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Summary
- Didi Chuxing, the world’s biggest mobile transportation platform, has signed a new global strategic partnership with Taxify.
- Didi will invest in and collaborate with Taxify to support its further growth and innovation across its diversified markets.
- Estonian online taxi-hailing app Taxify launched operations in Nairobi last year.
Estonian online taxi-hailing app Taxify
has announced a new global strategic partnership with China’s Didi
Chuxing, the world’s biggest mobile transportation platform, signaling a
new round of battle for local passengers.
Taxify
launched operations in Nairobi last year taking the battle to American
ride-hailing company Uber after teaming up with a local cabs lobby
previously opposed to Uber’s entry into Kenya.
Under
the partnership, whose financial details were not made public, Didi the
company that forced Uber out of China said it will invest in and
collaborate with Taxify to support its further growth and innovation
across its diversified markets.
“Taxify will utilize
this partnership to solidify our position in core markets in Europe and
Africa,” Markus Villig, founder and CEO of Taxify, said in a statement.
Taxify
last year said it plans to venture into all major towns including
Mombasa, Nakuru and Kisumu in the next one year and recruit about 7,000
drivers.
Besides
Nairobi, Taxify currently operates in 25 other cities and 18 countries
in Europe, West Asia, Africa and Mexico and boasts over 2.5 million
users.
In comparison, Didi Chuxing is considered one of the world’s leading mobile transportation platform.
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