taxi
Hailo Hail-By-App Cab Service Makes It Stateside, Opens For Business In Boston
Hailo, the company that began life as an app for easily hailing and paying for black cab service in London less than a year ago, has now officially kicked off…
Hailo Launches App-Based Cab Service In Toronto As A Fully-Licensed Taxi Company
Hailo is making the trip overseas from the U.K. with its first North American launch today, as it officially debuts its service in Toronto. From launch, Hailo faces stiff competition – Uber…
Travis Kalanick: Uber Raised $37M In Its Latest Round, Not $32M
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick took the stage to discuss the state of the disruptive limo and taxi startup and its prospects for the…
Services like Uber, Taxi Magic, Cabulous, and SideCar are completely disrupting the way we get around our cities. But almost all of them use private services, excluding the city’s public…
Uber Spins Its Latest Variation On Car Rides: DJs On Party Buses In Chicago
Uber is still growing its business as a disruptive (sometimes controversial) car service app, but in the meantime it continues to push the envelope on what else it might eventually…
Uber Learns To Drive On The Left, Soft Launches In London
Uber, the breakthrough car service app with big ambitions to do much more, is now making its way to international markets: today the car service company kicked off its London…
UberCab Ordered to Cease And Desist
Did Ubercab just crash and burn? Taxi and limo industry insiders in California today informed TechCrunch that the San Francisco Metro Transit Authority & the Public Utilities Commission of California…
Cab drivers in New York could lose their cellphones (to promote safe driving)
The Taxi and Limousine Commission in New York wants passengers to have a safe, swift ride every time they flags down one of its taxis. To that end the commission…
Do you have no-good, bratty, whiney kids who think the world revolves around them and make you drive them to all the cool hangouts around town just so they can…
Part rickshaw, part cab, but all green — it’s the EcoCab. Come to think of it, “part cab” might be stretching it just a tad, since most cabs can, oh…
Fueled by a 65-square foot trailer covered with solar panels, this three-wheeled, two-seat taxi is making its way around the world without stopping for gas. It was developed by a…
Some of us have trouble pulling ourselves away from the computer and sometimes that can be OK. But if you need your fix of video gaming and Internet surfing and…
I only use cabs in the city when I’m trying to get my mack on and I have no time for that silly subway. But if I should come across…
If you live in NYC like some of us, you know that cabs are nothing exciting. They’re just fast transportation (well, sometimes at least) from one point to another for…