In December last year, America’s Lyft, Ola from India, Didi Kuaidi from China, and GrabTaxi from Singapore joined hands in a strategic alliance to roll out products in the first quarter of 2016. Today, American Lyft users can get a cab in China through Didi and GrabTaxi in Southeast Asia, reports Engadget. We've written to Ola for further details and will update this when we hear from them. American Lyft users will be able to pay for their rides by cash, credit card previously registered on the platform in China and SE Asia, and users from these regions can get a Lyft cab when they visit the US and “pay in their own currency”. This appears like a pilot roll out to test responses and behaviour to the integrated cab hailing feature. Lyft will link its app with other partners in more countries this year. This alliance is a follow up of reports from January 2015 when Ola was planning to tie with GrabTaxi to form a global taxi alliance to take on Uber. At the time of the alliances these cab booking companies said that combined, they covered 50% of the world’s population across Southeast Asia, India, China and the US. Sharing tech and knowledge: The 4 companies would collaborate to use each other’s technology, local market knowledge and business resources to offer international travelers rides using the same application native to their country, including mapping, routing and payments for their respective countries. In September 2015, Didi Kuaidi invested in Ola’s latest…
