iXiGO, the online travel search engine has launched a mobile app called ‘On the Way’ for android devices. The app enables road travelers to access relevant information on all useful and interesting stoppages along their route. The free app searches and aggregates travel information across travel sites and gives travelers access to information on tourist destinations, places to visit,...

Online trip advisor iXiGo has launched  a customized  Android  app for train search. Dubbed as ‘Indian Rail and Trains‘ the app provides real-time information for all Indian Railway trains. Users can search trains by destinations or train numbers. The app also shows train routes & timings, real-time seat availability status for all journey classes and fares. Built completely...

iXiGO, the online trip advisor, has announced the launch of their customized app for Windows 8 users. The app is free, and is aimed at fostering the rising and transgressing advent of Windows 8 into becoming a prominent OS in Indian market. Windows 8 has been the much talked about OS, ever since it launched its beta version for user feedback and testing the bugs that mar the fresh take. The news has...

iXiGO.com, one of India’s leading travel search engine player has been jointly acquired by SAIF Partners and Makemytrip for a total cash consideration of $18.5 million and to co-own 76.6% from existing share holders. Post this transaction, SAIF Partners will hold 56.7% while MakeMyTrip would own 19.9% respectively. Mr. Aloke Bajpai, Founder-CEO of iXiGO.com commented , “We are excited about...

It is always great to hear about the IITs taking a hands on approach to entrepreneurship.  IIT Kanpur is organizing a 2 day event, E-summit ’11. In their own words, the purpose of this event is to ‘foster entrepreneurial initiatives and activities in campus thus fulfilling IIT Kanpur’s mandate of nurturing India’s future technopreneurs‘. When : 8th and 9th of January. Where...

In a new win for iXiGo, the company is now powering the travel search on the official websites for the Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) and the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport of Hyderabad. This will definitely help the company to reach out to a larger audience. This move is in conformance with the views Aloke Bajpai, founder of iXiGo outlined in an online interview last...

The year started with some bad news for OTA’s as the economy was still reeling under the pressure of recession and 26/11 shock of 2008. We interviewed Deep Kalra of Makemytrip early this year on his views about the recession driven economy. OTA’s started bolstering non air revenue streams like bus travel as well as train travel and also started looking at ad revenue and alternative payments...

iXiGO has announced its partnership with Air Valid to display user generated airline ratings on its International flight search results. This tie-up will help users of flight search engine to know the quality ratings of International airlines. Air Valid has an international presence with dedicated portals for many regions. It also has aggregation data for many international airlines around the...

I am sure you’ve done this before while street shopping – Bargain. Russell Peters once said that it’s in the blood of all Indians to bargain wherever they go shopping. Regardless of the country, irrespective of what they’re buying, getting the best deal becomes their eternal right. Well, that’s Peters’ opinion. But, to some extent it holds some truth, doesn’t...

The year 2008 can be termed as the year of online travel as this space has seen immense traction all throughout the year. Whether it was launching of discounted travel, expansions, acquisitions, investments, aggregation or even shut down the online travel space has seen it all during this year. It would be an understatement to say that 2008 was an eventful year for online travel. The main players in...