Taxi TV Screens Gain Ad Business in New York. Microsoft looks toward in-car advertising | The Car Tech blog. In a conversation with Martin Thall, the General Manager of Microsoft's Automotive Business Unit, he laid out a vision for the future of infotainment systems in cars, which included connected services supported by in-car advertising. Mr. Thall suggested that five years from now, car infotainment systems will be networked and provide the latest information on local services and traffic, as just two examples. This sort of car system should offer daily relevance, so that you could have it give you the best way home from work each day. Or, you could use local search to find a particular item for sale, or a restaurant, and the car would give the best route to that location. Your preferences for the route could vary from quickest time, the most scenic, or the route that will cause the least amount of emissions and save the most gas.
But, as Mr. We gained other insights during our conversation with Mr. Taxi union warns of ‘fisticuffs’ over illegal drivers. THE country’s biggest taxi union has warned that taxi drivers are about to start fighting in the ranks over the number of illegal drivers operating in Dublin. Tommy Gorman of the National Taxi Drivers Union said: "Legal drivers are getting ready for fisticuffs and that’s when the real trouble will start. " The issue is the number of drivers who are operating illegally in the capital and elsewhere in the country. They often operate off a license issued to another person even though they have no entitlement to drive the cars themselves.
There are now so many, Mr Gorman claims, that they are forcing legal taxis out of business. He said gardaí carried out a concerted weekend enforcement operation to detect illegal cars last week. Gardaí carried laptops on which they could verify if drivers had licences. "All the illegals disappeared from the streets. "We have now sent a strong message to the Taxi Regulator Kathleen Doyle that she better do something about this business. . * www.taxireg.ie. Need a Driver ASAP? There's an App for That. One benefit of living in an urban environment is that it's pretty easy to walk from point A to point B.
If it's a far distance (or if the weather is inclement), you can hop on the bus or subway. And if you really deserve a treat (or you're just in a rush), you can hail a cab for a private chauffeur. But, at the risk of channeling #FirstWorldProblems, finding a cab can be kind of a nuisance. Some neighborhoods don't get good taxi traffic, and certain times of day are notoriously hard for cab-seekers to score a ride. The taxi industry — $31 billion a year in the U.S. and Europe — is ripe for innovation, especially as cities become more densely populated, and these services need to transport more people. More than 60% of people in London, Moscow and New York City ride in a taxi at least once a month, and of the 1 million cars in Manhattan, 60,000 are taxis. But two companies are reinventing the city schlepping experience, albeit in different ways.
GetTaxi Uber. Illegal taxis in Shanghai facing crackdown |Society. Kenyan and Ugandan start-ups make location pay its way. 17 July 2012Last updated at 03:13 GMT By Fiona Graham Technology of business reporter, BBC News, Nairobi and Kampala Foursquare for Africa? : Mambo Italia's Nish Shah explains to a customer how to check in using the NikoHapa service using his mobile phone "If you go to the big supermarkets like Nakumatt, they have smart cards. Of course you are happy to carry Nakumatt's loyalty card - but you're not going to carry mine. " Nish Shah runs Mambo Italia, an outlet located in the airy, baked dough-scented food court of an up-market Nairobi shopping centre.
The Galleria is just one of the malls sprinkled across affluent areas of the city catering to the fast-growing middle class and expatriates. Competition in the pizza business is fierce, so Mr Shah is now using a service called NikoHapa - Swahili for 'I am here' - that lets users check in on Facebook and Twitter using their mobile phones. Customers check in by scanning a QR code or by texting a number. "In Kenya, mobile rules. " Upward mobility. Click A Taxi goes for country coverage via app, opens up UK and Ireland. There never seems to be a taxi when you need one so perhaps Click A Taxi, a mobile application launched fresh on to the UK and Ireland markets yesterday, can plug that gap. Unlike other startups in the space, the company says it is going for countrywide coverage as opposed to just focusing on cities.
