TAIPEI (Reuters) – Uber Technologies said it will suspend its service in Taiwan from Feb. 10, firing the latest salvo in the ride-hailing service company’s long-running dispute with the island’s authorities over mounting fines. Uber’s Read more…
Southeast Asian ride-hailing platform Grab has launched a plan to invest $700 million in Indonesia over the next four years to support Indonesia’s goal of becoming Southeast Asia’s largest digital economy by 2020. The “Grab Read more…
Ericsson, China Mobile Shanghai and bike-sharing service Mobike have joined forces to trial cellular IoT technologies on a live network to provide a more convenient and enhanced bike-sharing experience to Mobike users. Carried out on Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Mobike said it has joined hands with Foxconn to double the number of bikes it plans to make this year to 10 million, adding that the Taiwanese manufacturing giant had also Read more…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Leading ride-hailing firms have praised an Indian policy blueprint on regulating the taxi industry, saying it would offer their app-based services a chance to flourish despite their concerns about price caps. Read more…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Uber Technologies and Indonesia’s second-biggest taxi operator PT Express Transindo Utama announced on Monday a partnership on ride-sharing and vehicle financing. The deal will give Uber, which currently operates in five Indonesian Read more…
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Uber Technologies said it was disappointed Taiwan’s legislature had passed a regulation that will raise fines sharply on unlicensed ride-sharing services to the highest level for such fines globally. The Legislative Yuan Read more…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Uber Technologies expects to turn a profit in India soon as the ride-hailing firm takes on home-grown rival Ola, the United States-based company’s CEO Travis Kalanick said. India, one of the Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Southeast Asian ride-hailing service Grab said on Monday it had secured an investment from Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co as part of a deal to collaborate on its GrabBike motorbike-hailing service, in Read more…
KARACHI/LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Taxi-hailing service Careem introduced women drivers in Pakistan on Wednesday, a rare initiative in a deeply conservative Muslim country where women account for only 22% of the workforce. Careem has a Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) – Volkswagen launched a new digital business division on Monday to take on services such as Uber, shifting its focus beyond selling cars to catering for customers who prefer to pay for use Read more…
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Uber Technologies urged Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to let the island’s people decide whether they want Uber services, the latest salvo in the wrangle between the authorities there and the global ride-hailing Read more…
GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) – Volkswagen said on Thursday it is in talks with China’s Didi Chuxing to set up a high-end ride-hailing service, while also announcing ambitious sales goals for electric and hybrid vehicles in Read more…
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan plans to ask Apple and Google to pull apps of Uber Technologies available in Taiwan on their app stores, a government official said, upping pressure on the ride-hailing firm that is Read more…
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Ride-hailing service Uber Technologies will focus on organic growth as it expands into Southeast Asian markets, a senior vice president told Reuters. It will also seek to work with Taiwan’s government towards Read more…
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