage from its marketing spend — particularly in B2C"

Expedia's Turnaround Under Ariane Gorin Showed Momentum in 2025

Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin Bets on Global Markets as US Travel Demand Slows
https://fluxbulletin.com/expedia-ceo-ariane-gorin-bets-on-global-markets-as-us-travel-demand-slows/

France acknowledges the loss of an Indian Rafale, per CNN. According to the images circulating, which appear to be original, it may have been the first of 36 Rafale that entered service in the Indian air force. Next question is whether it was hit by a Chinese PL-15 missile.

The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now Europe’s very real problems don’t look so bad by comparison

The thing about Europe is it doesn't invest enough in defence. But nor does it joke about invading neighbours.

The thing about Europe is its economy is ailing. But Europeans have no concept of "medical bankruptcy".

My take this week on the truly free continent

www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

In the Normandy sunshine, the British Normandy Memorial looks radiant. What’s more, the Giants are back for the summer! The 1,475 figures movingly evoke all those killed just on DDay alone. Many thanks to Standing with Giants! Do go if you can. Plus the shop and café reopens on 12 April.

Navarro clearly doesn’t understand how VAT works

Absolutely chilling stuff

An eye opener for many, I suspect (even if the US has provided peerless C4ISR)

DOGE Is the Deep State A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!

After years of alarm over unelected bureaucrats pulling the strings, what better example can you find than this moment the US government is in? DOGE is the thing it claims to fear the most. Elon Musk is the problem he purportedly wants to solve.

Doge *is* the Deep State. @brbarrett.bsky.social:

Betting on Female CEOs: 5 Stocks to Buy This Women's Day This Women's Day, celebrate female leadership. Invest in GM, LUMN, PCG, EXPE and C, which are women-led companies driving growth, innovation and returns.

www.zacks.com/stock/news/2...

Useful explainer on extending the 🇫🇷 and 🇬🇧 umbrella, by my colleague @shashj.bsky.social…last year

Full story on whether Europe can defend itself without the US (after
Munich 2024):

www.economist.com/briefing/202...

It is literally going worse by the day. All the ads are Maga. Same for the discover tab

Quite amazing for the American VP to be giving lessons on liberty to Europeans while his boss bans the Associated Press from news briefings because it calls the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name.

Musk makes sweeping claims about federal corruption, without providing evidence. The billionaire, whose federal cost-cutting team has been operating in secrecy, asserted that he had uncovered waste and fraud across the bureaucracy, without providing evidence.

This is just insane and you all know that, right? Unelected, unfettered, untouchable, unsupported by facts and completely without transparency: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Percentage of women running Fortune 500 companies holds at 10.4% SAIC CEO Toni Townes Whitley, Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin, and JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty are three of the women who run companies on this year's Fortune 500 list. Whitley and Gorin: Courtesy of SAIC and Expedia; Geraghty: Chris Ratcliffe—Getty Images

Percentage of women running Fortune 500 companies holds at 10.4%

SAIC CEO Toni Townes Whitley, Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin, and JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty are three of the women who run companies on this year's Fortune 500 list. Whitley and Gorin: Courtesy of SAIC and Expedia; Geraghty: Chris…

RFK Jr. is a massive public health threat Dems like Jared Polis shouldn't pretend pretend otherwise.

New in PN: RFK Jr. is a massive public health threat

"Kennedy has articulated a vision that will, if enacted, lead to the deaths of untold numbers of people, many of whom have not even been born. It's difficult to overstate the long-term danger he poses."

I didn’t know you could sue companies for not buying your product. I’ll keep that in mind

Wishful thinking.

The myth of the second chance The self-help industry suggests all mistakes in life are retrievable. Middle age teaches us otherwise

The myth of the second chance

https://on.ft.com/3Ujy6la

Expedia says CEO Peter Kern will step down after four years in the role and names its president for business, Ariane Gorin, as CEO, effective May 13, 2024 (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

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