{"id":834,"date":"2018-06-18T06:45:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T06:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.frenify.net\/?p=834"},"modified":"2018-06-18T06:45:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T06:45:27","slug":"chinas-ride-hailing-giant-didi-to-launch-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/chinas-ride-hailing-giant-didi-to-launch-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s ride-hailing giant Didi to launch in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">China&#8217;s ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is set to launch in Melbourne, Australia, from 25 June as it continues its international expansion.<\/p>\n<p>The firm, which recently launched in Mexico, has just completed a month-long trial in close-by Geelong, Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Didi is the world&#8217;s largest ride-hailing app and is best known for driving Uber off the streets in China.<\/p>\n<p>Valued at about $56bn (\u00a339.4bn),\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-43735023\">the Chinese giant is also the world&#8217;s most valuable start-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian ride-hailing industry is currently dominated by Uber,\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-42868296\">but recent entrants to the marketplace include India&#8217;s Ola and Europe&#8217;s Taxify.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian firm GoCatch is also a player in the market.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-43735023\">China&#8217;s Uber says it&#8217;s time to go global<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-42868296\">India&#8217;s Ola to enter Australia market<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/36938812\">Uber sells its Chinese business to Didi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Didi says the service it will offer in Melbourne will be its core ride-sharing arm, Didi Express.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is set to launch in Melbourne, Australia, from 25 June as it continues its international expansion. The firm, which recently launched in Mexico, has just completed a month-long trial in close-by Geelong, Victoria. Didi is the world&#8217;s largest ride-hailing app and is best known for driving Uber off the streets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,6,9,10,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-2","category-business-of-sport","category-companies","category-entrepreneurship","category-global-trade","category-market-data","category-technology-of-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}