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Blacklane is on the road to building a profitable on-demand transportation platform

Like it or loathe it, Uber changed the face of modern urban transportation by providing a relatively pain-free way to order a car to take you from A to B. But the company’s growth has done more

Uber rival Bolt returns to London 21 months after a TfL investigation shut it down

Bolt, the Uber rival formerly known as Taxify, is taking a significant step this week in its effort to build out its transportation-on-demand business across the biggest cities in Europe and Africa, w

Amazon’s secret acquisition and all the AV feels

Welcome to the TechCrunch transportation newsletter; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. I cover all the ways people and goods move from Point A to Point

Self-driving Mercedes-Benz S Class sedans are coming to San Jose

Another autonomous ride-hailing test project has popped up in the U.S. This time, Daimler and Bosch, one of the largest automotive tech and hardware suppliers in the world, are partnering to pilot a

Europe’s most popular ride-hailing service is launching e-scooters

Daimler-owned ride-hailing company mytaxi will release a fleet of e-scooters in Southern Europe later this year.

BMW and Daimler agree to merge mobility service businesses

It’s been hinted at, but Daimler and BMW are officially bringing together their mobility services business groups into one combined company, with a 50 percent stake owned by each automaker. That

Daimler buys remaining 25% stake of car sharing startup car2Go from EuropCar for $85M

German automaker Daimler has been steadily investing in a stream of new transportation services as it positions itself for the next generation of car ownership and travel. Today, it consolidated its p

Hailo app being parked in London as mytaxi migration kicks off

Uber alternative Hailo, which lets people hail a licensed taxi via smartphone app, is coming to the end of the road in London, as users are now being urged to switch to new ride-hailing vehicle, mytax

Daimler close to buying Taxibeat in Greece for around $43M

Automakers are continuing to ramp up their holdings in the world of on-demand transportation services, and in the latest development, Germany’s Daimler is closing in on a deal to acquire Taxibe

Confirmed: Hailo sells 60% of company to Daimler as it merges with MyTaxi

Some more movement and consolidation is afoot in the on-demand transportation industry, specifically in Europe. Today, Hailo is announcing that it has sold 60% of its company to Mercedes-Benz owner Da

Google Maps goes beyond Uber, adds Ola, Hailo and more car services to its app

Google reportedly is working on building its own Uber competitor, and while some believe this will come in the form of a fleet of autonomous cars, there is a more immediate option for how Google can

Car2Go’s Parent Company Moovel Acquires RideScout And myTaxi

German company moovel, which owns ride-sharing service car2go, has acquired two new transportation companies to add to its portfolio and strengthen its existing services, the company has revealed. Tho

After Initial Driver Mistrust, mytaxi’s New Marketplace Model Delivers 91% Job Acceptance Rate, Up From 85%

Introducing a radical new pricing model to an existing business is not for the faint-hearted. Just ask veteran German taxi app startup, mytaxi, which last January was preparing to shift into a new gea

mytaxi To Switch From Fixed Fee To Marketplace Model — Drivers To Choose 3%-30% Revenue Share

The taxi app wars are about to get a whole lot more interesting. German taxi startup, mytaxi, is planning to switch from taking a fixed fee cut of taxi journeys to a marketplace model where drivers ch

Maker of taxi-ordering app myTaxi raises €10 million from Daimler, Lars Hinrichs

<img src="http://eu.beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/mytaxi.png" class="shot2" /> <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/intelligent-apps">Intelligent Apps</a>, the Hamburg, Germany-based s

Maker Of Taxi-Ordering App myTaxi Raises €10 Million From Daimler, Lars Hinrichs

<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/intelligent-apps">Intelligent Apps</a>, the Hamburg, Germany-based startup behind popular taxi ordering smartphone application <a href="http://www.mytaxi.net