Makemytrip & SAIF Acquire Majority Stake In iXiGo

by | posted: August 10, 2011
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...
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IIT Kanpur Organizing E-Summit ’11 To Foster Entrepreneurship

by | posted: January 6, 2011
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...
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iXiGo Powers Flight Search On New Delhi And Hyderabad Airport Websites

by | posted: July 2, 2010
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...
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Recap 2009: Online Travel

by | posted: December 29, 2009
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...
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iXiGO Partners With Air Valid For User-Generated Ratings In Flight Searches

by | posted: October 28, 2009
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...
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Pricebolo Ties Up With Ixigo – Price Comparison Comes To Travel Tickets

by | posted: October 23, 2009
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...
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Recap 2008: Online Travel

by | posted: December 31, 2008
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,...
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The Indian OTA Nose Dive – Where Is The Value Beyond The Ticket?

by | posted: December 8, 2008
We had recently taken a look at the state of affairs in the Online Travel scene and concluded that a slowdown was eminent. Recently there was a lot of heart burn and more on the fact that major airlines...
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iXiGo Now To Power Flight Search & Booking On TravelGuru.com

by | posted: November 24, 2008
Travelguru.com which initially started as a flight booking platform but later repositioned its core focus from Flights to hotel booking has now taken a step futher to ‘cut costs’ and further...
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‘We are generating 10 crores worth transactions each month’ – Aloke Bajpai – iXiGo.com

by | posted: October 21, 2008
We had recently covered iXiGo.com’s strategy of going mobile and essentially eliminating the OTA with their new mobile click to call feature. We caught up with Aloke Bajpai of iXiGo.com to know more...
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NDTV Convergence Ties Up with iXiGo.com & CareerBuilder India – To Power NDTVTravels.com & NDTVJobs.com

by | posted: October 14, 2008
NDTV iXiGo Tie Up NDTV Convergence has tied up with iXiGo to power their travel portal NDTVTravels.com. This isn’t the first time NDTV has gone the tie up mode for content for its verticals even...
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iXiGo Launches Hotel Search

by | posted: April 9, 2008
iXiGO.com which recently got funded has launched hotel search. Hotels has been a domain which first came into focus when travelguru shifted its focus from being a flight booking engine to a hotel booking...
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iXiGo.com Gets Funding From Singapore Based Fund!

by | posted: February 20, 2008
I first came across iXiGo at the first proto.in event (which im a part of) way back in January 2007. I remember meeting Aloke and Dharmendra the founders of iXiGo and mentioning to them that I liked their...
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Indian Companies Penetrate The Red Herring Global 200!

by | posted: November 15, 2007
We had blogged about the Asia top 100 emerging companies list which was announced by red herring in August 2007. Now Red Herring has gone ahead and announced the global 200 list which will further be short...
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IndoFlights.com – A Promising Flight Comparison Engine!

by | posted: November 15, 2007
Till now we have covered 2 travel search engines of WATBlog. They have been iXiGo.com which also got shortlisted in the Red Herring Global 100 Finalists and Zoomtra which is promoted by Smile Studio which...
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Is SMS alerts the way to go for Internet Players?

by | posted: July 18, 2007
We have recently blogged about how sms is the highest revenue generator in mobile VAS space and though the question of internet players heavily leveraging sms to reach to a larger audience might...
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