 Hailed by Forbes magazine as the "New Age Edison," revolutionary entrepreneur and inventor of Netcentric business solutions, Jay Walker, is transforming the digital future of business. Time magazine ranked this founder of Priceline.com, among the top 25 most influential business leaders in the digital age, an honor he shares with luminaries such as Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and Steve Jobs. Jay Walker's intellectual property laboratory, Walker Digital, is consistently inventing new technology and has more than 200 patents pending with over a dozen patents issued. "Walker Digital is about reengineering the DNA of the future of business. What we hope is that a group of thoughtful people can together reinvent whole sectors of the global economy...and we can own those inventions," says Mr. Walker. He knows that his technology innovations mean big business opportunities, and he has established several tech companies that employ his digital inventions. The most widely known of Mr. Walker's companies is Priceline.com, the name-your-price Internet business that sells airline tickets, cars, hotel rooms and home mortgages. Priceline.com is well loved by consumers and Wall Street alike, and Mr. Walker's laboratory is not resting on the success of one single company. Like Edison , Jay Walker is interested in the ideas of invention, the next big Internet solution to emerge from his factory of ideas. Jay Walker, Entrepreneur, Inventor, and "New Age Edison" continues to create companies that change the way business is done.
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