Next acquisition will be a mobile tech company, says Dhruv Shringi of Yatra.com

Gurgaon-based OTA player Yatra.com has been quite active in terms of acquisition, lapping up three companies in the span of one year. Now Dhruv Shringi, Yatra’s co-founder and CEO, says the company will be looking at a mobile technology firm when it opts for a fourth acquisition. Speaking at VCCi...

Anand Rai

iTraveller.com customises your vacation planning, but can it be a trail blazer?

While everyone loves a nice vacation, getting the entire trip in order actually takes a lot more effort than meets the eye. You have to sit with travel agents and decide on every aspect of the trip, which can become tiresome. An alternative is to simply select from one of the available vacation pack...

Anand Rai, Nandana Das & Sonam Gulati

Digirati: Top 25 powerful people in Indian digital business

They provide smart insights into hot trends and create strategies that redefine businesses. They innovate opportunities for themselves and others – writing some success stories that inspire awe. Meet the homegrown Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerbergs and Warren Buffetts who have made waves in the digital ...

Anand Rai

After MakeMyTrip, Yatra & Goibibo, Via Also Withdraws Its ‘Opaque Fare’ Scheme

Via.com has joined other OTAs and pulled out the ‘opaque fare scheme’ which allowed users to buy air tickets at basket sale prices. Via had launched the Mera Trip @ Mera Price (MTMP) service four months ago which allowed customers to quote or specify the price they were prepared to pay for a non...

Anand Rai

Actor Salman Khan Picks Around 5% Stake In Yatra.com; Is This A Growing Trend In Bollywood

Bollywood actor Salman Khan has invested an undisclosed amount in Gurgaon-based online travel company Yatra.com picking up a little less than 5 per cent stake in the company, according to Economic Times. As part of the multi-layered deal, he has also become the brand ambassador of Yatra and will be ...

Sonam Gulati

Former Yatra.com COO Raja Natesan Switches To TUI India

Raja Natesan who had quit his position as COO of  Yatra.com few months back, has joined TUI Travel India, a part of TUI Travel PLC – an international leisure travel group, as its COO. Although he quit Yatra.com last August, the announcement of his new position at TUI has come only today. Nate...

Anand Rai

Yatra Acquires Common Investor-backed Buzzintown

Online travel services company Yatra has acquired Buzzintown, a website that provides information on deals and events, according to India Digital Review, which quoted the company founder and CEO Amitabh Saran. As of now, financial details of the deal are not available but we will update once we get ...

Nandana Das

Top 10 Deals In Internet & Mobile Space In 2011

The year 2011 may go down in history as a significant period that has witnessed some dynamic growth in the Internet business space – be it the investor frenzy in backing e-commerce start-ups, talk-of-the-town valuations (read: Flipkart courting financial investors with $1 billion tag), the biggest...

Anand Rai

Yatra.com Launches Deals Section: What’s On Offer?

Just yesterday we got a promotional email from Yatra.com that talked about a newly launched Travel Deals web site and how it is and we quote “a platform for the most lucrative and cost saving deals.” But Yatra.com has always been providing offers and discounts on travel packages hence we wondere...

Preethi J

Enabling Budget Stays At Farthest Corners Of India: Stayzilla

Backpackers keen to visit the far-off eastern Indian city of Tawang or the green valleys of Pollachi or Kargil, may very well struggle to find suitable accommodation, in spite of the vast number of online booking sites and aggregators doing brisk business across the country. While large websites lik...