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Click A Taxi Celebrates Record Achievement: Launches the World’s First Global Taxi App, Now Covers More Than 1 Billion People

February 7, 2013

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, February 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –

Overnight Click A Taxi is now covering a total of 50 countries. This is up from 9
countries, hereby setting the outright record of largest global coverage for taxi apps.

Today, Click A Taxi announces the world’s first and only global taxi app. The free
award-winning app now enables more than 1 billion people to order a taxi almost anywhere,
domestically as well as globally. The global service is currently in beta with over 2,000
taxi companies that have been handpicked for the global network to ensure quality and
safety.

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Now you only need one taxi app

“We all have great free apps that work anywhere we travel: e.g. Google Maps, Airbnb
and Yelp are essential tools and we expect them to work wherever we are. Click A Taxi is
the first taxi app built on the same principles. We will help get you a taxi wherever you
are,” says Click A Taxi CEO, Soren Halskov Nissen.

Click A Taxi has spent the last 9 months meticulously mapping city after city in 50
countries. Along with the global launch, the Scandinavian company is also releasing a
completely redesigned app, which is available for download in all app-stores worldwide
today. The new app works in beta in more than 5,000 cities and brings a fleet of 300,000
taxis to life for its users.

To provide reliable taxis anywhere, Click A Taxi works with a variety of technology
companies, including Google. Sanjay Patel, Head of Google Enterprise Geo, EMEA, says:

“We are pleased that Click A Taxi have chosen Google Maps for Business to support
their service. Through new, innovative ways to use our geolocation technology, they are
able to give taxi customers all over the world an accurate service.”

The new app is available as a free download today at http://www.clickataxi.com

About Click A Taxi

Click A Taxi is the world’s only global taxi network and an industry leader in
providing next generation digital tools for the global taxi market. The network includes
more than 2,000 of the world’s best taxi companies and the free Click A Taxi consumer app
works in beta in more than 5,000 cities. Each city has a hand picked company to ensure
users get taxis quickly and safely. Click A Taxi was founded in 2010 and is based in
Copenhagen, Denmark. The company has raised USD $2.1 million in funding.

        Click A Taxi press contact
        Nikolaj Koster, Co-founder and Head of Communications
        Phone: +45-2720-2940 or e-mail nk@clickataxi.com


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