MaaS Global founder and CEO Sampo Hietanen disclosed this week that the mobility-as-a-service start-up has a licensing deal with major Italian insurance company Unipol to introduce MaaS, though could offer few other details about the project. […]
The CEO and founder of financially strapped Finnish start-up MaaS Global, creator of the pioneering mobility-as-a-service app Whim, said the company is “reorganizing. That includes laying off more employees, after having closed at least one country operation last month. […]
The CEO of MaaS Global, developer of the pioneering mobility-as-a-service app Whim, said the company’s latest capital infusion of €11 million (US$12.9 million), will help the start-up expand into a “selected markets” and provide capital for continuing operations. […]
Sampo Hietanen, founder and CEO of Finland-based MaaS Global agrees with most other industry experts that public transit should form the “core” of the mobility services on offer in any mobility-as-a-service app or platform. But he contends that it would be a mistake for the agency itself to run the platform, which Cubic Transportation Systems and some transit authorities have suggested. […]
Pioneering mobility-as-a-service start-up MaaS Global plans to drop its B2C business model and will instead try to license its Whim platform and expertise to non-transport companies that want to launch MaaS to their customers, Mobility Payments has learned. […]
MaaS Global, a pioneering mobility-as-a-service platform provider, is looking for a buyer, as it faces the prospect of running out of cash, Mobility Payments has learned. […]
Sampo Hietanen, CEO of Finland-based MaaS Global, said his company’s acquisition of the Brazilian trip-planning and tracking app Quicko would help turn the app into a full-fledged mobility-as-a-service platform, while building scale for MaaS Global and its Whim technology. […]
Germany’s largest transit operator, BVG, said it’s pilot of contactless EMV payments extends to all of its nearly 1,500 buses, and the company has eliminated cash acceptance on board the vehicles, a spokesman confirmed to Mobility Payments. But officials in Berlin have not yet decided whether to make the contactless payments service permanent, he added. […]
Andy Taylor, senior director, global strategy for Cubic Transportation Systems contended that the MaaS market is at a crossroads and could fail if it doesn’t change course, including putting cities and public agencies firmly in the “driving seat” of MaaS apps. […]
There is little disputing the fact that mobility as a service has not yet lived up to its hype. And the industry’s largest automated fare collection system provider, Cubic Transportation Systems, said it believes that going forward, public transit services need to form the backbone of MaaS platforms, along with more demand-responsive transport. […]
