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Check, please: Priceline buys OpenTable for $2.6B

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Published June 13, 2014 10:28pm ET
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Check, please: Priceline buys OpenTable for $2.6B
FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 2, 2000, file photo, Priceline.com headquarters is shown, in Norwalk, Conn. Priceline is buying online restaurant reservation company OpenTable for $2.6 billion. The deal should help Priceline, the online travel company, branch out into a new business segment. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey, File) | Douglas Healey

NEW YORK (AP) — Priceline has negotiated a $2.6 billion entree into the restaurant business.

The global travel booking king announced Friday it is acquiring OpenTable Inc. in a deal that would put Priceline into a new business doing for restaurant reservations much what it does for hotel bookings.

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