The app, also live in Scandinavia, takes advantage of GPS to pinpoint the customer once they have booked a taxi and refer the booking to the nearest taxi partner. Taxi companies are then charged a small service fee. By the end of the year, the plan is to extend it to all of Western Europe and other parts of the world for a slice of the Euros 27 billion potential market. On angel investment of Euro 500,000 the startup has already built up a sizeable team of 18 including: Søren Halskov Nissen, CEO and co-founderPeter Theill, co-founder, developmentMichael Vivet, co-founder and director of developmentNikolaj Køster, co-founder and director of communications None.
Only hire A people. Tnooz view: Mobile taxi app launches across Ireland on iOS and Android devices. A new smartphone app that allows Irish smartphone owners to book a taxi on their mobiles in any town or city in Ireland went live today. Click A Taxi has partnered with local taxi companies in Ireland and the UK and will roll out across Europe throughout the summer. Click A Taxi is now available in Ireland, the UK, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and by the end of the summer it will cover most of Western Europe, co-founder Nikolaj Køster said. “We’ve done the hard work of selecting trusted partners that have been vetted for quality, safety and pricing,” he said. When a smartphone user books a taxi via Click A Taxi, satellite navigation (GPS) locates the address and offers a simple ‘Book Now’ option. The app automatically selects the nearest taxi partner and provides regular updates on the arrival time. Click A Taxi is a free app and doesn’t charge any fee for booked journeys.
John Kennedy. Pre-tax profits at country’s largest taxi company plunge. PRE-TAX profits at the country’s largest taxi company, National Radio Cabs, last year plunged by 81% from €426,736 to €78,131. Accounts just filed by National Radio Cabs plc with the Companies Registration Office show that the company sustained the severe decrease in pre-tax profits after the company’s revenues dropped by 25% from €15m in 2009 to €11.2m to the end of February 2010. The figures show that in spite of the drop in turnover, the company’s administrative costs decreased only marginally from €2.36m to €2.33m. This contributed to the company’s operating profits dropping by 61% from €587,945 to €225,249. Director of Operations at National Radio Cabs, Michael Branagan, said yesterday: “In general we were happy with our performance considering the current economic climate.” Mr Branagan said that one of the main factors in the drop in profits “was discounts which the corporate and the general public required due again to the recession”. © Irish Examiner Ltd.
Digital taxi. Chief editor - Vladimir Krylov Deputy chief editor - Michael Nikoulichev Old taxi cabs gradually disappear from city streets giving way to new and modern models. Try to find in Germany a cab that's not a flashy Mercedes! Naturally, this upgrade usually includes numerous technical gadgets that are added to the taxi. At present two major trends can be easily seen: installing GPS-systems, video cameras and recorders (traffic safety features) and installing video screens and digital monitors in taxi headrests and other places. Most common are 7” or 9” screens of 16:9 format, though variations are not uncommon.
The cab with touchpad advertizing screen turns into a mobile media complex where passengers may look through offered advertising clips and informational resources, especially while waiting in insufferable traffic jams. Such digital advertising allows covering a wide audience of consumers with high income. However more sophisticated solutions were quick to appear. Irish Taxi » Blog Archive » Test Driving HailOcab. Roy April 21st, 2012 I have volunteered to test out the Hailocab smartphone application for Taxis which is due for general release shortly. I went into the Hailocab offices in 12 Upper mount street and was firstly given a run through how a Taxi gets booked using the passenger/user application, it seems very intuitive, automatically inputting the address using the built in geolocator (this can be refined by the customer if they wish to be picked up elsewhere), the nearest driver will be offered the job and once accepted (must do so within 15 seconds) the Taxi appears on the customers screen as an icon on a map and they can view it approaching along along with an estimated time of arrival.
The driver application is FANTASTIC! If I never get a job from it, it’ll still be the best application on my iPhone by a mile, simply for the information it provides, most of all, the “shift report” facility. The first thing you do when you start your shift is change the shift status to “On shift” Free! How Taxi Magic works its magic. Ordering a cab over the phone can be a pain.
