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BBC News
Uber driver found guilty over passenger's death in Sydney
BBC News
An Uber driver has been convicted over the death of an English passenger in Sydney, Australia. The passenger, 30-year-old Samuel Thomas, died when he fell from the Uber and was hit by a bus in June last year. Mr Thomas, from Hertfordshire, had been ...
Uber driver caused death of British man who was hit by bus after getting out of car in AustraliaThe Independent
Uber driver killed passenger by driving off while he was getting out of the carMetro
Uber driver Nazrul Islam found guilty over passenger death in Sydney CBDABC News
The Sydney Morning Herald -Daily Mail
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Forbes
AI In China: How Uber Rival Didi Chuxing Uses Machine Learning To Revolutionize Transportation
Forbes
The company currently has no rival in China; it battled Uber's operations in China and won. Uber entered China in 2013, and the two companies poured billions into fighting one another for the country's ride-share business until pressure from Uber's ...
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Newcastle Herald
Uber driver guilty over passenger's death
Newcastle Herald
facebookSHARE · twitterTWEET · email · whatsapp. Uber driver Nazrul Islam arriving at court on Monday. Uber driver Nazrul Islam should have known something was wrong when his rear passenger door opened while stopped at a red light in Sydney's CBD.
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Stuff.co.nz
Why are the poor paying for a council-owned Uber for the wealthy?
Stuff.co.nz
OPINION: Why are ratepayers in Auckland's poorest communities, and taxpayers, subsidising a council-owned Uber-style service for one of the city's wealthier areas? In short, to see whether it will cut down the number of commuters using cars to pop down ...
Council must abandon foolish effort to compete with UberScoop.co.nz
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Business Daily (press release) (blog)
Uber admits hitch on phone number concealing feature
Business Daily (press release) (blog)
Online taxi-hailing firm Uber has attributed the withdrawal of a privacy feature introduced to conceal rider and driver phone numbers to “technical issues.” Uber had in July rolled-out a software that connected calls between its drivers and riders ...
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Jersey Evening Post
Taxi drivers sought to sign up to new Uber-style app
Jersey Evening Post
Mr Andrews said: 'We realised the way Uber and others move into territories is that they sidestep the existing companies and they try and get scale before only then adding in the legalities. It does work for them in places where existing businesses ...
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Inverse
How Hitchcock Inspired 'Ride', a Thriller About a Nightmare Uber Ride
Inverse
“My dream was, let's make a Hitchcock movie in an Uber,” Ungar tells Inverse. The result is a film that blends classic cinematic storytelling with extremely contemporary technology. Ride feels like a story we've seen before, but it also “couldn't take ...
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Sky News
Deliveroo in talks about fundraising as Uber lies in wait
Sky News
The talks could last for several months, and insiders suggested that there was no urgency about raising the money, with Deliveroo sitting on a cash pile of hundreds of millions of dollars. However, Deliveroo's board, led by founder and chief executive ...
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Sky News
Deliveroo in talks about fundraising as Uber lies in wait
Sky News
Reports in September said that Uber, which owns the competing Uber Eats restaurant delivery service, was in early-stage negotiations about a takeover of Deliveroo valuing it at about $2bn. People close to Deliveroo have since suggested that there are ...
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Daily Record
Uber driver charged with conspiracy in Parsippany burglary
Daily Record
An Uber driver was charged with conspiracy on Friday in connection with a Nov. 9 attempted burglary in Parsippany. Frank Ditaranto, 47, of East Hanover, faces one third-degree count of conspiracy to commit burglary. Ditaranto was released on his own ...
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NEWS.com.au
Uber-style tradies could be the future, new survey suggests
NEWS.com.au
He said he'd be open to a more Uber-style tradesperson industry, even GPS tracking. “It would need a few restrictions,” Mr Brooks said. “But sometimes you are stuck in traffic and they (customers) could see you are on your way. It'd be like Uber, so I ...
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CNET
Gridwise app aims to help ride-share drivers earn more money
CNET
Drivers working for ride-share apps such as Uber and Lyft face an obvious problem: finding passengers. Any time they're not driving a paying passenger around they're losing money and wasting time. Developer Ryan Green thinks he has a solution, with an ...
