Rocket Internet's EasyTaxi Gets Funding For More Asian Expansion

Rocket Internet's taxi booking service EasyTaxi has secured $15 million in funding for its global expansion.

EasyTaxi is proving controversial in Malaysia where TechCrunch uncovered evidence that representatives of the Rocket Internet startup, which launched just last month in Kuala Lumpur, have been aggressively targeting taxi drivers who are using homegrown service MyTeksi.

The EasyTaxi tactic is apparently to delete the rival app (ios apps, android app) manually from taxi driver's smartphones.



EasyTaxi's Dennis Wang says that the taxi finding and booking app has seen one million downloads around the world.

There are now 30,000 taxi drivers in its network across 30 cities in nine countries.
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