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Of course they are, everything else is just PR at the moment. That said, they are (the first?) global taxi company. No one is surprised that global retailers, like e.g. H&M, have huge headquarters.

They're a company you can contact to dispatch a car to take you where you want to go that charges you by distance traveled. If that's not a taxi, I don't know what is.

A taxi is a vehicle for hire that you can lawfully hail on the street.

You've just described every taxi dispatcher on the planet, modulo a couple of rounding errors about medallions.