{"id":1004759,"date":"2026-04-25T11:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004759"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:57:21","slug":"lyft-to-buy-getts-uk-taxi-business-marking-its-third-international-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/lyft-to-buy-getts-uk-taxi-business-marking-its-third-international-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyft to buy Gett\u2019s UK taxi business, marking its third international acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lyft has agreed to buy London black cab app Gett, its third acquisition in the past year, as the company works to expand its presence beyond the US. <\/p>\n<p>The deal for Gett\u2019s UK business would increase Lyft\u2019s driver base in Europe\u2019s largest ride-hailing market, as Gett\u2019s platform connects riders to three-quarters of registered black-cab drivers across Greater London, Lyft said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyft has agreed to buy London black cab app Gett, its third acquisition in the past year, as the company works to expand its presence beyond the US. The deal for Gett\u2019s UK business would increase Lyft\u2019s driver base in Europe\u2019s largest ride-hailing market, as Gett\u2019s platform connects riders to three-quarters of registered black-cab drivers across Greater London, Lyft said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004781,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004759\/revisions\/1004781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}