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| May 1, 2017 | Stupid Patents Of The Month: Taxi Dispatch Tech | With all the attention ride-sharing has been getting lately, some might think Uber and Lyft were highly inventive apps. But according to at least one company, the apps are just highly infringing. Who’s right? Probably neither. |
| Mar 13, 2017 | Hailo app being parked in London as mytaxi migration kicks off | Uber alternative Hailo, which lets people hail a licensed taxi via smartphone app, is coming to the end of the road in London, as users are now being urged to switch to new ride-hailing vehicle, mytaxi.
Hailo users in London have until the ... |
| Mar 6, 2017 | Hailo Rebrands As Mytaxi After Merger | British taxi-hailing app Hailo is rebranding as mytaxi in Ireland and abroad, following the company’s recent merger with Daimler subsidiary mytaxi. The merger has created Europe’s largest taxi e-hailing venture.
Mytaxi is accelerating the i... |
| Sep 8, 2016 | Google Maps goes beyond Uber with Lyft support | The navigation app now displays nine ridesharing partners as transportation across 60 countries
Editor's note: Our 6th Annual Vator Splash LA conference is coming up on October 13 at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica. Speakers include Mark Cu... |
| Jul 26, 2016 | Hailo and Daimler-owned MyTaxi agree to merge in all-share deal to fend off Uber (and others) | Daimler, the German multinational that owns Mercedes-Benz, is making a bet that Uber will not end up dominating Europe’s taxi-booking space. Instead, the company seeks to combine the MyTaxi business it bought nearly two years ago with Hailo... |
| Jul 26, 2016 | Mytaxi and Union Square Ventures-backed Hailo Merge | mytaxi and Hailo, two innovative leaders in the field of taxi e-hailing, are joining forces and creating Europe’s largest taxi e-hailing company with 70 million passengers and 100.000 registered taxi drivers in over 50 cities across nine co... |
| Jul 26, 2016 | Hailo and MyTaxi | The news broke this morning that our portfolio company Hailo is combining forces with MyTaxi.
The combined company, which will operate under the MyTaxi brand, will be the dominant taxi hailing app in Western Europe.
Hailo is huge in the UK ... |
| Jul 26, 2016 | Mytaxi and Union Square Ventures-backed Hailo Merge | mytaxi and Hailo, two innovative leaders in the field of taxi e-hailing, are joining forces and creating Europe’s largest taxi e-hailing company with 70 million passengers and 100.000 registered taxi drivers in over 50 cities across nine co... |
| Jul 26, 2016 | Confirmed: Hailo sells 60% of company to Daimler as it merges with MyTaxi | Some more movement and consolidation is afoot in the on-demand transportation industry, specifically in Europe. Today, Hailo is announcing that it has sold 60% of its company to Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler, and Hailo will merge its and rebr... |
| Jun 2, 2016 | Dear auto entrepreneurs, please think outside the gearbox | David Frankel Contributor
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| Mar 18, 2016 | Eats, maps, and Tijuana: this week in Uber | The king of ridesharing had a crazy busy week, with expansion of UberEATS and other launches
When you've raised a billion-dollar round several times over, you can do a lot in a week. Here I've aggregated all the biggest Uber-related news fr... |
| Dec 16, 2015 | The UK’s Diverse Tech Ecosystem is Boosted by 15 New Future Fifty Companies | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Today we announce the latest group of companies who are joining, and graduating, from our Future Fifty programme. The companies chosen demonstrate growing location and sector ... |
| Nov 23, 2015 | Cabify and Hailo Are Not Afraid of the Return of UBER in Spain | UBER recently announced that they’ll shut down UberEats in Barcelona and move over to the VTC-model (private transportation with a driver). Exactly when they will start driving with this new model is unclear, but in an interview with El Esp... |
| Nov 10, 2015 | Hailo now lets London taxi drivers accept credit card payments from non-Hailo customers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
E-taxi company Hailo has launched a new service that lets any taxi driver in London accept credit card payments with just their badge n... |
| Nov 3, 2015 | Mobile Apps For Both Sides Of The Market | In the web era, if you had a two sided marketplace, you had one app that served both sides of the market.
