{"id":20,"date":"2014-10-21T14:26:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T19:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2014-10-21T14:28:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T19:28:03","slug":"hailo-taxi-app-to-leave-chicago-on-october-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/hailo-taxi-app-to-leave-chicago-on-october-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"Hailo Taxi App To Leave Chicago on October 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hailo, the taxi app for black cars and taxis, is pulling out not only from Chicago, but from North America. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tom Barr, co-chief executive and president, said Hailo would focus\u00a0on European and Asian markets\u00a0with enhanced products such as payment technology and a &#8220;concierge&#8221; service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;We have therefore decided to end our operations in North America, where the astronomical marketing spend required to compete is making profitability for any one player almost impossible&#8221;, Tom Barr said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We know Uber and Lyft \u00a0are not targetting suburban areas as much as cities, this is why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Taxi Dispatch<\/a>\u00a0is benchmarking their technology to provide Chicagoland&#8217;s suburban customers with a competive taxi service, as we have been doing for years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/download.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22\" src=\"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/download.jpg\" alt=\"hailo taxi app\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hailo, the taxi app for black cars and taxis, is pulling out not only from Chicago, but from North America. \u00a0Tom Barr, co-chief executive and president, said Hailo would focus\u00a0on European and Asian markets\u00a0with enhanced products such as payment technology and a &#8220;concierge&#8221; service. &nbsp; &#8220;We have therefore decided to end our operations in North &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/hailo-taxi-app-to-leave-chicago-on-october-26th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hailo Taxi App To Leave Chicago on October 26th<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hailo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}