Online and telephone business listings service JustDial is adding a range of services including online cab booking, movie ticket booking and doctor appointments booking as additional streams of revenue, among others, reports TechCircle. The plan to launch these services seems to be in line with the company recent launch of its online food delivery service, which was launched in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Ahemdabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Howrah, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Noida. On Online Cab Booking JustDial launching cab bookings is a particularly interesting one: it appears to be a popular category service for the company, and it certainly has its buyers: I was innundated with calls for booking a cab after calling JustDial, while in Bangalore a couple of months ago. So clearly, the company already has a client base, and could pose serious threat to the likes of TaxiForSure.com, Savaari Car Rental Pvt Ltd (raised Rs 5 Crore from Inventus Capital Partners), YourCabs.com (raised angel funding from Sprism Investment Pvt Ltd), Taxiguide (raised Rs 25 lakh in angel funding from Anand R P). On Movie Ticketing JustDial already has a movie listing service, here, with ratings and reviews. At present, 'buy tickets' button links to the website of the theater. That might change, once JustDial launches movie ticketing. The movie ticketing segment is a game that is different from that of online cabs, frankly. BookMyShow dominates that space, and also has its ERP in place with major theater chains. How JustDial will break this monopoly is beyond us, especially since others, including TicketMaster, haven't been able to…
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