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India: Want to book a cheap cab ride in one of India's smaller cities or towns, where the Ola and Uber app don;t function? Think TukTuk Ride.
BENGALURU: Southeast Asia's largest ride-hailing app Grab is expanding the scope of its India engineering team to include geomapping and data science as ...
Ola Cabs have been banned in Bengaluru for next 6 months, and this is indeed shocking. Find out the real reason why this ban was announced.
Indian taxi-hailing company Ola has secured a $300-million investment from South Korean car giant Hyundai, the firms said Tuesday, providing a major boost in ...
After years of a virtual duopoly, the Indian app-based ride-hailing market is witnessing a disruption of sorts. So what exactly does last month's launch of ...
Hyundai is investing US$300 million in Indian ride-hailing app Ola, the Korean carmaker said Tuesday. Hyundai vice chairman Chung Eui-sun met with Ola ...
SRINAGAR, India — Indian security forces say they have killed five militants and one civilian in gunbattles in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
In an interview to Mint, Pradeep Parameswaran, president (India and South Asia), Uber, talks about the company's plans.On-demand aviation has the potential ...
Mahindra has launched their on-demand cab *service* called Glyd, which will offer premium electric cabs. Can Glyd beat Ola and Uber in India?
Ola has raised money 2 days after Mahindra and Mahindra launched its ride-hailing app Glyd which will use electric cars. la had announced to bring 1 million ...
The share-swap deal is expected to close by next month and will give Uber a 10 percent stake in food delivery *service* Swiggy, the report said, citing people privy ...
Editor's note: A version of this post was previously published by ValueChampion, a research firm that aims to help consumers make smarter decisions with their ...
Though brand Glyd is owned by M&M the fleet will be owned by third party companies and drivers and not Mahindra.
GOJEK, Indonesia's first unicorn and 'Super App', has recently amped up its efforts to increase its talent footprint in India. This after they announced that they ...
This post has been updated. Six years into their fierce rivalry in India, call-taxi majors Ola and Uber are still trying out various routes to seek dominance in the ...
Grab, which owns Southeast Asia's biggest ride-hailing app, has several businesses under its umbrella — payments, food delivery, logistics. The underline ...
Kelly Sullivan/GettyIn its S-1 filing for IPO, Lyft warns that the push to classify ride-hailing app drivers as employees could damage its business.Like other.
by ValueChampion. Several ridesharing companies around the world are planning to list their stocks publicly in 2019. But how are they actually faring, and do ...
If there is a way to save cost, then a majority of the Indian consumers will try to check it out. That's been one of the more important ways in which ride sharing ...
Finding the pricing sweet spot has been the holy grail of consumer-facing businesses in India. Homegrown cab aggregator Ola and its US-based rival Uber are ...
General Motors announced it had invested in Lyft Inc, the ride-hailing startup, in the amount of $500 million, which gave the startup a $5.5 billion valuation and a ...
Ola, one of the world's largest ride-hailing companies has launched in Merseyside - and is aiming to surpass Uber as the region's top taxi-app firm.
It might be safe to suggest that most urban Indians have used an app-based taxi *service* at least once, if not more, in the last few years. Because… well ...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday told the Bombay High Court that it was in the process of developing a mobile application to help the visually impaired ...
Tech platform MoveInSync plans to debut its eponymous ride-hailing app in a pilot project in Bengaluru. Starting with about 500 cars, the Bengaluru-based ...
PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN) – Chheng Dani's six-year-old son was growing restless in the passenger seat of her taxi as she snaked through ...
Indian ride-hailing startup Ola is driving into new countries like there's no tomorrow. Today (Aug. 07), the Bengaluru-based company announced it plans to ...
Even as backer SoftBank encourages a merger, expensive contest may continue.
Last year, India's two top transport aggregator companies, Uber and Ola, witnessed a slowdown in their ridership growth primarily because both cut back on ...
Electric vehicle companies – manufacturers and fleets -- can achieve scale only with the right infrastructure. The jury is still out on whether this will take the form ...
Various companies in Mexico, including Uber Technologies Inc., have shown interest in using a new mobile payments system developed by the country's central ...
Apple is finally giving iPhone and iPad users in India the ability to use turn-by-turn navigation in its Maps app, a feature Google has offered for years.
Online ride booking apps in India have revolutionized travelling in the cities. Whether it's the office, mall, airport, or anywhere in the city, hail a cab.