In the mobile era, it seems that it is better to have different native mobile apps for both sides of the market.
Ridesharing and deliv... |
| Oct 12, 2015 | Taxi Alliance To Take On Hailo | Three of Dublin's largest taxi firms — Xpert Taxis, National Radio Cabs and VIP Taxis — have joined forces to introduce e-Cab to Ireland.
eCab is an app that allows users to order, track and pay for their taxis through their mobile phones o... |
| Oct 5, 2015 | These plucky startup founders want to beat Apple and Google at geolocation | On a sunny street by the C&O Canal in Georgetown, a tiny startup called Parkour Method is trying to make the world a more navigable place.
But getting there has itself been a journey.Point A: First steps
The stars aligned for Yonis Beni... |
| Oct 1, 2015 | Taxi App Hailo Goes Back To Black Cabs Only In London | Handbrake turn! U.K. based taxi app Hailo is handing in its private hire vehicle (PHV) license in London and going black cab only, which is where the business began — only expanding to include PHVs in May 2014 and causing some irate cabbies... |
| Oct 1, 2015 | Hailo sides with black cabs in London's growing taxi war | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Black cab drivers have previously taken to the streets of London to protest against Uber. Getty
London taxi app Hailo says it is... |
| Jul 9, 2015 | The UK is Leading the Rest of Europe in the Scale-Up Race | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
The Startup Europe Partnership (SEP), along with PEDAL Consulting, release report highlighting the tech ‘scale-ups’, ‘scalers’ and exits across France, Germany, Italy, Spain a... |
| Jun 10, 2015 | Where Does Your Favorite US App Rank in Terms of Quality? | Believe it or not, there’s a company out there that combs through half a billion ratings and user reviews submitted across more than 30 million apps in the Android and iOS app stores. Why do they do this?
Well, they’ve taken it upon themsel... |
| Jun 2, 2015 | PlusMINUS: First Birmingham Retail Tech Event | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Friday marks the date of the inaugural PlusMINUS consumer tech event in Birmingham, with some huge industry players in attendance and taking to the stage.
The inaugural PlusM... |
| Apr 22, 2015 | Taxi App Hailo Lays Off More Staff, Preps Another Round Of Funding | Yellow lights ahead for Hailo? We have heard, and now confirmed, that the London-based taxi-hailing startup that competes against the likes of Uber for on-demand car services is laying off staff. As part of a reorganization, 17 people, or a... |
| Mar 27, 2015 | Hailo protests against driverless cars by projecting cabbies’ faces onto London landmarks | Driverless cars will undoubtedly have a big part to play in the future of personal transport, with the likes of Google making big moves and Uber planning its own automated car research center. But the taxi industry isn’t happy about this, w... |
| Mar 27, 2015 | Hailo protests against driverless cars by projecting cabbies’ faces onto London landmarks | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Dec 31, 2014 | Want a cheap, reliable ride for NYE? Download these Uber alternatives before tonight | Getting a ride home on New Year’s Eve is like trying to get a Tickle-Me-Elmo at Walmart on Black Friday: To beat the crowds, you need a plan. Even if you want to pay +$200 for Uber’s crazy surge pricing, it can still be a nightmare trying t... |
| Nov 20, 2014 | Looking for a Ride? Here's a List of Uber Alternatives | Uber has lost some users this week following stories about executives proposing opposition research on critical journalists’ personal lives and tracking a journalist’s use of the service without her permission. Some customers publicly ended... |
| Oct 26, 2014 | The Cost Of Loyalty | In the local transportation market, we now have lots of options in addition to mass transit. Here in NYC, we have taxis, Lyft, and Uber. In SF and LA, we have taxis, Sidecar (our portfolio company), Lyft, and Uber. Around the country and wo... |
| Oct 14, 2014 | Taxi startup Hailo will shut down operations in North America as cofounder departs | Today Hailo chief Tom Barr announced that the company will pull out of North America “where the astronomical marketing spend required to compete is making profitability for any one player almost impossible.”
This decision, of course, is the... |
| Sep 17, 2014 | How The Internet Killed Profit | Tom Goodwin Contributor
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