Cheng Wei all assets of the Chinese division of Uber, including its brand, business operations and data for operation within mainland China. Under the terms of the deal, Wei is set to become a board member of Uber and Uber's CEO also gets a seat on DiDi's board. Since the company was founded in 2012, under the leadership of Cheng Wei and Jean Liu, DiDi has grown to become one of the world’s highest valued tech start-ups. The company has evolved from a simple taxi-hailing app to taxi hailing, private car hailing, hitch (social ride-sharing), bus, minibus, chauffeur service, car rental service,
Hailo Hailo Hailo was a British technology platform that matched taxi drivers and passengers through its mobile phone application. Founded in London in 2011, the Hailo taxi service was available in 16 cities (as of December 2013). By May 2013, Hailo had enabled more than 3 million rides for passengers from over 30,000 registered taxi drivers. The Hailo Passenger App was available as a free download from the App Store and Google Play for both iOS and Android devices. In late 2016 Hailo was absorbed by mytaxi, a German e-hailing company belonging to Daimler Financial Services, to form the largest e-hailing