Updated Wed, July 6th 2016 at 10:41 GMT +3Kenyans can book a taxi using a short message starting next month. “Little Cab aims to achieve one million rides in the next six months by entrenching and differentiating ourselves as a homegrown taxi app. Mobile operator Safaricom, in a deal with tech firm Craft Silicon, unveiled the hail-a-taxi app known as Little Cab, in a market currently under the iron-grip of American company Uber. TaxifyInitially, Little Cab would be available on Android and Windows phones and would be made available on iOS platforms soon, the company officials said. This will be made possible by an app developed by Safaricom in a bold move to take on Uber, which is currently Internet-based.

Source: Standard Digital July 06, 2016 07:18 UTC