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Ola Extends Its Mobile Wallet Beyond Rides
Riders in more than 100 cities in India can now use OlaMoney — the proprietary digital wallet created by Uber’s biggest competitor, OlaCabs — to pay for online services and orders. Dibyangshu Sarkar /...
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Uber's Indian Competitor, Ola, Is Already Doing Uber's Next Big Thing
Prakash Singh / AFP / Getty Images Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has a vision of the perfect Uber trip. “It’s the perpetual trip, the trip that never ends,” Kalanick said last year. “The driver picks one...
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With This One Tweet, Ola Cabs May Have Lost A Customer But They Won The Internet
*Hands clapping Emoji* Ola is an Indian radio taxi service and app. (Like Uber but desi.) Ola Cabs / Via olacabs.com Last night, a customer tweeted at them asking that he be able to choose which...
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Uber's Biggest Indian Competitor, OlaCabs, Secures $400 Million In Series E...
A quarter of that will go toward growing the recently acquired TaxiForSure — once the country’s second biggest taxi-hailing app. itunes.apple.com Just one month after acquiring TaxiForSure — India's...
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Uber Is Rolling Out Cash Payments In Hyderabad
The ride-hailing service embarks on an experiment in a market with low credit card penetration. Anindito Mukherjee / Reuters Uber is now accepting cash or credit in Hyderabad, India. On Monday...
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Uber's Biggest Rival In China Just Invested In Lyft
The move is the latest in a series of indications that a global taxi and ride-hail alliance is forming against Uber, as BuzzFeed News first reported. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images It's happening. A...
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Uber Brings UberPool To Bangalore With Ola Trailing Closely Behind It
Uber India is launching UberPool in Bangalore, piggybacking on a city-wide carpooling initiative meant to cut down on traffic. Manjunath Kiran / AFP / Getty Images Bangalore is the 18th-most populous...
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India's Biggest Ride-Hail Player Just Launched Its Own Payments App
olamoney.com Ask the CEOs and founders of the world’s biggest ride-hail companies what their companies will look like five years from now and they're likely to describe a broad, on-demand logistics...
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India's Largest Ride-Hail Company, Ola, Just Raised $500 Million
Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP / Getty Images The battle for dominance in India's ride-hail market is an increasingly expensive one for incumbent Ola. Over the past year, the company has aggressively rolled...
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Lyft Partners With GrabTaxi And Ola To Form The Largest Global Ride-Hail...
Lyft / Via Lyft press kit The struggle for global on-demand transportation supremacy is fast becoming a battle of the Uber empire versus ride-hail alliance. With Uber -- flush with $1.2 billion in...
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GrabTaxi Is Opening Its First U.S. Engineering Center In Seattle
GrabTaxi (known as MyTeksi in Malaysia) CEO Anthony Tan. GrabTaxi GrabTaxi, the Southeast Asian ride-hail giant, has tapped former Microsoft engineer Raman Narayanan to open its first-ever U.S....
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The New Ridesharing Battlefield: Southeast Asia
GrabTaxi CEO Anthony Tan GrabTaxi According to Grab CEO and co-founder Anthony Tan, the so-called “anti-Uber alliance” began with a common enemy — and a friendship.Long before the official agreement...
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I Asked My Ola Drivers What Customers Do That Pisses Them Off, And Learned 15...
I’ve been asking Ola drivers to tell me about the most monstrous customers they’ve driven. For the last few weeks, I've been asking Ola drivers to tell me what makes their lives difficult. What do...
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7 Female Uber & Ola Drivers Confess How Much They Earn And How They're Treated
“Some cut the line when I call them for directions, thinking it’s a wrong number because they’re so shocked that a woman picked up the line.” Kanchi (Ola Mumbai) How she started: "My husband and I did...
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Thousands Of Indians Agree That They Take Ubers Because Rickshaw Drivers...
“Begging every morning for auto guys to do their duties is not a Mumbaikar’s idea of starting his day.” This is Dhruv Souran, a Mumbai resident currently pursuing his masters in communication and...
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Let's Take A Moment To Appreciate The Genius Of Whoever Runs AIB's Social...
I don’t know who it is, but SOMEONE at the All India Bakchod office deserves a damn raise. This shade. Twitter: @AllIndiaBakchod This legit AF breakdown. This spot-on prediction. Facebook:...
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This Guy Keeps Trolling Everyone With "Informative" Twitter Threads And...
“This is a great thread with actual inside information.” This is stand-up comedian Rajneesh Kapoor. Facebook: rajneesh13 Lately, he's started writing his own Twitter threads that are being read by...
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If You've Been In An Indian City During Festivals, You Already Know How Real...
We’ve all seen this happen. Ola and Early Man Film just released a PSA titled Ambulance to highlight the highly prevalent problem of ambulance delays in India due to processions and celebrations on...
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These Companies' PR Teams Are Hilariously Cashing In On The ₹500 And ₹1000 News
“We have got two words for you: Paytm Karo.” Today, PM Narendra Modi shocked the nation when he announced that ₹500 and ₹1,000 notes will not be considered legal, effective midnight. The government...
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