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Niki.ai is an artificial intelligence firm founded by four friends from IIT Kharagpur- Sachin Jaiswal, Nitin Babel, Shishir Modi and Keshav Prawasi. The startup is bringing conversational commerce to a wide range of services like travel, recharge, utility bill payments and food ordering. Founded in March 2015 and funded by industry heavyweights like Ratan Tata and […]

Tamil Nadu Omni Bus Owners Association president A Afzal told TOI, “GST will not affect bus fares in a big way. There are no service charge for non-air-conditioned (A/C) buses anyway. For A/C buses, service charge is lower by 1% under GST”. Members affiliated to the association operate around 1,000 buses across the state, of

Chennai: With the holiday season witnessing an unusual surge in bus travellers to neighbouring states, travel agencies complain that a couple of private bus operators are hiking ticket prices to exorbitant levels. A travel agent based at Egmore says that for the last five days certain private travel operators have increased prices by 35 to 40

Mallika Srinivasan, CEO, Tractors and Farm Equipment Ltd, received a Lifetime Entrepreneur Achievement Award from TiE Chennai for steering the company to its position as the world’s third-largest tractor manufacturer. S.S. Badrinath, Founder, Sankara Nethralaya, and winner of last year’s Lifetime Achievement Award, gave the award to Srinivasan at TiECON Chennai 2013. In her acceptance

Usually, Ukira Pandian will arrive at Madurai Mattuthavani bus stand at 4.30 a.m. to pick up his daughter. But, nowadays, he just arrives a few minutes before the arrival of Chennai-Madurai bus, as he keeps tracking the movement of the bus through a mobile app. On the lines of Ola and Uber, a Chennai-based start-up

After demonetisation, online bus-ticketing platforms are enhancing their value-added services as more travellers are expected to go cashless while buying bus tickets. Bus travel marketplaces such as Travelyaari, TicketGoose and redBus are trying out new products and services as cashless bus travel gains acceptance, making it a more organised business post demonetisation. “As bus travel

TicketGoose.com, a bus ticketing portal, plans to raise Rs. 75 crore to Rs. 100 crore by June this year. Company President and Co-founder Karthi Easwaramoorthy told The Hinduhere on Wednesday that the company was talking to investors. “The funds will come through venture capitalists mainly,” he said. It raised Rs. 25 crore from Indventure LLC in

Online bus ticketing service Ticketgoose, run by Chennai-based Efficsys Infotech India Pvt Ltd, has secured Rs 3 crore ($560,000) from angel investor and former Gums India CEO R Narayanan and a group of other investors based in the US. The Chennai-based startup, which operates from Bangalore and Hyderabad, will use a major chunk of the money

CHENNAI: Online bus ticketing startup ticketgoose.com has raised its second round of funds through crowdfunding, a concept where a group of investors pool in funds to invest in a company. The startup has raised Rs 24 crore from Indventure, a US-based crowdfunding platform. The company used its first round of funding of Rs 6 crore (also

TicketGoose’s partnership with Niki aims to enable customers to book bus tickets online through conversing with Niki on the TicketGoose mobile app Niki.ai, a start-up focused on Artificial Intelligence has partnered with online bus ticketing company TicketGoose to provide a simplified and convenient bus ticket booking experience with the launch of an intuitive chatbot. This partnership is