However, new funding aside, the Paris-based company is perhaps most noteworthy due to the traction its getting, specifically in its home market of France where it claims its tech is installed on 95percentt of smartphones.
Didi, which claims 400 million users across a variety of services in China, said it will help Taxify to grow its presence in its regions — where it claims to be second to Uber — and to develop smarter products.
To date, the company has found significant traction in its hometown of London, where it claims to be installed on one in five smartphones.
Radionomy says it's going to put more focus on developing its presence in France, where it claims to have become the number one music streaming website, before Last.fm, Jiwa and other more established players.
The case in The Hague marks the first time China has ever been challenged legally about its intrusions into the South China Sea, where it claims almost all the islands, reefs and sea lanes as its own.
That tallies with the notion that its latest round of funding is about accelerating international expansion (not least via acquisition, it seems) and firming up its leading position in Europe, where it claims 1.5 million customers.
The base — the location of which Alibaba isn't revealing for security reasons — is the first for its Aliyun division outside of China, where it claims 1.4 million cloud services customers.
