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| 07.05.2024 | Slow travel is the next big thing & Ahmedabad is among top 10 destinations | - |
| 30.04.2024 | Cleartrip CFO Aditya Agarwal steps down; Akshat Mishra takes over | Flipkart-owned travel booking firm Cleartrip’s chief financial officer (CFO) Aditya Agarwal will be stepping down from his role as owing to personal reasons.
His departure comes after former chief executive Ayyappan R also quit to start his... |
| 22.04.2024 | Ayodhya to Ujjain: Indians prefer spiritual trips over family, solo travel | - |
| 22.04.2024 | 95% of Indian travellers interested in sustainable travel: Report | - |
| 12.04.2024 | Hotel bookings, airfares on strong wicket as IPL fever catches on | - |
| 08.04.2024 | Flipkart Expands Travel Offerings With Bus Booking Services | SUMMARY
Flipkart will provide customers access to 10 lakh bus connections, covering over 25,000 routes across India
This expands on Flipkart’s existing flight and hotel booking services already offered through Flipkart Travel
This comes clo... |
| 31.03.2024 | Healthy, tough competition in Indian aviation market: IndiGo CEO Elbers | There is healthy and tough competition in the Indian market, which is also price sensitive, the country's largest airline IndiGo's chief Pieter Elbers said and emphasised that there is an enormous demand for travel.
At the helm of the airli... |
| 21.03.2024 | Long Weekend: Airfares, hotel rates shoot up ahead of Holi, Good Friday | As March draws to a close, two consecutive long weekend opportunities – Holi and Good Friday – are driving up hotel occupancy and airfares across major routes.
According to travel platform Cleartrip, hotel bookings have seen a 3.5 times spi... |
| 06.09.2022 | Flipkart launches Flipkart Hotels for domestic and international hotel booking | Advertisment
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| 18.07.2022 | Flipkart’s Cleartrip confirms data breach after hackers put data for sale | Cleartrip, one of the popular travel-booking platforms in India, has confirmed a data breach after hackers claimed to post the stolen data on the dark web.
Responding to a request for comment by TechCrunch based on a tip shared by a securit... |
| 16.04.2021 | Flipkart acquires online travel company Cleartrip in a distress sale | Indian e-commerce behemoth Flipkart has acquired Cleartrip, an online travel company for an undisclosed amount of money at a time when travel companies around the world are going through a rough patch due to travel restrictions since last y... |
| 13.09.2016 | Concur buys Hipmunk to add search to its travel and expense management platform | Some interesting consolidation afoot in the travel industry: Concur, the travel and expense platform that was acquired by SAP in 2014 for $8.3 billion, is today making its own acquisition: it is buying Hipmunk, the travel search startup.
Th... |
| 21.05.2015 | Facebook's Plan To Be The Compuserve Of Developing Nations Faces Mounting Worldwide Criticism | What began as some squabbling over the definition of net neutrality in India has evolved into a global public relations shit show for Facebook. As we’ve been discussing, India’s government has been trying to define net neutrality ahead of t... |
| 04.05.2015 | Internet.org Could Be a Privacy Nightmare | With Internet.org, Facebook is bringing a stripped-down version of the internet to people who can't afford to access it otherwise. The program is also set to bring the first privacy nightmare to the other side of the digital divide.
Interne... |
| 16.04.2015 | Mark Zuckerberg defends Internet.org after many companies leave the program | A vast majority of Indian citizens don’t give a hoot about topics like net neutrality. But things have changed dramatically over the past couple of weeks. Not only have many of them started to understand what net neutrality actually means -... |
| 16.04.2015 | Facebook, Google's Supposed Love Of Net Neutrality Notably Absent In India | With it now relatively clear that nobody will tolerate outright throttling or blocking of services, we’ve noted repeatedly how ISPs have turned their gaze toward other, more subtle ways of abusing their gatekeeper mono/duopolies on the net ... |
| 16.04.2015 | Facebook’s Internet.org sees defections over alleged harm to net neutrality | Facebook's Internet.org app for India.
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| 12.05.2014 | Concur Invests an Additional $5.4 Million in India Booking Site Cleartrip | Concur still has only a minority stake in Cleartrip, but clearly Concur’s $68.3 million total investment in Cleartrip shows that Concur considers Cleartrip and India as a strategic investment.
