Lyft purchase carpool application hitch against Uber taxi market competition white-hot

In the Chinese market, drop a taxi and quick to catch a taxi to fight, together to promote the public for taxi car rental software awareness and popularization. Interestingly, in the U.S. taxi software market, there have been two giants fierce confrontation--uber and Lyft competition is increasingly white-hot. Uber has taken a vision of the world, is in China and other markets overall layout, at the same time, Lyft launched a merger strategy in order to strengthen their muscles. Recently, Lyft announced the acquisition of U.S. car carpool software and service provider Hitch. After the acquisition is complete, Hitch's own-brand software and services will be closed and the business will be merged into Lyft. It is reported that starting from June this year, Hitch began to provide carpool services. And Uber taxi rental, as well as Lyft private car soliciting different, hitch the main car, carpool service launch time, earlier than Uber, Lyft and Sidecar company. In the carpool service, the driver of the car, through the mobile phone software to find the way, by sharing the trip, can reduce fuel and other expenses. The price of this kind of carpool is significantly lower than that of taxis. It is reported that the initial name of the hitch company when it started its business was Corralrides, who wanted to be the aggregator of the three taxi software, where users could find drivers in one app without installing three independent software. Interestingly, at the outset, Lyft also had a dispute with Corralrides. Lyft requires the other party to delete their own information from the application software, that the relevant description, contrary to their own operating purposes. It is reported to have been the second acquisition by Lyft in the relevant field. Earlier, Lyft bought a company called Rover, the company's strength, is to help people calculate the best way and plan to take public transport. U.S. Science and Technology news website VentureBeat analysis that in Uber and Lyft these two taxi software giants in contention, Uber in the technology development of investment and accumulation of more, has been in the introduction of new features and new services. and Lyft Technical Reserve is relatively backward, so the merger of the same company, became a Lyft competition strategy. In the United States, Lyft taxi software The biggest feature is to allow private cars idle resources of ordinary people, temporary taxi driver soliciting. When the passenger is being picked up, the front of the car will be hung with a pink beard, which is the biggest sign of the Lyft. This pink beard also provides ordinary people with a means to earn extra money, and Lyft services, which are also promoted in many cities in the United States. According to a recent report on the Web site, Lyft Services are more pro-people, the service charge for each visitor is about 10 U.S. dollars, Uber is as high as 21 U.S. dollars. On the other hand, from last May to this May, Uber's income was nearly 12 times times that of Lyft. Obviously, Lyft is facing great pressure of Uber. Morning）