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SFGate
Uber frontiers span Berlin to Buenos Aires as ride hailing peaks
SFGate
Sitting in his glass-walled office in Berlin with an open suit jacket, casually tieless, Christoph Weigler looks every bit the part of a Silicon Valley startup executive. But the Uber general manager for Germany isn't talking about dominance or ...
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Deliveroo in talks about fundraising as Uber lies in wait Sky News
The food delivery app is in talks with current and potential shareholders about a new funding round , Sky News can reveal. 16:20, UK, Saturday 24 November ...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Downtown Minneapolis to designate pickup zones for Uber, Lyft at bar close
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minneapolis wants to designate a zone for Uber and Lyft drivers to pick up downtown nightclubbers and bar patrons at the end of the night, according to the city. The ride-share zone, which hasn't been identified but could debut as early as next month ...
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Toronto Sun
Vaughan Uber driver accused of sexually assaulting passengers
Toronto Sun
Toronto Police say Senol Komec, 38, faces the charges after four different women, ranging in age from 19 to 36, were allegedly assaulted between December 2017 and October 2018 after being picked up alone around 2 a.m by an Uber driver in downtown ...
Canadian Uber driver charged after series of alleged sexual assaultsCTV News
Uber driver charged in string of sexual assaultsCityNews
Uber driver charged with 4 counts of sexual assaultCBC.ca
Globalnews.ca -Toronto Star
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CTV News
'The deck is stacked against ridesharing': Uber, MADD react to BC's plan
CTV News
However, it's still unclear when people can order a ride from Uber or Lyft because the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia has yet to develop an insurance product that would cover those drivers. It's estimated the process could take another year ...
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Mirror.co.uk
Uber Eats are doing Black Friday - and they've got a very tempting Krispy Kreme deal
Mirror.co.uk
Henry Harding, Head of Uber Eats Marketing for UK & Ireland said: “We know our customers are preparing for the busiest shopping time of the year, so it made sense to give them a little something extra to help them along their way this shopping season.
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Uber Eats are doing Black Friday - and they've got a very tempting Krispy Kreme deal Mirror Online
Bored of all the cheap tellys? Celebrate your Friday night with cheap doughnuts instead.
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DAWN.com
Uber, Careem drivers protest outside SC against low fares, excessive challans
DAWN.com
Scores of Uber and Careem drivers on Thursday held a protest outside the Supreme Court registry in Lahore against the "excessive challan tickets" reportedly issued to them and demanded of the ride-hailing companies to "increase their per-kilometre fares".
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Business Insider
The CEO of one of Uber and Lyft's hottest rivals reveals why the DNA of his company is fundamentally different from ...
Business Insider
On the consumer side, its drivers make more money than those at Uber and Lyft, through a more efficient algorithm described as a "virtual bus stop." For cities, the company is licensing its software to run on-demand buses and even operates the entire ...
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Business Insider
The CEO of one of Uber and Lyft's hottest rivals reveals why the DNA of his company is fundamentally different from ...
Business Insider
Graham Rapier: Obviously Uber and Lyft are two of your largest competitors. What differentiates Via from other companies in the ride-hailing space? Daniel Ramot: We see ourselves as being in a different category from Uber and Lyft, and I don't just say ...
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Financial Times
Profiling for IQ opens new uber-parenting possibilities
Financial Times
The apple does not always fall close to the tree. Gifted parents can produce a child of average talents. Unremarkable parents can create a genius. What if technology could make the latter more likely? A US start-up, Genomic Prediction, claims it can ...
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ABC News
Taxi drivers vow to fight Queensland Government in $1b compensation claim for legalising Uber
ABC News
Taxi drivers launching a $1 billion compensation claim against the Queensland Government say they have been left high and dry after the legalisation of ride sharing schemes like Uber in 2016. Taxi drivers from across Cairns gathered on Thursday to meet ...
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Deliveroo’s Banker Boss Takes a $4 Billion Uber Ride - Bloomberg
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Will Shu, Deliveroo's chief executive, is a former investment banker. So he probably knows how to cook up deal interest in a food delivery company whose riders ...
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