Hailo Ireland is running a special promotion today December 11 2016. The promotion is aimed at shoppers and will give 50% off rides that cost €10 or more to a maximum discount of €10. Using the code SUNDAYSHOPPER Hailo users nationwide will save 50% off fares between 10am and 5pm today. If you’re not sure […]
Hailo, Ireland’s leading transport app, is advising customers to avoid delays and travel at off-peak times during the upcoming 48 hour Dublin Bus strike on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th September. The company is anticipating strong demand for taxis during this time, so they are offering a discount to encourage users to travel at off-peak times where […]
Hailo Ireland has today announced that it has passed 100,000 journeys on its Hailo for Business platform in Ireland. The announcement was made at a Hailo/The Dean business breakfast this morning, which focused on scaling technology businesses in the Irish market. Ireland’s leading transport app, Hailo revealed that it now has over 500 business accounts, […]
Blacknight CEO Michele Neylon and I got together in his office on Friday for our first podcast chat of 2016 – and it’s been a busy year so far. Michele brings us up to date on his recent trips to Las Vegas and Turkey and talked about a recent spate of phishing attacks which are specifically targeting […]
About 5 minutes after the taxi dropped me off, I was still searching my accommodation for my bag when the sickening realisation dawned. I’d left my bag, laptop, camera and microphones in the boot of the car. Almost as suddenly, I realised that I had the drivers details, as I had used Hailo to call […]
Irish taxi technology company iCabbi has announced that it is targetting €15M annual recurring revenue (ARR) within two years with expansion in the UK and US. The company has seen exponential growth of 300% in the past year on the back of seed funding rounds totalling €1 million in 2012 and 2013. These were led by Dublin […]
Hailo Ireland, the taxi app, has come up with a nice way to wish their customers a Happy St Patrick’s Day: a Hailo credit if your driver’s called Patrick, Paddy, Patricia, Pádraig or some variation thereof. The offer applies today and tomorrow – St Patrick’s Day – and if you get a suitably named driver, all […]
If you use Hailo, Uber or any of the other companies operating in the “ride sharing” space you’ve probably fallen in love with some features, but you might also have noticed some that are missing. A lot of my friends and colleagues use Uber and Hailo when we’re travelling. It’s simple. You fire up the […]
Hailo, the taxi hailing app has announced that it is pulling out of North America because it says the price war between local ride-sharing startups Uber and Lyft is making it “impossible” to be profitable there. The Financial Times reports that co-founder and co-CEO Jay Bergman is leaving the company, leaving the other CEO, Tom Barr in charge. […]
Steve Del Bianco is the guest on today’s podcast (42:16; 24MB; MP3). He’s the executive director of NetChoice, “a trade association of eCommerce businesses and online consumers all of whom share the goal of promoting convenience, choice, and commerce on the net”. Steve is based in Washington DC, where he lobbies on internet issues, but the latest issue he’s focused on is playing […]
