ReleaseWire Connect

iXiGO.com, India’s leading travel search engine announced the appointment of Abhishek Sharma as Vice President, Operations & Product Platform. In this role, Mr. Sharma would be responsible for driving the company’s operations, product platform and content strategy as a part of its management team.

India’s leading travel search engine, iXiGO.com now powers the online travel search for the official website of Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (INIA), Malé, Maldives. As a part of the airport’s initiative to provide meaningful information to visitors flying to and from Maldives, the airport’s official website - now provides easy and quick access to the best flight and hotel options across the world with iXiGO’s award-winning platform.

iXiGO.com, India’s leading travel search engine announced the appointment of Ernesto Cohnen as Vice President, Products. In this role, Ernesto will be responsible for managing the product development lifecycle of iXiGO’s travel search, trip planning & mobile products.

iXiGO.com, India's leading travel search engine, today announced the launch of India’s first full-featured flights & hotels search application for Android devices. The iXiGO app is available globally on the Android market and can be downloaded and installed for free on any smartphone running the Android Operating System.

iXiGO.com, India's leading travel search engine, has announced an equity infusion from SAIF Partners, a leading Asian private equity & venture capital fund, and MakeMyTrip Limited, India’s leading online travel company, for a total cash consideration of $18.5 million across investment into the company and purchase of shares from existing shareholders.

First Indian travel site with a global flights & hotels search app for the iPhone

iXiGO.com has partnered with Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) for enabling a flights & hotels search engine on the IGIA website newdelhiairport.in . This partnership enables passengers visiting the airport's website to search for flights and hotels across 100+ travel websites and to choose and book directly on their preferred airline or hotel booking site for both domestic and international destinations.

iXiGO.com has been named a winner of the TiE-Lumis Partners Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards 2010 at the recently concluded Entrepreneurial Summit (TES) 2010, one of the largest entrepreneurship symposium in Asia, held at the Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi. Currently in its 3rd year, the Excellence Awards are aimed to not only recognize the idea but also the effort, innovation and passion of the entrepreneurs who have braved the odds and made a mark with their start-ups.

A recent in-depth independent study conducted by Iffort Consulting, a Noida-based leading web strategy and social media consulting firm, brings iXiGO.com to the limelight as one of the fastest growing Indian brands on Facebook, through its fan page presence.In addition to iXiGO.com, the study applauds the efforts of brands such as MTV-India (most popular brand) and Delhi Traffic Police (most active brand) on the medium.

NASSCOM recognizes iXiGO.com’s exponential growth and future potential