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Bloomberg Strange Things at Uber Keep Getting Stranger Bloomberg The $4.5 billion of cash is a fraction of what Uber has raised, and it covers about two years of negative Ebitda, meaning that if you lend money to Uber and it keeps going at this rate, it will run out of cash before your loan comes due. Equity ... https://www.google.com/news
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Hurriyet Daily News Shots fired at Uber vehicle in Istanbul amid protests from taxi drivers Hurriyet Daily News Shots were fired at Uber vehicle in Istanbul's Küçükçekmece district late on March 10, as tensions between taxi drivers and Uber drivers continue to rise in the city. No injuries were reported in the incident, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The ... https://www.google.com/news -
New Statesman “I got out and ran”: with one attack a week in London, is using Uber safe for women? New Statesman In an effort to extort more money from our journey, my driver took me all across London – and off the predetermined route Uber had mapped out. On the app, you can watch your journey as it progresses, a little black car moving steadily along a planned ... https://www.google.com/news
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Uber and Lyft should offer their drivers better pay The Japan News By Leonid Bershidsky / BloombergTravis Kalanick, the Uber founder, has set up a fund to invest in companies involved in “large-scale job creation.” That would seem to be right up his alley: Uber has created lots of jobs. The question, though, is ... and more » https://www.google.com/news
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Uber starts offering rides to the doctor The Macomb Daily FILE - In this March 15, 2017, file photo, an Uber car drives through LaGuardia Airport in New York. Uber offering to take patients in every U.S. market where it operates to their next medical appointment. The ride-hailing service said Thursday, March ... and more » https://www.google.com/news
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The Australian Financial Review Uber in pitch to raise $1.59 billion directly from lenders The Australian Financial Review Inside New York's St Regis Hotel on Friday, debt investors were given what's becoming a familiar pitch: a high-flying tech company with a charismatic leader but no real cash flow was asking them to lend it money. This time it was Uber Technologies, the ... https://www.google.com/news
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Ahval Istanbul taxi drivers have launched a war against UBER Ahval In Istanbul, on March 10, an UBER driver was attacked by armed man, while he was on his way to pick up a customer. The car was hit with four bullets. There is no casualty reported due to the fact that UBER taxi did not have any customers. One of the ... https://www.google.com/news
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Business Standard Uber calls lenders for $1.25 billion in Wall Street shortcut Business Standard Uber calls lenders for $1.25 billion in Wall Street shortcut. Uber was looking to borrow directly from investors, bypassing the traditional route of using banks to fan the loan among other lenders. Lisa Lee & Sally Bakewell | Bloomberg Last Updated at ... Uber calls lenders for $1.25b in Wall Street shortcutgulfnews.com Uber calls lenders for US$1.25b in Wall Street shortcutMalay Mail all 1 news articles » https://www.google.com/news
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Stuff.co.nz Uber drivers: Many don't get minimum wage Stuff.co.nz There is no minimum for self-employed contractors. Wilson, who has since stopped driving, said it was not easy work. "It's not back-breaking but it is dangerous," he said. "One of the main ways people die [is in car crashes] and Uber drivers are doing ... and more » https://www.google.com/news
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Fast Company This Is Why It's So Hard To Calculate How Much Uber Drivers Earn Fast Company Uber's mild-mannered CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, even chimed in to smear the study with a charming tweet, as did several academics. All the while, drivers piled into comment sections and Twitter threads to say the study was consistent with their own ... Uber Drivers Speak Out on That MIT Hourly Pay StudyVillage Voice How to Avoid Buying a Used Uber or Lyft CarConsumerReports.org all 19 news articles » https://www.google.com/news
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Forbes Futuristic Big Rigs Hit The Road As Waymo, Tesla, Uber Test Next-Gen Semi Tech Forbes The announcement also caps a week of heavy metal tech news including updates on Uber's driverless truck program and the start of test runs for futuristic electric Tesla Semis. After a year of stealthy testing in California and Arizona, Waymo is ... Waymo ups ante on rival Uber in self-driving truck gameUSA TODAY all 77 news articles » https://www.google.com/news
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TechCrunch Judge says Uber breached contract with drivers involving 'Safe Rides' fee TechCrunch A U.S. District Court judge has just handed some Uber drivers a win by concluding the ride-hailing company breached a contract pertaining to “Safe Rides” fees. In U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers' opinion on damages, she wrote “there is ... https://www.google.com/news
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TechCrunch Bird is raising $100 million to become the Uber of electric scooters TechCrunch That's what one investor said of the hot new Santa Monica, Calif.-based startup, Bird — an electric scooter company that's now in the process of raising as much as $100 million on a $300 million valuation, according to several people with knowledge of ... and more » https://www.google.com/news
