Although taxi software is subject to policy restrictions, it does not affect the pace of capital expansion of practitioners

Although the taxi software is subject to policy restrictions, it does not affect the pace of capital expansion of practitioners. Recently, just entered the Hong Kong market "quick Taxi" announced with the Shanghai Taxi Software "Bumblebee" merger, although the two sides did not disclose the details of the merger. But in the industry's view, a total of 90% of the Shanghai market share of the two major enterprises will likely affect the industry pattern.

According to the quick taxi published data, quick taxi originated from Hangzhou, currently covers 35 cities including Hong Kong, users download close to 20 million, the number of drivers using more than 200,000, monthly orders to break through 4 million single. Analysys International recently released the "2013 third quarter of China's taxi app market monitoring report," shows that the fastest taxi market share to 41.8% ranked first in the industry. The main stronghold in Shanghai, the Hornet, in the normal taxi operation, 60 second response rate of more than 80%.

Although the quick taxi and Bumblebee merger for the first case of the software industry, but the response of both sides relatively low-key and official. Quick CAB CEO Lu Zhunwei said, "It is a great pleasure to work with Li Yongjin and the Great Hornets team to create a city travel portal based on mobile Internet, we have established a common vision for the development prospects of this industry and how to provide the best experience for our users, and strategic merging can help us better serve the users ”。 The Hornets CEO Li Yongjin said to the media, "after careful and serious consideration, we accepted a quick taxi merger invitation."

and quick Taxi founder Chen Weixing recently to the media, "two companies have begun to contact, but this thing is mainly Lu Zhunwei and investors Ali capital together to finalize, if coupled with Bumblebee, the user data will be in the original quick cab on the basis of a further increase of about 30%".

"From the quick taxi and the combination of the Hornets can see that the industry is out of the extensive development, further towards intensification," the industry said. And the quick Taxi insider to the merger is full of anticipation, said "industry first and the third merger is certainly changing the industry pattern of events." As a "quick taxi" investor, Alibaba Group welcomed the merger, saying it would invest nearly billions of dollars and other resources with other financial investors to support its continued development.

In this connection, Ali Capital managing director Zhang Hongping said, "' Quick Taxi ' is a successful application of wireless internet to change human travel and lifestyle, we see the company's future growth potential in the field of O2O, just as Alibaba chose to invest in the U.S. group in the group buying war more than two years ago." ”

However, policy remains a constraint on the development of the industry. It is understood that the beginning of November this year, the Beijing Municipal Transportation Authority of the Transport Bureau interviewed the rocking recruit cars, tick-tock taxi, easy to reach the company responsible for the taxi, once again ordered it to increase the issue of rectification. It is reported that Shenzhen and Shanghai's regulatory departments have also reorganized the taxi software market.