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This app essentially enables you to request a chauffeur-driven luxury car in seconds through your telephone - whenever you want! Convenient, quick, classy and affordable. Use Uber wherever you are in the world, whether its after a late night at Franks or if you've landed at Heathrow airport. No need for cash as Uber will take payment off your credit card that you have loaded onto you account. Rate your driver and your driver rates you. So if you're a knob, chances are you won't get picked up again! This is yours!

About the company:

• Uber has raised USD250m, including significant from Google, their largest investment to-date in a start-up
• Uber presence is around the world: Active in San Francisco only in 2009, they now operate in 60 cities in 22 countries.
• Uber presence in South Africa? They have been operating in Joburg for 3 months, in Cape Town for 2 months and in Durban for 1 month. They have several dozen partners that work with their platform in the country.
• Their cars? This is a luxury private driver service, at an affordable price. The cars are high-end (Mercedes, BMW) and the rates are competitive.

Uber in the press:

• Uber as Fast Company's #6 Most Innovative Company of 2013
• Forbes Top 10 Tech Companies of 2012
• ”Uber Is Growing Faster than eBay Did”
• Joburg first city in Africa to get revolutionary cab service