Rapido works like any other taxi-booking app. To book a ride, users have to sign up and enter pickup and destination points. At present, it operates in 16 cities.
NEW DELHI: India's two largest ridehailing companies Ola and Uber are witnessing a sharp slowdown in the growth of rides over the past year as they steer ...
A ride-hailing app which advised UK women to have “prudence in offering or accepting a ride” has been criticised by politicians for appearing to suggest the ...
India's economy is flying on a single engine—consumer spending. Be it on air travel, buying smartphones, online shopping, or purchasing an automobile, ...
A recent survey on app-based ride-hailing in India conducted by J.D. Power found that 43% have used app-based ride-hailing services for their transportation ...
Ola has started making money on each cab ride — a major milestone — after taking into account expenses such as driver incentives and customer discounts.
While traffic congestion and worsening air quality are real concerns in India, there has been almost zero effort to study and collate data on the number of ...
Uber Lite should make the ride-hailing *service* easier to use in emerging markets where *service* is spotty and data is limited.
Dubai: Jugnoo, India's third-largest ride-hailing app after Uber and Ola, is making its foray into the UAE to offer on-demand rides and local deliveries on its ...
Indian ride-hailing company Ola announced that it is to launch services in Britain, expanding its foray abroad and intensifying its battle with US rival Uber.
Uber India has updated its driver app to incorporate a safety tool kit and introduced community guidelines for customers in a bid to promote safety of drivers on ...
City Hall has started a free traffic law training course for tuk-tuk and rickshaw drivers using ride-hailing apps after strong criticism from the public that they do not ...
Danker said the driver matching feature allows fleet owners to connect with drivers on the Uber platform, who don't own a vehicle.
With the market maturing, the incentives for drivers are likely to drop further, say industry experts ET spoke with.
Lyft went from a $7 billion valuation in 2017 to a $15 billion valuation in 2018 and is now seeking a $20-$25 billion valuation on the public markets.
Uber announces the launch of Uber Care, a first-of-its-kind comprehensive platform for thousands of driver partners who choose to drive using the Uber App.
Ola is replicating its tried and tested formula from its home country, India, in international markets: underwriting customers, incentivising drivers. On Nov. 06, the ...
Singapore, like every big city, has been overrun with new car *service* apps. Is that a good thing?
The new app was built in partnership with the fleet owners and comes with a simple design that offers a complete end-to-end experience with greater us..
LONDON: Indian ride-hailing company Ola began operating in south Wales on Monday ahead of a planned expansion across Britain by the end of the year, ...
News of Ola's entry into New Zealand highlights the firm's latest challenge to rival taxi-hailing app Uber.
Tokyo: Uber is “doubling down” on its investment in India as the company looks to rapidly expand in the market, chief operating officer Barney Harford told ET in ...
Shares Opens a New Window. in Levi Strauss & Co surged 31 percent in their debut on Thursday, giving the U.S. jeans maker a market value of $8.7 billion and ...
In 2017, many months before its merger with Uber made it Southeast Asia's biggest ride-hailing app, Grab realized it had a “rendezvous” problem. Although the ...
This *service* of Uber is already active in some of the countries including Australia and South Africa.
Vetting of drivers, panic buttons on phones, customer feedback—they've tried it all. Yet, another woman customer of an online ride-hailing *service* in India was ...
Ride-hailing app Uber, which is considering India among five global locations for its futuristic aerial taxi *service*, Thursday said it is in talks with regulators in the ...
Ride hailing app Uber on Saturday said its top executives met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and showcased its futuristic aerial taxi *service* under Uber Elevate.
A record-breaking cold night in Siberia back in 2012 spurred the creation of a more reliable ride-hailing *service* that spread through Russia and now that ...
Ride-hailing app company Uber just launched UberBOAT, a speedboat *service* between Mumbai's Gateway of India, Mandwa (near Alibaug) and Elephanta ...
For many people, new forms of mobility are making privately owned vehicles obsolete.
BENGALURU: The transport department has written to app-based ride-hailing *service* Ola to stop its bike taxi services immediately. The company has been ...
Uber India Systems, which provides marketing and support services to Uber, posted revenues of Rs 533 crore for the year ended March 2018, against Rs 4..
Flipkart cofounder Sachin Bansal has invested Rs 150 crore (about $21 million) in homegrown ride-hailing app Ola, the first tranche of an anticipated $100 ...
