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SearchCommonwealth Games ticket sales yet to pick up04:26 PM, Aug 26, 2010"The tendency in India is to buy tickets closer to the event," said Sanjeev Mittal, who heads the ticketing division. "There have also been a lot of enquiries from abroad as well as from corporate sponsors. We are aiming to sell a total of 1.7 million tickets." Tickets have only been for sale online so far, and were expected to pick up rapidly once tickets were available over the counter and at call centers. However, Wednesday's start to... Following successful IPO, MakeMyTrip on hunt for acquisitions02:53 PM, Aug 20, 2010010, from a loss of $(5.6) million in the quarter ended June 30, 2009. • Revenue from its air ticketing business increased by 27.8% to $10 million in the quarter ended June 30, 2010 from $7.8 million in the quarter ended June 30, 2009, primarily due to a 63.6% growth in gross bookings to $146.5 million in the quarter ended June 30, 2010 from $89.5 million in the quarter ended June 30, 2009. The increase gross bookings was due to a 68.5... IRCTC eTicketing agents banned from using Tatkal for an hour02:05 AM, Jul 07, 2010ou log back in takes forever to load. Reason: Issue of tatkal tickets has started and our beloved eTicketing agents have squatted and are in the process of booking the tickets in bulk. These tickets will later be sold at a premium. This is a great inconvenience for passengers who are seeking just two or three tickets. Well that is going to change and the passengers might actually be able to open the site and book the tickets for Tatkal. IRCT... Standard Chartered Bank $150 Notes A Money Losing Business12:00 AM, Oct 03, 2009ed edition giveaways that aren't free by the way. They camp outside paying booths, stadiums, banks, ticketing offices or just about any place you can name. They defy the weather, and even taunts from other people. This is business they insist as they fire back at antagonists.Beijing Olympics offered one last year and for those who grabbed them, it was a money making bonanza. This time, as Standard Chartered Bank celebrated 150 years of operation ... Fund raising goes mobile – ISKCON ties up with ATOM12:00 AM, Aug 10, 2009ISKCON has tied up with ATOM a mobile payment company for fund raising. We have seen fund raising take several forms. The best one so far is the door-to-door service. That is a very resource intensive process. With new technologies comes new ways of doing the old things. International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) is targeting 400 million mobile users to raise funds for its mid-day meal scheme. ISKCON has tied up with ATOM... One97 gets into mobile commerce with its PayTM12:00 AM, Jul 12, 2009the highest security standards on hand, PayTM can be used for various other transactions like Movie Ticketing, Travel Booking, Flower Delivery, Movie Rental Tele-shopping, Toll Plaza Card, Recharge, Insurance Premiums, Movie/Music Purchase, said the company. (Telecom Tiger) Nothing new or radical in this service as these services are being offered by the companies listed above. There could be few differentiators which can make One97 s... India telecom juggernaut shows no signs of respite. And why should it?12:00 AM, Jun 26, 2009There is no respite for the growth of Indian telecom at least for the next 5 years. I sound as if that is a bad thing. As we all know, it is not a bad thing but a fantastic thing to have. We have not witnessed something like this in the past. If IT has led us this far, the baton will be passed on to Telecom. Telecom will lead the charge for the next 5 years. There can be other industries like BioTech and of course IT which can compet... India telecom juggernaut shows no signs of respite. And why should it?12:00 AM, Jun 26, 2009There is no respite for the growth of Indian telecom at least for the next 5 years. I sound as if that is a bad thing. As we all know, it is not a bad thing but a fantastic thing to have. We have not witnessed something like this in the past. If IT has led us this far, the baton will be passed on to Telecom. Telecom will lead the charge for the next 5 years. There can be other industries like BioTech and of course IT which can compet... Thanong on the Buses12:08 AM, Jun 04, 2009ently losing money now, what is their cost structure? *Atiya the other day wanted to remove the e-ticketing and GPS options (BP agrees with her over the leasing though) as she doesn't think they are necessary. If anything these are two advantages of the system. The full-day 30 baht sounds interesting as one purchase a day would suffice (you can probably get daily, weekly, or monthly tickets as well - then much easier for students and senior cit... Railway information is just an SMS away - SMS rail to 13912:00 AM, Jun 04, 2009IRCTC has launched railway information on SMS. This makes our lives way easier. There was a search option on your mobile provided by Google. That search option has the capability to search for the PNR status by sending an SMS. This feature from IRCTC is way better. you can do a lot more things with it. You just have to remember some syntax to achieve this. These are the services that are available via SMS : PNR Enquiry Fare Enquiry Current... KingFisher’s mobile ticketing solution King Mobile – Only on ngPay12:00 AM, May 28, 2009Yes the King of good times is back and this time on mobile. King Fisher the airliner of the flamboyant Vijay Mallya is now on mobile. Consumers can book King Fisher tickets on mobile. This service is available only on ngpay, which is the mobile platform for many services. Ngpay comes from JiGrahak Mobility Solutions (P) Ltd. Booking air tickets will be no different from booking train tickets. This is something – as per me – most of us has... Vodafone ties up with OnMobile for VAS in 30 countries12:00 AM, Mar 29, 2009contests, phone backup, tele-voting, mobile social networking, mobile advertising,M-Commerce movie ticketing, bill payment and pre-paid recharge. Content Owners –> Content Aggregators –> Application Service providers –> Platform providers –>Mobile Operators In the supply chain of VAS given above, OnMobile operates as a content aggregator, application service provider and platform provider. Just to signify th... Hong Kong and Macau Concerts12:00 AM, Sep 22, 2008In case you are in the mood for live entertainment, there are great concerts scheduled in Hong Kong in the next several weeks.Billy Joel is coming to Hong Kong on 12 November at AsiaWorld-Arena. Ticket prices are HK$480, HK$880 and HK$1,280.Fahrenheit will grace the same venue on 26-27 September with ticket prices at HK$480; HK$380; HK$280; HK$180.Kylie Minogue is in Hong Kong for a concert on 27 November at AsiaWorld-Arena; ticket prices at HK$3... And let the real games begin…12:00 AM, Jul 25, 2008nal story here at the ever vigilant Shanghaiist: HK reporter and cameraman taken away after Olympic ticketing kerffufle AJ report on Beijing: [youtube I3vOqKPLzKc] ... VENGEANCE SHALL BY MINE, NOT THINE12:00 AM, Apr 03, 2008ted for parking in a pedestrian crossing, Melbourne lawyer Jeremy Sear seeks revenge by posting the ticketing officer's name, photo and by calling him a “vindictive twerp”, a “petty tyrant”, a “prick” and an “arsehole”. Unmoved by the law-breaking (he admits the offence) lawyer's obvious distress, right-wingers Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt are, well, somewhat critical of Sear's name-and-shame tactic. Having thought about it Sear even... |