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Cap surge pricing by Uber, Ola at 25 per cent: SJM urges Transport Ministry

The SJM also demanded that in case of ride cancellation by a taxi-app company or the driver, Rs 100 or an amount equivalent to 20 per cent of the fare should be credited as a penalty

Surge pricing for Ola, Uber: New rules may cap it at three times base fare

Karnataka already has a minimum and maximum fare for app-based cab companies

Ola acqui-hires AI and computer vision start-up Pikup.ai, mum on deal value

As part of the deal, the team at Pikup.ai will join Ola, which is increasing its focus on using advanced analytics and deep technology to build futuristic mobility solutions

Ola to enable sustainable livelihoods for 500K women through its foundation

The foundation would enable economic empowerment for women through employment-linked skills training, financial literacy and social empowerment through life-skills education

No official notice to halt car-pooling in Karnataka: Ola, Uber sources

Ride sharing companies will need to maintain a fine balance between meeting the demands of the customers as well as the needs of their partner networks, say analysts

Ola plans to design, develop electric vehicles at Palo Alto facility

Ola is now searching for a head of engineering, who would direct the research and development programme

Tackled Uber with guerrilla-like plan, says Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal

Aggarwal likened the company's strategy to guerrillas stating they will "fight the nooks and corners" and win in the long term

Ola sets up tech centre in San Francisco, home turf of rival Uber

The Bengaluru-based firm looks to build a team of over 150 engineers working out of this centre on developing next-generation technologies in mobility

Ola to hire more than 150 engineers for Silicon Valley technology centre

The proposed centre will focus on research into areas from electric cars to autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence, the company said

Ola plans e-rickshaws, revives talks with original equipment manufacturers

In 2018, Ola had spoken to all major autorickshaw OEMs in this regard. These talks, however, did not progress and went into cold storage

Ola may pause international expansion for the second time in 2 years

The ride-hailing firm is also slowing down investments in existing international markets

UK-India Awards 2019: Ola, Oyo on 'Market Entrant of the Year' shortlist

Taxi hailing firm Ola and hospitality group Oyo, which entered the UK market last year, will compete with Taj Vivanta in the Market Entrant of the Year category

Ola to focus more on own private label food brands through cloud kitchens

The SoftBank backed company would focus more on its own private label food brands and expand its network of cloud kitchens across the country

Electric drive: Ola bets on two, three-wheelers, says e-cars to take time

Expecting rapid adoption of four-wheeler electric vehicles at a mass scale to take time, ride-hailing firm Ola is betting big on two and three-wheelers for its electric mobility drive, according to a senior company official. With lessons learnt from its experiment in Nagpur, where the company had partnered with Mahindra & Mahindra in 2017 for a multi-modal electric mass mobility project, Ola believes right now "four-wheelers are not yet ready" for such usage in India on a large scale. Therefore, the company is now focussing on deploying 10,000 electric vehicles (EVs), a mix of two and three-wheelers, on Indian roads by the end of March 2020. "The biggest lesson (from Nagpur) was that (electric) four-wheelers are not yet ready. It is going to take a couple of years for the math on four-wheelers to work," Ola Electric Mobility (OEM) co-founder Anand Shah told PTI. He, however, said the company hasn't given up as it is confident that electrification is viable in the long run. Sharing

Ola in talks with Audi, Merc, BMW for self-drive subscription service

The company is in talks with carmakers like Audi, Mercedes and BMW to bring to India a model where users can get access to luxury cars by paying a subscription fee.

Why Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal turned down a $1.1-billion SoftBank deal

Masayoshi Son struck a preliminary deal to put another $1.1 billion into Ola to boost his stake to more than 40 per cent, according to people familiar with the matter

Hitching a ride: After Uber, rival Ola to make Dubai its next pit stop

Ola, which has been eyeing a $1.5-2 billion funding round, Dubai also opens up a set of investors

Ola drives into in 3 more UK cities; Birmingham, Reading and Liverpool

In the UK, Ola is the only app that offers black cabs and private hire vehicles, giving both driver-partners as well as users, more choice

Ola expands footprint in UK, drives into Liverpool, Reading, Birmingham

Ola started Liverpool operation by offering free rides on green tuk-tuks last week for a limited time period, as a part of the promotional campaign

After Ola investment, Sachin Bansal backs scooter sharing start-up Vogo

Vogo is also betting big on India's growing traffic congestion