Three taxi applications against Uber, soft silver backed spine hard

January 12 Afternoon news, according to news website BuzzFeed, two executives at car rental start-ups GrabTaxi and Flywheel said that the south-East Asia taxi software GrabTaxi, India Olacabs and the United States flywheel or will soon form a global alliance, Compete head-on with Uber.

Two people familiar with the matter also disclosed that the soft silver capital contributed to the establishment of the alliance. SoftBank previously invested in Uber's two rivals: last December invested $250 million in south-east Asia's largest taxi software grabtaxi,10 and invested $210 million in Indian olacabs.

GrabTaxi and Olacabs market and Uber have a number of intersection, but the first two platforms have only used the existing market taxi resources, did not and Uber like the introduction of unregistered private cars.

Speaking of the reason for SoftBank's enthusiasm for the Alliance, GrabTaxi co-founder Brian Cu said the industry's discussions generally suggest SoftBank hopes to build a global alliance of taxi apps. "Collaboration may involve information sharing and cross-platform scheduling." "Cu told the media," in the Philippines, you can also use Olacab's app to reserve a GrabTaxi taxi. This is within the achievable range. "Perhaps that is where SoftBank's intentions lie.

Ron Fisher, partner of SoftBank Capital, declined to comment.

At the same time, the CFO of the US San Francisco taxi application Flywheel said Flywheel was also engaged in a discussion of the alliance.

Brian cu says Uber initially had his own motorcade and later began expanding into private cars. Since the October November of last year, the government has been in the game. The situation is now very complex – in fact (these private car operations) are illegal and the government has been tolerating this state.

Although the Philippine government has set a taxi rate standard in Manila, the Uber private car service is below the minimum rate. Thus the impact on GrabTaxi and Easytaxi was formed.

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