The Ethnic Brand, a Kenyan startup that wants to be an Uber for manufacturing, has raised $500,000 from Malaysia's Magic Accelerator to bring manufacturing as a service to global artisans and fashion gurus. Ethnic Brand, an offshoot of Alex Mativo's E-lab which was recycling obsolete electronic devices by turning them ...
In a move that will see Uber customers move from one point to another with or without data, Uber has unveiled a hotline to allow its users to hail cabs using just a phone call. You can now request a ride with just a phone call—giving you more options to ...
uMashesha is South Africa's first woman-owned taxi hailing app targeting at taking on Uber and other such apps with better commissions and more business for its driver partners from its delivery services. Launched two months ago by CEO Christine Mesolo, the Centurion based Cab Hailing start-up says it has invested more ...
Toyota and Uber have announced a partnership agreement to advance and bring to market autonomous ride-sharing as a mobility service at scale. The firms aim to deploy the self-driving technology into purpose-built Toyota vehicles which will then be deployed on Uber's ride-sharing network. Separately, Toyota is investing $500 million in Uber. "Combining ...
Google Maps and Uber teamed up in 2017 to come up with a feature that would enable one to search for, book and pay for an Uber direct from Google Maps. It helped new people in a place to check for directions, distance and the estimated fare to their destination ...
US-riding hailing firm Uber has launched Uber Lite in India but targeted at the other emerging markets such as as Latin America and Africa where data is expensive and smartphone penetration is largely populated by low storage $100 Android smartphones. "At Uber, we believe that anyone, anywhere should be able ...
Uber Eats has acquired South African restaurant technology HBD portfolio company: orderTalk, Inc to enable it to streamline workflows by directly integrating with leading point of sale (POS) systems. Though the terms of the deal were not disclosed, the deal triggers a significant venture capital exit for Knife Capital and HBD ...
UAE's cab hailing startup Mondo Ride, which launched in Kenya in 2016 to take on Uber, Maramoja Transport has raised $2 million in funding today to bring to $5 million its total funds raised as the firm struggles to beat Taxify, Little and Uber in Kenya's aggressive taxi market. Since its ...
Uber Eats is set to launch in Kenya and the firm is hiring a Marketplace Operations Manager to scale and develop its food delivery platform in the market. According to a job posting by Uber on Ringier's BrighterMonday the firm is looking at someone strong enough to coordinate relations between the consumer, ...
Ridesharing company, Uber has agreed to pay up to $3 million to settle a class-action lawsuit slammed on it on behalf of 2,421 drivers in New York. The drivers accused Uber of breach of contract for including sales tax and a "Black Car Fund" fee, which relates to workers' compensation, ...
Taxify has hit one year since its launch in Kenya, East Africa recording tremendous growth in the last 12 months. The firm says it expanded to 4 cities within East Africa in the last quarter of 2017 with more than 5 million trips taken across East Africa. The firm says ...
Uber Kenya is losing customers fast due to its high passenger charges, few driver-partners on the road due to high commissions and a general lack of local of quick customer care. There have been claims that the firm is one in three people daily due to the above. However, in ...
Uber has hired a new GM for West Africa as Safaricom-backed Little prepares to launch in a few weeks. Uber says its new GM for West Africa, Lola Kassim, who is replacing Ebi Atawodi will oversee the firm's West Africa strategy, improve its UberX service and create additional value for ...
Didi-backed Taxify has launched Taxify Comfort, a new service for riders seeking a top-end service experience with experienced and highest rated drivers as well as newer, better car models. The launch of Taxify Comfort comes just ten days after Uber launched UberSELECT in the market. Taxify Silently, Didi-backed firm added surge ...
Algeria's Yassir is a new taxi hailing app set to allow users to hail cab drivers near them directly quickly and cheaply. Developed by engineer and former Intel Corporation researcher Noureddine Tayebi, Yassir will be first launched in El Biar, Benaknoun, Cheraga, Dely Ibrahim, Ouled Fayet, Birmourad Rais, Mohamadia, Bab ...
