Online travel agency MakeMyTrip is in the final stages of negotiations to acquire online bus ticketing company Travis Internet Pvt. Ltd, which operates Ticketvala.com, MediaNama has learned from reliable sources within ... Continue_Reading

Hyderabad based Ybrant Digital has launched a city-wide search platform called YReach. Though labeled as a “shopping and lifestyle search platform”, it can more accurately be called a local search ... Continue_Reading

India has quite an active online travel sector – over the past year it has seen a boycott by ticketing services over the low commissions paid by airlines and the ... Continue_Reading

Online travel agency Travelocity India has filed an FIR against Amit Taneja, former MD of Desiya and Stuart Crighton, CEO, Cleartrip for alleged criminal breach of trust, data theft, cheating, criminal misappropriation and ... Continue_Reading

While writing about the launch of BIGMaps Facebook application, I began thinking about how the integration between maps and other content can be improved: I use maps extensively, particularly when ... Continue_Reading

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC), the public sector enterprise (PSE) under the Ministry of Railways that handles the catering tourism and online booking from the website Irctc.co.in ... Continue_Reading

Update: MakeMyTrip is seeking support for OkTaTaByeBye. Update: What is that they say about people who live in glass houses? Via Twitter, Cleartrip informs us that MakeMyTrip owns Cleartrip.net.in. Unlike Ta ... Continue_Reading

Online Travel Agency Travelocity has acquired Indian online hotel aggregator TravelGuru, according to a company release. Travel news site TravelBizMonitor had reported the deal a couple of days ago. According to ... Continue_Reading

Bangalore-based Pilani Soft Labs, owner of Redbus, the website that offers bus ticket bookings and distributions, has closed its second round of funding from Inventus Capital Partners, Seed Fund and ... Continue_Reading

iScream from Ibibo A novel attempt at monetization from MIH and Ten Cent owned ibibo.com: the community which, since the beginning of 2008, has focused on building up user participation via ... Continue_Reading

(By Nikhil Pahwa and Preethi J) Under the aegis of Federation of Indian Airlines, three airlines – Spicejet, IndiGo and Kingfisher – are going to back a site for booking airline tickets ... Continue_Reading

Update: Hrush Bhatt, over at the Cleartrip blog, has explained the commission structure. We were awaiting a copy of the circular to analyse the changes, since we didn’t have the ... Continue_Reading