Yango (ride sharing)

Yango (an abbreviation of Yandex Go) is a ride-hailing and delivery service operating in Europe, Africa and the Middle East and available via a mobile app. Yango was developed by Yandex.Taxi and launched in October 2018. Yango is part of Yandex Group which is also a developer of self-driving technology. As of 2020, Yango operated in the Ivory Coast, Finland, Ghana and Israel, in addition to 13 countries where other Yandex.Taxi ride-hailing apps operate.
In 2018, Yandex.Taxi and Uber merged their ride-sharing businesses in Russia and several CIS countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan). Yango is outside of this agreement and remains a competitor to Uber and other ride-hailing services in the countries where it currently operates.
History.
Yango is the new brand of Yandex.Taxi, which was launched in 2011 and had more than 700,000 participating drivers in 18 countries by 2019.
Yango's beta app was launched on October 4, 2018, at Abidjan (Ivory Coast) in French. On November 9, 2018, it was launched in Finland. In addition to Helsinki, as of December 2020 Yango operates in Tampere and Turku. 
Yango was officially launched in Israel on December 10, 2018. The app was installed by 100,000 users there in the first two weeks. The firm introduced a controversial new business model in the local taxi sector that offered passengers the exact price of rides known in advance. This fixed-price feature has drawn scrutiny from the Israeli Ministry of Transportation because it may violate Israeli law, which mandates that cab drivers can only charge the price indicated by the meter. 
In March 2020, Yango announced that it would offer the option of working directly with the company to independent licensed taxi drivers, after previously working with drivers only through taxi companies. In November 2020, Yandex announced the launch of an online grocery delivery service in Israel under a new brand called Deli by Yango.
In June 2019, Yango launched its services in Bucharest, Romania. In January 2020, it obtained a two-year technical permit to operate in Romania in order to comply with new government regulations on ride-hailing in the country, after failing to meet an earlier deadline. In October 2020, Yandex announced that it was halting its taxi operations in Romania due to unfavorable local regulations.
Yango launched in Accra, Ghana in June 2019 with plans to expand to other parts of the country. 
Special features.
Yango does not have its own cars or drivers, partnering instead with local transport companies and drivers. In countries where the company operates, its partners have opened dedicated driver’s centers.
In 2020, Yango's parent company was reportedly developing AI-infused proprietary hardware and software for its vehicles that monitors drivers’ attention levels, as well as a facial recognition system to determine the identity of the person behind the wheel.
Permissions controversy.
Yango asks for permission to access certain phone features in order to tailor the user experience. In November 2018, Finland’s largest national newspaper "Helsingin Sanomat" recommended not to download the app due to security risks from data collection. Following an investigation, the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority found that Yango's terms of service were essentially the same as Uber's. Soon after, "Helsingin Sanomat" published a follow-up article comparing permission rights requested by various taxi applications; it placed Yango second after Uber.