Anita Snow, Associated Press
Municipalities, like Phoenix, looking to tax increasingly popular ridehailing services to raise revenue will almost certainly face huge pushback from flyers. Will local tourism and convention businesses eventually suffer?
2 months ago
Isaac Carey, Skift
Cities are getting more crowded with vehicles, and people are becoming more reluctant to use cars during business and leisure trips. Smart technology can help.
5 months ago
Yoolim Lee and Crystal Tse, Bloomberg
Amazon is upping its presence in Southeast Asia, and currently has no toehold in Indonesia. This potential investment in Gojek could be an entry point there, as well as bolster its food delivery efforts in the region.
6 months ago
Raini Hamdi, Skift
After Indonesia, Grab’s next biggest battleground is Vietnam. No surprise there, it's a rapidly growing economy with all the ingredients for a ridehailing explosion. Naturally Grab is not alone — rivals are aplenty.
6 months ago
Pavel Alpeyev, Bloomberg
With a second Vision Fund, Japan has emerged as the dominant driver of key technologies, many of which apply to travel and tourism. While the first staked ridehailing and the future of work technologies, the second is said to eye opportunities in artificial intelligence and autonomous driving.
7 months ago
Takahiko Hyuga and Pavel Alpeyev, Bloomberg
Uber wants to grow in Japan, home to its biggest investor. But ridehailing is banned there. What's a person to do? Come up with innovations, some of which it can carry globally. Here's how.
8 months ago
Raini Hamdi, Skift
What if you could use your everyday ridehailing app anywhere in the world? No more cumbersome downloads of another app or losing loyalty points from your app. That’s what Grab wants to achieve with its investment in Splyt. Too good to be true?
8 months ago
Michael Liedtke, Associated Press
Will Waymo pose a serious challenge to Uber with its autonomous ridehailing service? First it has to ensure a robot can do the job as well — if not better — than a human.
8 months ago
Raini Hamdi, Skift
In the face of a fast-growing and innovative rival, Grab’s foray into travel, starting with hotels, could give it an edge over archrival Go-Jek, which does not do travel — yet.
10 months ago
Olivia Zaleski and Eric Newcomer, Bloomberg
Looks like Lyft's initial public offering is already oversubscribed. Investors are willing to overlook its significant losses and forget that strong demand ahead of an offering does not mean success in public markets. As Facebook has shown.
11 months ago
Olivia Zaleski and Eric Newcomer, Bloomberg
Lyft aims for a market valuation of $20 billion to $25 billion, which will make its offering the biggest from a technology upstart since Snap’s IPO two years ago.
11 months ago
Eric Newcomer, Bloomberg
Given the massive bet it has on Uber, SoftBank will want to do all to ensure the ridehailing company's success — including bankrolling Uber’s very expensive self-driving car unit.
12 months ago