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| 29.04.2014 | Concur Increases Stake In India’s Cleartrip, Buys Out Sherpalo and Kleiner | Travel and expense management company Concur wants a bigger pie of the $3 billion Indian online travel market. The company has just concluded negotiations with Sherpalo Ventures and Kleiner Perkins to acquire additional stake in the Indian ... |
| 28.04.2014 | Cloud-based employee privilege platform Vantage Circle raises $200K in angel funding | Delhi-based Bargain Technologies Pvt Ltd, the company behind Vantage Circle, a platform that connects brands with employees of corporates, has raised Rs 1.2 crore (just under $200,000) from a group of six investors, led by Raghu Bathina of ... |
| 25.07.2013 | Concur Pushes Business Travel Technology with Venture Investments | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Since Concur busted out a $150 million corporate venture capital fund last November, the travel expense management company has backed nine startups—including three investments... |
| 18.04.2011 | Concur Partners With, Invests $40 Million In India's Online Travel Site Cleartrip | Concur, a publicly listed provider of travel and expense management solutions, is teaming up with Cleartrip, one of India’s leading online travel portals. The deal encompasses both a strategic marketing partnership and a $40 million investm... |
| 18.04.2011 | US-firm Concur invests $40 m in Cleartrip | US-based provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions, Concur announced on Monday that it has picked up a minority stake in Cleartrip with a strategic investment of $40 million. The investment is part of Concur's foray int... |
| 12.12.2006 | Indian travel site Cleartrip raises $8M from DAG Ventures — because DAG can react within 48 hours | DAG Ventures has led an $8 million second round of funding for Indian travel site Cleartrip, VentureWire reports today (sub required).
Together with its previous $3 million from Google founding investor Ram Shriram, and Kleiner Perkins, Cle... |
| 29.11.2006 | Travelguru, Indian travel portal, raises $15M amid lots of competition | Travelguru, an online travel portal in India, has won a commitment of $15 million from Battery Ventures and Sequoia Capital India for its second round of funding.
India has become a hot area, lately, especially in the travel industry, where... |
| 03.07.2006 | Ram Shriram: Things looking bubbly in India | Similar to Silicon Valley’s boom in the late 1990s, the Indian tech world is in full frenzy.
Ram Shriram, the founding investor in Google, started frequent travel to India last year to look for opportunties. He initially seemed close to Sil... |
| - | Cleartrip Stands Up For Net Neutrality, Leaves Facebook’s Internet.org | Image Credits
Just a day after Flipkart decided to finally end its discussions with Airtel and also opt out of the soon to be launched Airtel Zero Platform, today Cleartrip announced its decision to walk away from Internet.org, an initiativ... |
| - | Funding Galore: Startup Fundings Of The Week [June 20 – June 25]
Startups That Raised Funds This Week
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In a recent Union Cabinet meeting chaired by PM Narendra Modi, the government finally approved the INR 10, 000 Cr corpus of ‘Fund of Funds for Startups’ is in line with the ‘Startup India Action Plan’. The fund aims to generate... |
| - | MakeMyTrip To Raise $330 Mn From Naspers, Ctrip, Other Investors | Travel portal MakeMyTrip (MMT) is reportedly looking to raise $330 Mn from South African Internet and media conglomerate Naspers and Ctrip as well as other investors. The investment will be raised via share sale as per recent SEC filings of... |
| - | How MakeMyTrip And Ibibo Group Plan To Become Changemakers In Online Travel Space | January 2016.
China’s Ctrip.com International Ltd., a leading travel service provider, pours in about $180 Mn in MakeMyTrip (MMYT) through convertible bonds. The idea was clear – MMYT wanted to focus on further strengthening its leading mar... |
| - | 2016 In Review: Top 13 Startup Ecosystem Newsmakers Who Grabbed Headlines This Year | Valuations. Markdowns. Controversies. Firings and hirings. Layoffs. Shutdows. The alleged burst of the Indian startup bubble. And, of course, the great demonetisation drive!
2016 has seen it all. And we aren’t just talking about a heavenly ... |
| - | Why Indian Startups Like Advertising On TV | OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
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This article is contributed by Nitin Sharma, Principal and founding team member at Lightbox. He has the rare fortune of having been in VC as well as in startup teams, both in the US and i... |
| - | Goomo Raises $50 Mn From PE Firm Emerging India | Mumbai-based Goomo Holdings has raised $50 Mn funding from PE firm Emerging India. With this move, Emerging India will pick up a majority stake in the company.
Travel website Goomo.com was launched in March 2017. Goomo was formed by the mer... |
| - | What Mobile App Experts Have To Say About Mobile Growth Hacking- Recap From The Million Install Meetup | When it comes to an engaged community of users in the mobile app space, Bangalore will never disappoint you!
How do we know that? Well, we’ve just wrapped our second edition of the Million Install Meetup amongst an amazing and inquisitive b... |
| - | SAIF Partners Pulls Off 16x Return – Exits MakeMyTrip At $400 Mn | Every VC firm in the world longs to make a profit from the investments it makes in companies – the faith that it places in unknown ventures. The best possible scenario for VC investors is when the company it has backed debuts an IPO or, mak... |
