Top MakeMyTrip shareholder to buy global travel search aggregator Skyscanner

Nasdaq-listed Ctrip.com International Ltd, which provides travel services including accommodation reservation, transportation ticketing, packaged tours and corporate travel management, has agreed to acquire global travel search site Skyscanner Holdings Ltd, for nearly £1.4 billion ($1.74 billion) i...

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Skyscanner to expand India presence, eyes 24M site visits

Global travel search portal Skyscanner is enhancing its presence in India, targeting business to business space apart from tapping customers with mobile applications to double the number of visits to its site from India to around 24 million in 2014. “We are undertaking marketing campaigns, spo...

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A carefully managed take-off

Gareth Williams looks every inch the web entrepreneur: black shirt, jeans and enviable tan. Skyscanner’s offices tick all the dotcom boxes too: prime location, wall-to-wall natural wood and smoked glass, video-game zone and a kitchen chock-full of free fruit and drinks. Except this is Edinburgh’...