January 6th, 2016Taxi-hailing app Uber on Monday announced a new start-up mentorship programme in the country in partnership with Invest India called 'uberEXCHANGE'.
Over the next years, Uber will host a series of six leadership talks by senior Uber executives, including from their headquarters in San Francisco, the company said in a statement. The...
January 6th, 2016New Delhi: Investment firm SoftBank’s founder Masayoshi Son, taxi-hailing service Uber’s founder Travis Kalanick and collaborative workspace provider WeWork’s founder Adam Neumann will attend the government’s Start-up India event next week, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil an action plan to assist early-stage...
December 20th, 2015“Why own a car, when you have a taxi at your doorstep?” has emerged as a trending concept in India.
India is witnessing a revolutionary change in urban road passenger conveyance – from traditional horse carriages of only a few decades earlier to modern-day fleet cabs, radio taxis and rental cars. The industry, very new and growing...
December 16th, 2015People in Delhi spend 90 minutes on average commuting to and from work each day. That’s eight hours a week getting to and from work–and a whopping 17 days a year! It’s a chronic waste of people’s time, and a drain on productivity. What’s more, the resulting traffic and pollution undermine everyone’s quality of...
December 12th, 2015Uber announced on Wednesday that it’s delving further info into food delivery with its new UberEATS app, separating its food delivery from its ride-sharing service.
The original UberEATS launched in Los Angeles last year, and has since moved into Toronto, New York City, Austin, Chicago, and Barcelona. It promised delivery in...
December 10th, 2015Bengaluru: Ride-hailing service Uber Technologies Inc. has temporarily suspended offering autorickshaw rides on it platform, called uberAUTO, in Delhi, amid plans to revamp and expand the service to more Indian cities.
“We are temporarily removing this product to solve specific problems that need to be resolved to help it scale,”...
December 5th, 2015App-based taxi aggregator Uber is looking to raise USD 2.1 billion in a fundraising round led by Tiger Global and other investors, valuing the company at USD 62.5 billion.
The funds raised will be used primarily for investments in India and China, according to people aware of the development. Sources said that next round of investment...
December 4th, 2015India’s largest cab aggregator Ola has joined international peers Didi Kuaidi, Lyft and GrabTaxi to form an alliance against San-Francisco-based Uber.
The global alliance enables international travelers to avail cab-hailing services of the four companies through the same app they use in their home country.
The partnership would...
November 22nd, 2015Tow days before when OLA was trending, I thought it might be a marketing gimmick …. Indeed it was!!
Great job done by the Marketing team at OLA to seize this opportunity to showcase OlaBoat service as a "Goodwill" gesture and capture top of mind recall within their Customer Base.
That’s what I would call a Masters stroke by a...
September 1st, 2015US-based cab service provider Uber is planning to come up with its own mobile payment wallet in India, according to sources. It is planning to apply to RBI for the licence.
At present, consumers can pay for Uber trips via Paytm wallet. It recently tied up with Airtel Money to facilitate payments via the latter's wallet as well. The...
December 20th, 2014The taxi business or more specifically the radio taxi business in India has skyrocketed over the past few years to say the least. Crores of rupees of investments and seemingly unending demands helped keep it soaring to new heights every year. But with the recent upheaval caused by the alleged rape committed by one of Uber (a San...