... continued from Part 1 CAB HIRE CONFIRMATION TIME To check the time of confirmation of a can hire, I tried hiring a taxi from the same location to the same destination on both apps. On Taxify, my order was confirmed and my designated driver was assigned to me in ...
Cab hiring services is one innovation that took the world of start-up by storm as it witnessed massive acceptance and patronage in many countries all across the world. I do not have enough facts, figures or statistics to back up my next statement but I think Nigeria, if not the ...
Since its launch in September in Sub-Saharan Africa, Uber has signed up 1.8 million active riders and 29,000 active driver-partners with South Africa leading the pack with 969 000 active riders and 12 000 active drivers while Nigeria comes in second with 267 000 active riders and 7 000 active ...
Last week, news went viral that the Transport for London (TfL) has decided not to renew Uber's licence to operate in the city. This means that after Uber's licence expires on 30th September 2017, it would be barred from operating. If this is the case, 40,000 licensed drivers may become ...
Founded by Tanzanian-American Godwin Gabriel, Moovn is a black-owned international ride hailing platform taking on Uber, Lyft and Didi in the US, UAE and across Africa. Moovn, which launched in Tanzania last year recently partnered with Vodacom on data and payments as it mulls expansion into Kenya and South Africa ...
Google's parent company, Alphabet is in talks with the ride-sharing app and Uber rival-Lyft, to invest up to $1 billion. Interestingly, Alphabet has previously invested in Uber, but that relationship has recently nosedived as Alphabet's self-driving car unit, Waymo, has sued Uber claiming that an engineer who left Waymo for ...
India's Zoomcar, a self-drive car rental startup is set to expand to Africa and Asia with its vast fleet of hatchbacks, sedans, SUVs and luxury cars to redefine car rental services and give users the power to hire a car and drive around without owning it. Now present in more ...
Matatu Former my1963 firm Virscom has today launched ShareCABTM, a new taxi hailing app charging set to change the local cab hailing industry as drivers pay zero per cent commission to use it. With plans to launch in Mombasa, Kisumu and Eldoret and across Kenya over the next six months, ...
Founded by Edward Essien, Ken Nwogbo and Charles Okoronkwo, Holla Cab, an On Demand Taxi Hailing company has announced that it's set to launch its services in Lagos, Nigeria to allow anyone hail a cab from their smartphones instantly in a few weeks time. The Holla Cab app is launching ...
A good number of Nairobi driver partners using Uber, Taxify, Little and Mondo Ride apps have downed their tools indefinite calling for a hike in prices from their respective affiliate firms known to be lowering prices every month to stay competitive but at the detriment of driver revenues. In a ...
Taxify, Europe’s ride-sharing platform, launches tomorrow morning in London with thousands of drivers signed up to the platform and ready to accept rides anywhere in the Capital from 10.00am on Tuesday 5 September just a month after its partnership with China's Didi Chuxing. The firm says it has suspended surge ...
Maybe in a bid to improve patronage, or to thank customers as they would put it, Ride hailing platform Taxify has included a free chicken wing option in the app. Users can order chicken wing from the Taxify app just as they get matched with a driver. This offer is for ...
Uber has confirmed Dara Khosrowshahi as it is new Chief Executive Officer. Khosrowshahi who was poached from Expedia Inc will replace Travis Kalanick. Uber said in a statement: "We are delighted to announce that Uber’s Board has voted unanimously to appoint Dara Khosrowshahi to be our new CEO. "Dara came to America ...
Just days after Kenya's Little launched a virtual wallet in a move expected to improve its customer experience through a simplified checkout process and building customer loyalty, Uganda's Uber for motorcycle taxis has followed suit. SafeBoda, Uganda's 'Uber' for motorcycle taxis has announced that it has launched a virtual mobile ...
The search for a new boss by Uber seems to have ended as the ride-hailing startup has appointed Expedia head, Dara Khosrowshahi, as its new CEO according to reports. Uber has been without a CEO since founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick resigned in June after his ouster. He remains on Uber's ...
