Uber, translated as "Uber" in Chinese, is a technology company in Silicon Valley, USA. They provide a car service, similar to taking a taxi. Uber can call a car, calculate the distance and settle the fee through Uber.
Enter Chinese mainland.
On July 201April 14, Uber, an American car-hailing application, officially announced its entry into the Beijing market. Uber has been in Beijing for two and a half months, mainly covering Sanlitun and Guo Mao. Beijing is the100th city in the world.
Uber CEO travis kalanick personally came to Beijing to announce the news.
20 14,101On October 20th, Uber announced that People's Uber will be launched in seven new cities in China, including Tianjin, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Han and Yong. Through Uber platform, passengers can find the owner and share the corresponding travel expenses with the owner, thus obtaining carpooling service.
Every trip has to go through Uber's system. At the end of the ride, Uber will ask the rider and the owner to rate each other so that the system can match the service for both parties. ?
Liu Zhen, Senior Vice President of Uber China Strategy, said in an interview in Hong Kong on June 3, 2006 that Uber will surpass Didi Chuxing in the China market and become the leader of the private car market in China in the next two months. ?
On 20 16 65438+ 10/3, Uber launched the carpool service "Uber Plus" in five cities: Nanjing, Beijing, Han, Chongqing and Qingdao.
On 20th1June15th, Uber announced its entry into Kunming, the 60th city in China. ?
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BEIJING, Beijing, August/KOOC-0/Sunday (Wu Tao) On August/KOOC-0/Sunday, Didi Chuxing announced that it had reached a strategic agreement with Uber Global, and Didi Chuxing would acquire all assets such as brand, business and data of Uber China to operate in Chinese mainland.
It is reported that after the two sides reach a strategic agreement, Didi Chuxing and Uber Global will hold shares in each other and become the minority shareholders of each other. Uber Global will hold 5.89% equity of Didi, which is equivalent to 17.7% economic benefits, and the other Chinese shareholders of Uber China will receive a total of 2.3% economic benefits.
Didi has thus become the only company jointly invested by Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu. At the same time, Cheng Wei, founder and chairman of Didi Chuxing, will join the global board of Uber. Uber founder travis kalanick will also join the board of Didi Chuxing.
In the future, Uber China will maintain the independence of its brand and operation. Didi Chuxing will integrate the experience and expertise of both teams in management and technology, and realize resource sharing and coordinated development in terms of user resources, online and offline operations, marketing and promotion.
At the same time, Didi Chuxing will also advocate internal competition and mutual promotion, meet the increasingly rich travel needs of consumers with more refined and diversified innovative services, and continuously increase the income of drivers.
Didi Chuxing will also work closely with regulators to continue market cultivation; Create a healthy and orderly industry ecology, and make more positive contributions to China's economic growth and employment transformation.
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