'super app' race

and even book flights.

In Indonesia, Gojek, valued at US$12.5 billion, is another example of a super-app focusing on food and payments, in addition to core transportation. In the United States, Uber and Facebook are also actively exploring ways to become major super-apps of the West.

In China, with its massive urban population and state-driven patterns for creating vertically shaped major corporations, digital versions of "national champions" emerge as trendsetters.

Although "national champions" might not be very effective in terms of international competition against more mobile private companies, it seems that super-apps are, for now, widely believed to be the future of the Internet. In effect, it is likely that more companies will eventually join the race, while competition will take place in different businesses and geographies.

This week Yandex announced the launch of Yandex Go, which could be Europe's first super-app to combine all key aspects of on