taxi market
After Fears That E-Hailing Rules Wouldn't Pass, TLC Approves Year-Long Pilot Program to Test Taxi Apps
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(Photo: Wikimedia) In a packed meeting at the Taxi and Limousine Commission headquarters this morning, commissioners voted 7-0 in favor of adopting a year-long pilot program to test out e-hailing apps that let riders flag down yellow cabs from their smartphone. The pilot won’t commence until February and after reviewing...
After Fears That E-Hailing Rules Wouldn't Pass, TLC Approves Year-Long Pilot Program to Test Taxi Apps
Put your hand down! Hailo, yet another cab app, gets $17M from Accel Partners
venturebeat.com
Today, lots of mobile applications help tired city-dwellers flag down cabs. But Hailo, London’s cab app company, is picking up passengers by focusing on the drivers. Accel Partners noticed and gave the company a $17 million first round of funding to make cabbies happy. “In London where competition has...
On-Demand Taxi Service Hailo Cleared To Operate In New York City
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During a panel discussion at Disrupt called “Urban Transportation,” the CEO and co-founder of Hailo, Jay Bregman, announced that the on-demand taxi service has gotten the go-ahead to operate in the New York City area. The London-based company has raised $50.6M to date, covering cities all over the world such...
Taxi app Hailo is raising $30M to take on Uber in NYC
venturebeat.com
Watch out Uber, the cab hailing app Hailo is hot on your heels in New York City with a new $30 million funding round, reports All Things D. This new round values the London-based company at $140 million, multiple sources tell All Things D, with the lead investor likely...
Cabforce Goes After The Corporate Taxi Booking Market With 30% Growth Month-Over-Month
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While startups like Uber, Lyft, Hailo and Sidecar are upending traditional taxi markets across North America and Europe, Helsinki’s Cabforce is aiming to change corporate bookings for taxis across the European continent and soon the U.S. The twelve-person company has built an API and hub that lets third-party corporate booking...
Moscow, Meet GetTaxi. GetTaxi, Moscow.
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Today, the Israeli-based taxi service GetTaxi launched in Moscow. The company had previously launched in 13 cities in Israel, in addition to London last summer. This most recent launch in Moscow means that GetTaxi now covers 60% of the available taxi market in Europe. GetTaxi is well on its way of...
This Uber Competitor Is Coming To America With $17 Million In Funding From Accel
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Taxi-app company Hailo has raised $17 million in a series A round led by Accel Partners. It is a smartphone app that lets passengers order a cab with two taps, either on the iPhone or Android. The app has been downloaded nearly 200,000 times. Hailo founder Jay Bregman's pitch: "The...
Mayor Bloomberg on Taxi Apps: 'There Is a Group of Cab Owners That Are Opposed to Anything'
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Mayor Bloomberg and Jack Dorsey during Square’s short-lived pilot program. This morning, on his weekly Friday radio show with John Gambling, Mayor Bloomberg discussed the Taxi and Limousine Commission’s vote in favor of a year-long pilot program to test out e-hailing apps, which let riders flag down a cab with...
Hailo closes $30.6m Series B round from Union Square Ventures, Richard Branson, KDDI and others
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Hailo has scooped a whopping $30.6m Series B funding round led by Union Square Ventures (USV), with participation from a slew of high-profile investors including Richard Branson and Japanese telco KDDI. USV has a strong track record in big-name tech investments, and was among the first institutional investors in Twitter,...
While Talks with the TLC Stall Out, Uber Partners With HBO Give New Yorkers a Free Ride in a Vintage Whip
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(Photo: Uber) Uber will not go gently into that good night. The request-a-ride app raged against New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission last week for putting a stop to its rogue mission to let New Yorkers hail and pay for a yellow cab with a few taps of their...
While Talks with the TLC Stall Out, Uber Partners With HBO Give New Yorkers a Free Ride in a Vintage Whip
The Best of Betabeat: A 2012 Retrospective
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As 2011 came to a close, we looked back at our most popular posts. But this year, we’re a little older (a mature year and nine months!), a lot wiser, and thought we’d try something a little different. Thank you for reading! LONGREADS Ultra-Orthodox Jews Take a Hard Line on...
Does Hailo have Uber on the run in New York's taxi wars?
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It looks like the battle for New York’s taxi market is heating up, as a group of leading startups struggle with the city’s regulations — and with each other. Two good reports out overnight run through the state of play as Uber, the Californian town car service beloved by San...
Taxi-summoning mobile app Hailo launches in Boston with city seal of approval
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Roughly 25 percent of Boston's taxis can now be hailed via a new smartphone app, Hailo. Nicholas Erwin Just one day after Uber gave up on the New York City taxi market under pressure from the local regulator, a UK startup called Hailo has just launched a similar service in Boston....
Confirmed: TomTom acquired TXXI in 2011 to expand taxi service offerings
thenextweb.com
Late last week, we reported that TomTom was poised to enter the taxi-hailing app space in a big way, as it is currently trialling such a service in Amsterdam. It would, essentially, turn TomTom into a major competitor to the likes of Hailo (earlier coverage), Click A Taxi (earlier coverage)...
Flywheel, the Taxi-Hailing App Formerly Known as Cabulous, Sidesteps Controversy
allthingsd.com
As the largest taxi market in the country prepares to allow new-fangled cab-hailing apps — the vote is scheduled for tomorrow morning in New York City — one mobile player is giving itself a makeover. Flywheel, formerly known as Cabulous, helps users hail and pay for rides. It partners with taxi...
Last Hurdle Falls in NYC Taxi App Battle; Judge Dismisses Black Car E-Hail Lawsuit
allthingsd.com
A New York judge today dismissed a lawsuit aimed to stop e-hail apps like Uber and Hailo from helping people get rides with their smartphones in New York City. The lawsuit had been brought by black car and livery drivers who argued that e-hail could encourage discrimination when drivers decline...
TomTom confirms new taxi-ordering service, beginning trial rollout in Amsterdam
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TomTom has been continually upping its navigation game, what with its partnership with Apple in iOS 6 and the HD Traffic 6.0 upgrade and requisite Android app announced this summer. Far be it from the Dutch service to rest on its mapping laurels, though: it's now poised to take...
On-Demand Taxi Startup Hailo Raises $30M From USV And Others, Including Strategic Funding From KDDI To Launch In Tokyo
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On-demand taxi service Hailo is looking east. After successful launches in cities throughout Europe and North America, the startup is intent on bringing its e-hail application to Tokyo, Japan. To do so, the company has created a Japanese subsidiary, and it’s raised some strategic funding from Japanese telco KDDI, in...
On-Demand Taxi Startup Hailo Raises $30M From USV And Others, Including Strategic Funding From KDDI To Launch In Tokyo
GetTaxi hails $20m in funding as the Israeli startup eyes the NYC cab market
thenextweb.com
GetTaxi has announced a whopping $20m funding round as the Israeli startup ramps up its international efforts and sets its sights on the lucrative NYC taxi market. We’ve seen a surge in taxi apps in recent times, with the likes of Hailo securing $17m in series A funding, and Uber...
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