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Gojek To Take Strategic Stake In Blue Bird Taxicab Company
Gojek To Take Strategic Stake In Blue Bird Taxicab Company
December 16, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Indonesian delivery app Gojek has announced it will buy 5 percent of taxicab company Blue Bird, in an effort to stay competitive with rivals like...

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Mail.ru And Sberbank To Back Joint eCommerce Platform
Mail.ru And Sberbank To Back Joint eCommerce Platform
July 25, 2019  |  Retail

As eCommerce sales in Russia gather pace, internet firm Mail.ru and Sberbank plan to invest up to $1 billion or 64 billion rubles in a...

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Uber, Yandex To Acquire Russian Taxi Service Vezyot
Uber, Yandex To Acquire Russian Taxi Service Vezyot
July 15, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Yandex has announced that MLU B.V., its ride-sharing and food delivery joint venture with Uber, has agreed to acquire the IP and call-centers of Russia’s...

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Taxi Drivers Driven To Bankruptcy Over Medallion Loans
Taxi Drivers Driven To Bankruptcy Over Medallion Loans
May 19, 2019  |  Loans

The New York City taxicab industry has been suffering, with a series of suicides plaguing taxi drivers over the past year as they struggle with...

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Sony Launches Taxi-Hailing App In Japan
Sony Launches Taxi-Hailing App In Japan
April 22, 2019  |  International

Sony has gotten into the taxi-hailing business, launching an app in Tokoyo last week. First spotted by CNET and covered by reporters Monday (April 22),...

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Uber Sues City Of New York To Get Driver Cap Lifted
Uber Sues City Of New York To Get Driver Cap Lifted
February 18, 2019  |  Ridesharing

Uber, the ride-hailing startup, filed a lawsuit against the city of New York last week seeking to overturn a rule that puts a cap on...

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Boeing Completes Successful Test Flight Of Air Taxi
Boeing Completes Successful Test Flight Of Air Taxi
January 23, 2019  |  Innovation

Boeing and Uber are getting one step closer to their vision of flying taxis, with reports that Boeing’s first test flight was a success. According...

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An Australian Taxi Bidding Model In The Age Of Rideshares
An Australian Taxi Bidding Model In The Age Of Rideshares
November 08, 2018  |  Retail

In the dot-com era of the 1990s, Priceline came onto the scene with a revolutionary idea for travel: Travelers could use a “name your own...

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