Travelocity Files FIR against Cleartrip for Data Theft
Travelocity India has accused Cleartrip of partnering with Desiya officials to get hold of Travelocity’s proprietary information and has filed a FIR in Gurgaon.
Travelguru acquired Desiya in 2007 and was later acquired by Travelocity in September of 2009. In the FIR, Travelocity has even named Desiya employees (MD Amit Taneja, Regional Manager (North) Sanjeet Singh and travel consultant Imran Ansari) for passing on the data to Cleartrip (source).
The FIR has charged Desiya employees for sharing the data related to hotel business model, projections and proprietary information to Cleartrip CEO, Stuart Crighton,which Cleartrip has termed baseless and misconceived.
Interesting development – expect more of such cases to come out in public – I know of an OTA that used to copy data from a travel startup website, but refused to partner with them for the same data! In another case, a startup threatened a biggie with a law suit (they showed enough proof that the biggie was copying data) and bagged a deal from them!
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hmmmm, mudslinging in the air space..!
Just a publicity stunt !
Ashish,
Some name on who did the data stealing would be nice
Anyhow, it would be interesting to see if this is just a publicity stunt.
Have you ever covered this under start up strategies??
My boss always says, the day we get sued by Infosys, we’ve arrived in life……
that is what some of my friends say as well…
“if we get sued, we are a successful startup..”
don’t know if that is the right approach….
Asish
Well as for my knowledge how many companies need to be in court for data theft, insurance people call with out knowing our name to sell insurance products, company people call to sell some other thing and they say that they got our number from other third party
In our country as thefting a house is easy the same the data is also. Where people work for money and people run for money and people die for money
I am not saying that this data theft by cleartrip is true but in this country past employees for money sake can sell the data to anybody who can give them the best amount
Let me know if i am right or wrong on this
Sai Pothuri
sai pothuri