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Singapore-based tech firm Mass Vehicle Ledger (MLV) launched its ride-hailing app TADA in Ho Chi Minh City Monday. HCMC is the third Southeast Asian market that the firm is entering after Singapore and Cambodia. Instead of billing commissions from drivers…
The government is preparing to launch regulations fixing the rates drivers and riders for ride-hailing services such as Grab and Go-Jek receive, two officials said this week, creating potential obstacles for the companies’ expansion. The regulations would…
Indonesia’s Go-Jek suffered a setback to its expansion plans on Wednesday after the transportation regulator in the Philippines rejected its application to launch a ride-hailing service, saying its domestic unit did not meet local ownership criteria. However,…
Indonesian ride-hailing firm Go-Jek kicked off a trial launch in parts of Singapore on Thursday and plans to roll out an array of services through its app in early 2019, challenging dominant player Grab in the small city-state. Both Go-Jek and Grab are…
Vietnamese ride-hailing services are struggling to compete with foreign firms Grab and Go-Viet due to a lack of resources. FastGo last month claimed to have 15,000 taxi and motorbike partner drivers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, but they are not a common…
Indonesian ride-hailing firm Go-Jek on Wednesday launched its services in Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi under the brand Go-Viet. The move is part of Go-Jek’s $500-million international expansion. The app-based on-demand service Go-Viet, driven by a Vietnamese…
Indonesian ride-hailing and online payment company Go-Jek said on Tuesday (04/09) that it will partner with three peer-to-peer lending firms as the startup looks to expand its financial technology services in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. Go-Jek, whose…
Indonesian ride-hailing app Go-Jek will officially launch in Vietnam this July, bringing more competition to the market currently dominated by Grab after it had acquired Uber’s Southeast Asia operations in March. Founded in 2010, the Indonesian transport…
Go-Jek has raised a higher than targeted $1.5 billion in a fundraising round from a dozen investors, including BlackRock and Google, as the Indonesian ride-hailing firm builds its war chest to fight deep-pocketed rivals. Go-Jek had planned last year to raise…
Indonesia-based leading startup GO-JEK on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Pune-based mobile application developer Leftshift for upscaling its product development, design and engineering platforms. This is the fourth Indian start-up acquisition by the…
Watch out Gojek, competitor GrabBike has come to Bali. Ride-hailing app Grab has announced that it launched both GrabBike and GrabExpress services in Bali, as of Oct. 22. Like Gojek, GrabBike allows you to order motorbike taxis, while GrabExpress is Grab’s…
UberJek, an app-based transport service, has officially started operation on Sunday, May 15. Aris Wahyudi, UberJEK’s co-founder, claims cheaper tariffs compared to its competitors. “Our tariff is different from those of the competitors. Our tariff will…
Motorcycle taxis, known as ojeks, have long offered a fast way for residents to cheaply zigzag through gridlocked roads in Jakarta, a city knocked for having the world’s worst traffic. But, until recently, they were informal and inefficient – ojek drivers…
