Taxi-hailing smartphone app Uber is making a big push into Asia with the company starting operations in 18 cities in Asia and the South Pacific including Seoul, Shanghai, Bangkok, Hong Kong and five Indian cities in the last year.
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Traditional black-and-yellow licensed cabs and private cabs stand at a parking lot at the airport in Mumbai, India. Rajanish Kakade / AP Photo -
An Uber taxi drives past traditional black-and-yellow licensed cabs in New Delhi, India. Saurabh Das / AP Photo -
A worker dismantles a taxi at a junk yard in Mumbai, India. The distinctive black-and-yellow licensed cabs number just 42,000 in Mumbai, inadequate for a city of 22 million. Rajanish Kakade / AP Photo -
Aan Indian taxi driver sleeps inside his traditional black-and-yellow licensed cab as he waits for customers in New Delhi, India. Most licensed taxis are banned from having air conditioning under an archaic municipal rule, leaving passengers suffering with rolled-down windows in suffocating heat and noxious pollution. Saurabh Das / AP Photo -
Uber driver Dinish Karamsesula, right, whose employer partnered with the company in Mumbai, drives his black SUV past traditional black-and-yellow licensed cabs in Mumbai. Rafiq Maqbool / AP Photo -
Uber driver Dinish Karamsesula drives his black SUV in Mumbai, India. Taxi-hailing smartphone app Uber is making a big push into Asia but faces a slew of competitors using similar technology. Rafiq Maqbool / AP Photo -
Traditional black-and-yellow licensed cabs stand parked waiting for customers at a railway station in New Delhi. Saurabh Das / AP Photo -
A smartphone is mounted on the glass of an Uber car in Mumbai. India has two competing taxi-app companies, Meru Cabs and Ola Cabs, which Uber must contend with. Rafiq Maqbool / AP Photo
In pictures: On-demand cab service app Uber targets India
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