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LISTEN: Why Pager Isn't Really The “Uber For Healthcare” Anymore Fast Company Pager CEO Walter Jin explains on the latest episode of The Bottom Line podcast how the Uber model represents just a part of what the company does. LISTEN: Why Pager Isn't Really The “Uber For Healthcare” Anymore. [Photo: Rawpixel]. By Rick Wartzman 3 ... https://www.google.com/news
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WIRED This Week in the Future of Cars: The Robots Shoulder the Load WIRED If the phrase “autonomous vehicle” makes you think of some four-wheeled pod tootling around the city, you need to think bigger. Like, a few tons bigger. For all the talk of robo-taxis, the smart money says that when this tech comes for our roads, it'll ... and more » https://www.google.com/news
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Financial Times How Didi Chuxing plans to beat Uber in ride-hailing race Financial Times Su Donghu, a Beijing taxi driver, remembers when the Chinese car-hailing company now called Didi Chuxing launched in 2012. The company, then called Didi Dache, was known for its aggressive efforts to recruit drivers. Staff would approach them in taxi ... and more » https://www.google.com/news
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Village Voice Uber Drivers Speak Out on That MIT Hourly Pay Study Village Voice Last week, a public relations skirmish broke out between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Uber, after researchers at the school's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) released a dismaying study on the subject of ride ... New PPA Chief Says Uber and Lyft Need to Disclose More DataPhiladelphia magazine all 8 news articles » https://www.google.com/news
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Bloomberg Uber Places Bet on India in Deal With Cricket Celebrity Kohli Bloomberg Uber Technologies Inc has named India's cricket captain -- one of the world's most expensive sports celebrities -- as brand ambassador, signaling that while it may be ceding ground in Southeast Asia, it's still trying to grow in the subcontinent. Virat ... Uber ropes in Virat Kohli as brand ambassador in IndiaMoneycontrol.com Despite Losing Money, Uber Just Signed An Endorsement Deal With One Of The World's Most Valuable AthletesBuzzFeed News Virat Kohli Becomes Uber Brand AmbassadorNDTV all 70 news articles » https://www.google.com/news
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CNET Uber rival brings bike-sharing operators under one app CNET There are too many bike-sharing companies on the streets, but one Uber rival has a plan to reign them in. In Singapore, ride-hailing company Grab has launched an app that gives users access to shared bikes and e-scooters, it announced Friday morning ... and more » https://www.google.com/news
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Bloomberg Uber Drivers Should Make More Money, Full Stop Bloomberg Putting the net earnings by an Uber driver in the $10 per hour neighborhood is an important finding. In a 2016 paper, Arne Kalleberg and Michael Dunn attempted to sort gig economy jobs by the two criteria that are most important to workers: wages and ... and more » https://www.google.com/news
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This Is Why It's So Hard To Calculate How Much Uber Drivers Earn Fast CompanyAn MIT study measuring low driver wages was quickly debunked, but researchers need better data, and ride-hail companies rarely cooperate. View the full article
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The Register Uber-Lyft study author jams into reverse gear over abysmal pay claims The Register The author behind a high-profile study on how much Lyft and Uber pay their drivers has U-turned – and says the taxi apps cough up more cash than he previously claimed. Dr Stephen Zoepf, of the Stanford University Center for Automotive Research in the ... How MIT Dragged Uber Through Public Relations HellForbes California's first proposed per-ride city tax to raise Uber, Lyft pricesArs Technica Dying to Know Uber's Secrets, Data-Hungry Cities Get CreativeWIRED Business Insider -Liverpool Echo -Hurriyet Daily News -Stanford University all 44 news articles » https://www.google.com/news
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Bloomberg Uber Calls Lenders for $1.25 Billion in Wall Street Shortcut Bloomberg Another twist to Uber's plan is that it's pitching the debt directly to investors, bypassing the traditional route of using banks to fan the loan out to the lender group. That's a first in recent loan-market history and a departure from the way ... and more » https://www.google.com/news
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New York Post 'Uber for dogs' app loses another pooch New York Post The app dubbed “the Uber of dog-walking” has lost another New York pooch — at least the fourth in three years. Upper East Side rescue Chihuahua Norman escaped his harness and ran off while a Wag walker was taking him for a stroll late Friday ... https://www.google.com/news
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Uber brings on Amazon voice exec to lead product team - TechCrunch
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TechCrunch Uber brings on Amazon voice exec to lead product team TechCrunch Uber has hired Assaf Ronen, Amazon's now-former vice president of voice and natural user interface shopping, Recode first reported. As SVP and head of product at Uber, Ronen will help Uber “lean in on product this year,” Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi ... Uber has hired a top Amazon voice exec as head of product as Daniel Graf departsRecode Uber hires Amazon's VP of voice shoppingSeeking Alpha all 4 news articles » https://www.google.com/news