As of early 2018, Indian ride hailing company Ola was edging out Uber in terms of market share in the country. It was estimated to have a 56% share of the.
Indian ride-hailing company Ola on Tuesday announced its plans to enter New Zealand, deepening its battle with U.S rival Uber. Ola said it would provide its ...
Considering a huge popularity of its pool services, and India being one of the largest pool markets, Uber has now decided to launch Express Pool *service* in ...
BENGALURU: Ola has applied for a permit to launch a non-banking finance company, as it bets on financial services to diversify beyond the core ride-hailing ...
Ola, the ride-hailing *service* battling Uber in India, is introducing credit services to its users as it moves closer to a major new funding round. Today the company ...
NEW DELHI: The government, which wants to promote ride sharing by private car owners, is considering a proposal to either cap the number of such rides or the ...
Zomato's UAE delivery business will be operated by Talabat, a subsidiary of German firm Delivery Hero Group.
Manoj is an Ola driver in Lucknow. Ola owns the car he drives, and Manoj must pay the company about Rs800 ($11.66) every day for three years, after which the ...
Estimates suggest that there are around 50000 drivers in Mumbai with the two aggregators, and 80% of them were on strike. Similar strikes have been common ...
Ride-hailing company makes latest move to diversify as it battles with Uber.
New Delhi: ANI Technologies, which owns and operates ride-hailing platform Ola, is in discussions to invest in Pune-based carpooling app sRide, according to ...
The Bombay High Court has given 8 weeks to Maharashtra government for taking decision around fare-fixing for Ola-Uber ride-hailing services.
International Business News: Ola drivers in UK will have to pay an introductory commission rate of as low as 10% for private hire vehicles and 5% for black cabs ...
NEW DELHI: Ride hailing app Ola saw its losses widening to Rs 4,897.8 crore, even though its total income grew 70 per cent during FY2016-17 as compared to ...
Just as Singapore's fall was the beginning of the end of Britain's sway in Asia, so will ceding the city make it very hard now for Uber to hold on to India.
Jugnoo, headquartered in India, will shut down its Singapore app by end-August and supply tech expertise and engineering support to locally-founded Kardi.
While falling earnings hurt cab drivers, poor *service* irks the costumers.
Jugnoo, an Indian ride-hailing firm that entered Singapore in May in a bid to challenge Grab's market dominance, is exiting the city-state, according to a report by ...
The taxi aggregator is looking to start its ridesharing *service* Uber Air in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru by 2023.
The Dubai-based Careem has an India connection - it recently acquihired Hyderabad-based Commut.
One of India's most successful technology start-ups - taxi-hailing app Ola - is targeting the UK by roping in Google's former European head of operations to lead ...
Bengaluru-based ride hailing platform Ola will use funds to build the reach of electric vehicles, grow Foodpanda, and focus on international markets.
India Business News: New Delhi, Sep 25 () Ride hailing app Ola Tuesday said it has launched a real-time monitoring system for riders that will keep track of ...
Ola will be the only ride-hailing app in the UK market that will offer passengers the option of PHEVs and Black Cabs through one consumer-friendly platform.
Jugnoo, which uses auto-rickshaws in India, will offer a private car-based *service* in Singapore with an app that will allow riders to choose from drivers' ...
Riders can access the "Safety Toolkit" on the home screen of the app from the moment the driver accepts the trip through when the trip ends.
Indian ride-hailing company Ola is launching in Australia, it announced Tuesday, making its first foray abroad as it steps up a battle with rival Uber.
Saying the word 'taxi' in Goa is much like saying 'Voldemort' at Hogwarts–only the very brave ones say it out loud. The word brings with it a sense of dread, ...
If you've conquered China, then India — the world's second-largest country based on population — is the obvious next port of call, and that's exactly what has ...
BENGALURU • Shares in Levi Strauss & Co surged 31 per cent in their debut on Thursday, giving the jeans maker a market value of US$8.7 billion (S$11.8 ...
BENGALURU: Uber India Systems, which provides marketing and support services for Uber's businesses, has posted a marginal increase of 10% increase in its ...
NEW DELHI: Hong Kong-based Steadview Capital has invested over Rs 520 crore (about $74 million) in Ola as part of an ongoing financing round that values ...
With the acquisition, Careem's plans to expand to mass transportation through the addition of bus services.