Clash of taxi apps: Hong Kong ride-hailing rivalries set to intensify as lawmaker Paul Tse’s SuperCab and taxi industry’s eTaxi arrive to take on Uber
- Lawmaker Paul Tse rolls out new app he hopes can revolutionise taxi sector
- Also to launch this month is eTaxi, with strong support from cabbies
Hong Kong’s war for ride-hailing supremacy is about to get even hotter, with legislator Paul Tse Wai-chun rolling out a new app he hopes can revolutionise the city’s taxi industry, and another app also entering the fray.
Tse, 60, stunned the taxi sector last month when he announced that Easy Planet, the technology firm that he chairs, would launch SuperCab, a new app that debuts on Tuesday.
Easy Planet is owned by the fintech start-up Benefit Vantage Limited (BVL), which is led by former financial secretary John Tsang Chun-wah. BVL was founded in 2014 by Harry Cheung Lup-sun, who once served as the Asia-Pacific managing director of Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based multinational cybersecurity and antivirus provider.
Tse, known for the Superman outfit he once wore to promote his legal practice, said the new venture was inspired by his growing desire to transform the city’s taxi sector.