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Two of India’s largest cab aggregators, Ola and Uber, clocked over 500 million rides in 2016, according to a report by RedSeer Management Consulting. Even though the two companies faced a lot of challenges in India, they managed to rake…

At one point of time, a joke was making the rounds that an Ola or an Uber driver makes more than an average fresh graduate, and further this claim was actually true. Ola and Uber drivers could easily make up to Rs. 80,000 to Rs.…

An interesting case of legal logjam is being witnessed in the State of Karnataka, wherein taxi-hailing app Uber has very publicly, and on some level bravely, refused to obey the State Govt.’s order on stopping their ride-sharing…

The market leaders in the cab-aggregation business, Ola and Uber, have been enjoying their supremacy over Easycabs and Meru cabs, even though these two have been here for lesser time. However, to up its game and get back into the…

Ola Share was launched in 2015, and since then has come a long way to counter uberPOOL, its biggest competitor. The company introduced a lot of other services, but kept the Share service pretty much the same. Now making a small dent…

The purpose of advertisements is no doubt, to seek attention. But sometimes, creative agencies and marketing professionals go one step ahead, and cross the boundary between senseful and senseless creative, thereby attracting the ire of…

If 2016 witnessed continued confrontation between various state governments and app-based cab aggregators such as Uber, Ola; then 2017 may lead to a better understanding of the new business model, and mutual co-operation for the benefit…

Uber launched a pilot service in Mumbai to allow passengers to stream their music from Gaana app in their ride. The pilot did not kick off well because there were not many users, and immediately shut down after a couple of weeks. Ola…

Ola, India’s largest cab-aggregator, launched the Ola Corporate service to make available a wide range of mobility use cases at a much lower costs as against the existing scheduled corporate travel options, along with benefits of a…

Govt. of India is right now drafting policies of app based taxi operators like Ola and Uber, and as per indications received till now, surge pricing maybe allowed upto 3-times. This is a sharp reversal from earlier stand taken by…