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Rocket Internet’s Easytaxi quits Asia
A victory for Asia’s homegrown transportation startups. Now they can focus totally on battling Uber.
Steven Millward · · 3 min read
Rocket Internet’s Easy Taxi exits Taiwan, marking yet another withdrawal from Asia
The taxi-hailing company bites the dust for the fifth time in Asia.
Josh Horwitz · · 3 min read
Rocket Internet launches ecommerce store in Myanmar
Myanmar now has an ecommerce marketplace. A Rocket Internet executive explains why the German startup dynamo wants to be “the Amazon of frontier markets.”
Steven Millward · · 6 min read
Why Singapore’s regulations on taxi apps are bad for consumers
These regulations aren’t solving the real problem: existing regulations that are curtailing taxi supply.
Tomas Forgac · · 4 min read
In Southeast Asia, a taxi revolution is underway (#StartupAsia preview)
Taxi systems suck in Southeast Asia. But change is underway.
Terence Lee · · 3 min read3 entrepreneurs give their take on the why and how of regional expansion (VIDEO)
They each brought their respective expansion stories and experiences to the table.
Daniel Tay · · 5 min readRocket Internet ready for IPO blast-off later this year
Rocket Internet – which runs major web services and estores such as EasyTaxi, Foodpanda, and Lazada – intends to proceed with an IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange this year.
Steven Millward · · 2 min readSingapore government’s latest crackdown on drivers who use mobile devices falls short
One rule will cover the use of a whole slew of mobile communication devices, such as tablets and smartphones, while driving.
Daniel Tay · · 3 min readEasy Taxi muscles into corporations, makes Comfort more uncomfortable
Easy Taxi isn’t just content with tackling the consumer space. It’s taking the fight to Comfort by getting corporate customers too.
Terence Lee · · 3 min readUber just got cheaper in India. Watch out Ola, Meru, and TaxiForSure
Sundeep Rao, one of Bangalore’s well-known comic; Manoviraj Khosla, fashion designer; and Phanindra Sama, Founder & CEO, RedBus check out the new uberX service in Bangalore. App-connected transportation service Uber
Malavika Velayanikal · · 2 min read