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Louisville eScooter riders have a reason to rejoice. Bird and Lime are going to be accompanied by more dockless eScooter companies soon. The city has given license to five operators to run their business - Spin, Jump, Cycle Hop, Lyft and Bolt. According to the city policy in Louisville, the vehicles will be allowed to operate within the Watterson Expressway with extensions in the south to Palatka Road to include Iroquois Park and west to Shawnee Park.

After building a grand status of scooter-sharing startups like Bird and Lime in the USA, the conveyance has taken a turn on one corner of Japan this time, i.e Urawa-misono Station in Saitama, a 50-minute underground train ride north of Tokyo.

Uber always waves the flag of innovation in its features and surprises the world with its ideology. Started as an American transportation network company, it expanded the reach to food industry via delivery service app. And now, to no surprise, it has taken over both of the sectors giving a hard time to its competitors. Recently Uber added new distinct features to its Uber and UberEats app.

Bird, a reputed dockless eScooter sharing startup, is planning to raise around $2.5B in a new funding round led by Sequoia Capital. With headquarters in Santa Monica (California), Bird entered the market back in 2017.