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Hailo Eases Student Move-In Day Pain with Care Packages

The world’s highest-rated taxi app to celebrate students’ return to Boston with free goodie bags

WHAT: Hailo, the world’s highest rated taxi app, will be welcoming students back to Boston with free move-in day care packages at colleges and universities across the city.  Hailo, which hails a licensed taxi driver with two taps on a smartphone, will distribute packages containing much-needed Hint Water, UnReal candy, and promo codes, among other surprises. The packages will be distributed to campuses through the same licensed taxi drivers who rely on Hailo to help them connect with passengers.

WHO: Hailo is the world’s highest rated taxi app, founded in London by three taxi drivers. Currently operating in major cities around the world, Hailo is the easiest, safest way to hail a licensed taxi cab with just two taps on a smartphone.  

WHEN: Saturday, August 31. 11 to 3pm.  

WHERE: Hailo will be distributing the packages across Boston neighborhoods adjacent to college campuses across Boston, including Kenmore, Symphony, Mission Hill, and Allston. For up-to-the-minute updates on our location, please follow @HailoBoston.       

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ABOUT HAILO Hailo is the evolution of the hail - a free smartphone app which puts people just two taps away from a licensed taxi, and lets cabbies get more passengers when they want them. A Hailo hail is accepted around the world every four seconds from Hailo’s global network of tens of thousands of drivers and hundreds of thousands of passengers. Launched in November 2011, Hailo is available in London, New York, Dublin, Cork, Galway, Toronto, Chicago, Boston, Madrid, Barcelona and Washington DC - and coming next to Japan. Hailo has carried five million passengers and grown to annualized sales of more than $100M. Founded by three taxi drivers and three internet entrepreneurs, Hailo has raised over $50M from the best investors anywhere, including Union Square Ventures, Accel Partners, Wellington Partners, Atomico Ventures and Sir Richard Branson.

Hailo is available as a free download from the iTunes App Store and Google Play. Simply search "Hailo."

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PRESS CONTACT: For more information, please contact Anne Baker at Anne@inkhouse.com or 781-966-4122 

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