Ola Cabs, India’s major cab aggregator, said it was parting ways with Google Maps as the company has fully integrated its ride-hailing platform with the natively developed Ola Maps.
The announcement was made by the company’s co-founder and chairman Bhavish Aggarwal late on Friday. The switch, he claimed, would allow Ola Cabs to save up to ₹100 crore annually.
“After Azure exit last month, we’ve now fully exited Google Maps. We used to spend ₹100 crore a year but we’ve made that 0 this month by moving completely to our in house Ola Maps,” Aggarwal posted on X (formerly Twitter).
Ola had confirmed its decision to snap ties with Microsoft’s Azure in May, as it decided to shift its workload on the in-house artificial intelligence platform Krutrim.
“Any other developer who wants to move out of Azure, we will offer a full year of free cloud usage. As long as you don’t go back to Azure after that,” Aggarwal had tweeted on May 11.
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