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Daimler buys majority stake in French car-ride app Chauffeur Prive

The Daimler-Chauffeur Prive deal, whose details weren't disclosed, is aimed at Uber and the latest example of car firms tying up with a car-ride start-ups

1 min read21 Dec 2017
Companies

Uber drivers to get free insurance cover from 1 September

Uber has partnered with ICICI Lombard General Insurance to offer insurance cover to all 450,000 drivers registered on its platform starting 1 September

1 min read30 Aug 2017
Opinion

Path dependence

The government should not be shy of thinking out of the box and developing a privacy legislation that is appropriately responsive to technology

4 min read14 Jun 2017
Companies

Ola, Uber see rides rise fourfold in 2016: report

Ride-hailing firms Ola and Uber together completed about 500 million rides in 2016, up from 130 million a year earlier, says RedSeer report

4 min read17 Feb 2017
Industry

Autos: The road ahead

Automobile industry in India is perhaps in its most exciting phase. Changing regulations, consumer behaviour have cast a shadow on the industry's growth

4 min read2 Jan 2017
Companies

Ola to offer free music, movies through tablets in cabs in bid to outdo Uber

Ola will first roll out this feature for Ola Select users in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi. It will be available to all Ola Prime cars by March next year

1 min read23 Nov 2016
Opinion

Uber economics

A new US study shows traditional taxi drivers are five times more likely to work in excess of 50 hours a week than Uber drivers, yet their earnings are comparable

1 min read23 Nov 2016
Companies

Uber starts charging additional commission from some drivers

Uber's move on commissions comes at a time when the firm and its home-grown rival Ola are trying to check cash burn by reducing driver incentives

2 min read16 Nov 2016
Companies

Govt should rein in ‘capital dumping’: Ola

Foreign capital should not be used only to offer disruptive pricing, say s Ola COO Pranay Jivrajka

2 min read7 Nov 2016
Companies

Juno, a ride-hailing start-up, wants to kill Uber with kindness

Apart from regularly interacting with its drivers, Juno CEO Talmon Marco is offering to take lower commissions and plans to distribute equity stakes in the company

10 min read26 Oct 2016
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