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RSS ebookersebookers still struggling to find a buyer
News Online travel firm ebookers says it is still in talks with potential buyers for the company despite another high-profile suitor dropping out earlier this month. Rival online travel site Expedia's parent company... [14 Oct 2004]
ebookers holidaymakers: Do you have a Nectar card?
News Online travel agent ebookers has announced it is joining the Nectar card scheme - enabling its customers to take advantage of the UK's largest loyalty card programme.ebookers joins the likes of... [08 Sep 2004]
ebookers moves to ditch offline operations
News Travel website ebookers is pushing ahead with its strategy of driving most of its business online with a new service that allows broadband users to speak with sales staff through their PC. The free facility has been... [26 Jul 2004]
India diary: Epilogue... the final entry
Comment I toured the impressive high-tech campuses and call centres of both Indian and Western IT companies including ebookers, GE, Infosys and Wipro as well as saw the flip side of society in a slum village in Bangalore. [14 Jul 2004]
India diary: Day nine - Exploring New Delhi
Comment There are several big names here - one of which is online travel firm ebookers, who I'm here to visit - but the place doesn't look like much compared to the other gleaming high-tech campuses I've seen. [22 Jun 2004]
ebookers cuts costs with £7.8m BT deal
News BT has won a £7.8m deal with online travel agency ebookers to manage its UK and European call centres and wide area network (WAN). The five-year managed service deal will see BT handle 31 ebookers sites... [21 Jun 2004]
ebookers cuts European and Indian jobs as sales soar
News Online travel firm ebookers has announced it is to cut jobs in India and Europe, despite reporting a 47 per cent increase in sales for the first quarter of 2004. Dinesh Dhamija, chairman and CEO of... [10 May 2004]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: Time to travel
Comment It's isn't hard to see why general online spend is set to grow to a quarter of all retail sales in the near future - my household's second or third biggest expenditure every year goes to Hobermann at Lastminute.com or maybe the boys over... [13 Apr 2004]
ebookers leads web shopping boom
News A slew of reports out this week show that online retail is in rude health compared to its high street cousin, with web travel agent ebookers at the forefront of the technology-based turnover, reporting almost 70 per cent... [22 Mar 2004]
ebookers turns into offshore service provider
News Dot-com travel agent ebookers is planning to turn its offshore facilities in India into a revenue-generating third-party service provider that will sell customer service and back-office services to other companies. [14 Aug 2003]
Dot-coms have grown up - get used to it
Comment Today lastminute.com reported healthy results (though how it says its profits went up 141.2 per cent to £1.6m when the corresponding quarter a year earlier saw a £4m loss we don't know) and yesterday ebookers also bucked... [05 Aug 2003]
ebookers breathes new life into tourism with strong results
News Online travel agents ebookers has reported positive second quarter results - bucking the general downturn in the tourism industry which has been laid low by global unrest and the Sars virus. While the second quarter is... [04 Aug 2003]
India's skills shortage: A nice problem to have?
Comment Companies such as British Airways, ebookers, Oracle and Stepstone have already realised the potential savings to be gained from using cheaper labout, which is arguably just as skilled as their domestic workforces. [18 Feb 2003]
HSBC beefs up ecommerce offering with ClearCommerce
News ClearCommerce software is used by more than 50,000 businesses worldwide, including Apple Computer, B&Q, Boots, Barclaycard Merchant Services, ebookers, Napster, PETsMART and Sony Online. Banking giant HSBC has signed... [13 Jan 2003]
Low-cost Indian operation helps ebookers cut losses
News ebookers has reported narrowed losses in its latest financial quarter, and has credited much of that success to its low-cost back office operations which are based in India. The online travel agency recorded a loss of... [11 Nov 2002]