First, you’ll probably hear a couple of minutes of hold music. Then, unless you keep calling back over and over, you’ll never know how far away your cab is—or whether it's even on the way. And sometimes, your cab just never shows up. If you dread calling a cab, you should try RideCharge’s free Taxi Magic app for iOS and Android. The app makes booking a cab about as interesting, informative, and interactive as a mundane task has ever been. With a few taps in a smartphone app, Taxi Magic lets you book a cab, learn the driver’s name, see your cab approaching on a map in real time, and pay for the ride using your phone. According to RideCharge CEO Tom DePasquale, 70 percent of taxis in the U.S. already have Taxi Magic-compatible dispatch technology installed, including GPS tracking technology and the ability to tell whether a cab's meter is running. At the moment, Taxi Magic is up and running on 85 taxi-dispatching fleets in 45 states. Taxis are ripe for reform. Allan Fels The taxi industry in Victoria – and undoubtedly in the rest of Australia – needs to be overhauled from top to bottom.
Customers must come first. The public has little confidence in the system. Extensive investigation tells us that Victoria’s taxi industry is in sharp decline, with customer satisfaction levels at record lows of 55 per cent. This is unacceptable. Most people know that there are restrictions on the number of taxis and hire cars that are difficult to justify on public benefit grounds. The reforms detailed in my report aim to address these problems at their root causes, by increasing and improving the supply of taxi and hire cars, restoring public confidence and trust in the system, and boosting demand for services.
More and better taxi and hire cars services can be delivered through changing the licensing regime, and better harnessing the forces of competition. Taxi licences will no longer be limited in quantity, but rationed by price. Clear and Straight-forward Surge Pricing. When we build products at Uber, we want the user to have a great experience – convenient, classy and reliable. That means that our products are easy to use, that the service is available when you need it and that you have the information you need to use the service as you see fit. During Halloween and New Year’s Eve last year, we turned on surge pricing to handle the extreme demand generated by these holidays.
For the uninitiated, surge pricing helps maximize the number of Uber cars on the system during times of extreme demand, maximizing the chance that there will be a car available when you need one. For more details, see our post on Surge Pricing. Following New Year’s, we received a fair amount of feedback to improve the UI around surge pricing to make it clearer and more straight-forward. So, in our latest app update, we’ve updated our surge pricing messaging. Uber’s job is to bring efficiency to the world of car service. Ichak adizes ten stages - corporate life cycle.
Home » leadership/management » ichak adizes - corporate life cycle model dr ichak adizes ten stages of corporate life cycle Dr Ichak Adizes is a renowned business guru and theorist, and founder of the Adizes Institute, now the home of the Adizes organisational development methodology and its related services. Adizes' simple ten-stage corporate life cycle model is an elegant way to learn and understand the typical life-cycle stages that many businesses pass through, from conception to cessation, and is an example of the fine work and thinking of the Adizes Institute and its founder, which extend considerably beyond this model.
There is no pre-set timescale for this corporate life-cycle, and many organisations do not fit this model. However the life-cycle stages that Ichak Adizes describes in his model provide a useful basis for understanding a fundamental perspective of organisational change, and the principle that organisational ageing, with all that this implies, is inevitable. see also. Enforce rule on taxicab receipts, agencies urged - News - Manila Standard Today - Daily news, current events, latest news in the Philippines Sites site. GetTaxi Grabs $20 Million Funding To Bring NYC’s Taxis Into The Digital Age. GetTaxi, an app aimed at letting people order taxis from their smartphones or via the web, has already gained significant traction in the UK, Russia and Israel. But now it has its sights set on conquering the United States — and New York City is the first on its list.
So, the company is announcing today, it has raised $20 million in brand new funding to help fund its expansion efforts. The $20 million serves as a follow-on funding round for GetTaxi, and it was led by previous investors Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries with participation by company founders Shahar Waiser and Roi More. GetTaxi, which was founded in 2010, had previously raised $11 million in outside venture capital, so this round brings its total outside funding to approximately $30 million. In the video embedded at the bottom of this post, you can see our interview with Jing Wang Herman, who joined GetTaxi last month to serve as its CEO of US operations.
Of course, GetTaxi isn’t without its competitors. Taxi Industry Inquiry homepage | Taxi Industry Inquiry. NY Taxi and Limousine Commission Considers a Taxi Hailing App.