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Move on over, ZipCar, because the industry you birthed has a few new players in town.  Although these sites don’t offer the taxi-sharing and taxi-booking options that define the CabCorner business model, they nonetheless operate in the same space (Social Transportation Logistics).
Check out Google-backed RelayRides, and the similar site GetAround, both of which enable car [...]

I’m proud to report that we just completed our third and final competitor acquisition of the year.  Singapore-based Tagxe was one of the early entrants to the cab-sharing game, and we are excited to bring its users into the CabCorner experience.  This deal expands CabCorner’s global footprint, and positions it for success in one of [...]

For close to two years, CabCorner’s pitched itself primarily as a “cab-sharing” platform.  Yet the ever-elusive “critical mass”–which refers to the level of usage by people in the same area headed the same direction around the same time–proved as difficult for us to capture as it had to our competitors.  (Rest in peace, RidePenguin….)
So we [...]

Who would have believed that about a year before McKinney decided to breathe life into his dream, Scott Adams had already exhaled the concept in a blog post?
Yes, the creator of Dilbert envisioned a world where empty backseat real estate was a thing of the past.  Read his musings by clicking the links below.

How I [...]

Friends and Fans:
It’s been an exhausting couple weeks.  Varun finished the Phase 2 Beta development tasks and we’re reviewing the site for a few final flaws, but the platform is essentially stable.  We’ve been receiving some GREAT user feedback on the site AND on the iPhone application.
Also, am I the only one who felt shivers [...]

CabCorner is more than a science to connect individuals located in the same area who are headed the same direction around the same time.  It’s also a Fare Calculator–enabling commuters to get a rough estimate of their cab costs should they choose to travel by taxi–as well as an index of livery (private) cab companies, [...]

Recently, I stumbled across a few more cab sharing services out there… yet was surprised to discover that they were operated by public agencies… as opposed to for-profit competitors.  Often, these entities have a regional focus and a tailored objective.  With a little more research, we’ll be able to better understand how to make the [...]

In a throwback to our announcement this past spring that we had acquired competitor CabEasy.com, I am absolutely thrilled to announce that CabCorner has acquired “cab-sharing industry pioneer” Hitchsters.com.
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Founded in 2006, Hitchsters birthed an idea that captivated the internet.  The site received extensive media coverage, even finding its way onto Time Magazine’s 50 Best Websites [...]

Check out the press release.  It demonstrates that interest for the city’s cab-sharing solutions are growing.  A positive sign for CabCorner and other shared transportation logistics platforms.

Tonight, in discussing a blog post he had come across a few months ago, Jon said the following:
“People want to share cabs, they just don’t have an idea as to where the act of meeting would take place, or they can’t get to one that is convenient for them.”
He was speaking, of course, about NYC’s [...]