It’s turning into an interesting week for Uber in Asia. The company launched a peer-to-peer ride service in Beijing — which is also, strangely, a non-profit — and now it has_expanded to cover_regular taxi cab bookings in Tokyo. Unlike other Uber services, ‘uberTAXI’ will connect customers with licensed taxis in Japan’s capital city, in the same way that rival service Grabtaxi does across Southeast Asia. Uber launched a similar cab service in London in June,_at the same time that_taxi drivers were protesting against its service. That makes Tokyo the second city to get this service, which is aptly being announced...
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