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Forbes
Is Uber Freight On The Verge Of Going Out Of Business?
Forbes
While I was in the process of doing a market study on the worldwide transportation management system market, now complete, I talked to logistics technology executives. The struggles that Uber Freight has faced are not surprising to these seasoned pros ...
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Forbes
Uber Whistleblower Susan Fowler On What Every Company Should Do To Stop Harassment
Forbes
Uber whistleblower Susan Fowler calls for all companies to do away with forced arbitration agreements to prevent abuse from getting overlooked or covered up. Susan Fowler rocked the tech world with her 2,900-word essay last February about her ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Uber boss admits 'we lost sight of our drivers'
Telegraph.co.uk
Uber's chief executive has admitted that the ride-sharing company failed to support its drivers, favouring instead to invest in growing the business globally. "We focused too much on growth but not enough on drivers," he said during a press conference ...
Uber redesigned its driver app with input from actual driversThe Verge
Uber handed further legal blow by European Court of JusticeFinancial Times
Nope, you're still a transport biz, top EU court tells UberThe Register
TechCrunch -The Atlantic -CNET -TechCrunch
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Toronto Star
Uber court ruling exposes dangerous loophole, critics say
Toronto Star
Uber drivers who want to fight their employer in court will have to go to the Netherlands to do it, an Ontario judge has ruled — exposing what employment lawyer Lior Samfiru calls a dangerous loophole in the province's labour laws. The decision ...
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Uber loses EU court case against French criminal charges
Reuters
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - France is entitled to bring criminal proceedings against local managers of ride-hailing app Uber for running an illegal taxi service, the EU top court ruled on Tuesday, dealing the Silicon Valley start-up another legal setback ...
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Financial Times
Uber's rough ride in Europe gets rockier
Financial Times
Uber is back under the scrutiny of the EU's highest court. Luxembourg judges will deliver on Tuesday morning a key ruling on whether the ride-hailing app — which has come under fire in Europe in the past year — should lose some of its protections ...
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Marketing Week
Electoral Commission, Apple, Uber: Everything that matters this morning
Marketing Week
Uber buys US electric bike company. Uber has agreed to pay more than $100m in cash and stock to buy electric-bicycle provider Jump Bikes – a New York-based company that allows riders to rent 'pedal assist' bikes via an online platform. “We're committed ...
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Financial Times
Uber JUMPs: slurps San Fran cycle-share partner
The Register
Uber apparently isn't burning cash fast enough, so the ride-share company has bought dockless bike-share outfit JUMP Bikes, with CEO Ryan Rzepecki coming along for the ride. In February, everybody's favourite it's-not-a-taxi provider tied up with San ...
Uber joins bicycle-sharing peloton with Jump Bikes dealFinancial Times
Here's why owning a bike-share service makes sense for UberRecode
Uber to buy electric bicycle-sharing firm JumpBBC News
The Verge -TechCrunch -Quartz -TechCrunch
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MediaNama.com
Update: After nine days, drivers call off strike against Ola and Uber in Jaipur
MediaNama.com
Update on 10th April 2018: Rajasthan Vahan Chalak Sangathan, the driver union in Jaipur, has called off the strike as union's demands such as the installation of cameras, and reinstating blacklisted drivers and offroads cars have been agreed by the cab ...
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wivb.com
Lockport Uber driver warns of scam targeting drivers
wivb.com
LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WIVB) - An Uber driver from Lockport wants others like him to avoid a scam he says cost him a day's pay. While driving in downtown Buffalo over the weekend, Daniel Duzy received a call from a person he thought was from Uber Corporate ...
Scammers target Bend Uber drivers in phishing scamKTVZ
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GeekWire
Seattle moves forward with plan to bring Uber and Lyft regulations in line with taxis
GeekWire
Mike Livingstone is a member of Drive Forward, a group of drivers set up by Uber. Drive Forward opposes Seattle's newest resolution. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper). The Seattle City Council approved a resolution to explore new regulations for ride ...
Seattle could become first city to regulate ride-share Uber, Lyft base ...KOMO News
king5.com | Seattle explores new Uber and Lyft rulesKING5.com
City Council to vote on move towards base fare for Uber and Lyft ...KIRO Seattle
American Spectator
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BT.com
Mercedes ViaVan ride-sharing service launched as Uber rival in London
BT.com
A new rival to Uber has launched in London – ViaVan – a firm jointly owned by Mercedes-Benz and New York start-up Via which offers ride-sharing in minivans. The service is best described as a combination of Uber's UberPool option – which picks up ...
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Forbes
For Uber And Lyft, Medicare Could Be The Next Profitable Ride
Forbes
New rules allowing health insurers to include more supplemental benefits in their Medicare Advantage plans may open the door to millions of ride-sharing trips via Uber or Lyft to the doctor's office, clinic or pharmacy for millions of elderly Americans ...
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Engadget
Uber avoids ban in Egypt over taxi driver lawsuit
Engadget
Uber has faced more than a few service shutdowns over legal issues, but it just dodged a bullet in Egypt... at least, for a while. A court has negated a decision that would have suspended the licenses of both Uber and its local rival Careem for ...
Egyptian court suspends ban on Uber and Careem | Africanewsafricanews
Uber Manages to Dodge Ban in Egypt Over Taxi Driver Lawsuit, for NowGizmodo
Egyptian court allows Uber and Careem to continue operationsReuters
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Telegraph.co.uk
Arrival of Uber forces famously surly Paris taxi drivers to take etiquette lessons
Telegraph.co.uk
The “godfather” of Parisian taxis has offered hundreds of cabbies free politeness lessons, conceding that the controversial arrival of Uber and other minicab companies in the French capital has forced them to finally go up a gear in customer service ...
Russian ride-hailing app returns to take on Uber in LondonFinancial Times
Uber India Will Now Put an 'Authorisation Hold' on Your Card Before Your Trip BeginsNDTV
Philippines regulator orders pushback in Uber's shutdown amid ongoing reviewReuters
Evening Standard -Rappler
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Financial Times
Russian ride-hailing app returns to take on Uber in London
Financial Times
A Russian ride-hailing app that five years ago pulled out of London's lucrative private transport market, has launched again in the UK capital with plans to plough hundreds of thousands of pounds into attracting drivers away from Uber. Wheely, which ...
Arrival of Uber forces famously surly Paris taxi drivers to take etiquette lessonsTelegraph.co.uk
Philippines regulator orders pushback in Uber's shutdown amid ongoing reviewReuters
Uber driver inflates fare, uses customer's phone to tip himself $76WDTN.com
NDTV -Evening Standard -Rappler
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Engadget
Uber halts some service in Greece following stricter rules
Engadget
Uber is still very much at odds with some cities over their attitudes toward ridesharing. The company is suspending UberX service in Athens, Greece from April 10th onward in the wake of newly-approved laws that limit how ridesharing companies can ...
Uber to suspend service in Greece after new legislationReuters
Good luck leaving your Uber driver less than five starsQuartz
Ride-hailing app Uber halts its licensed service in GreeceKathimerini
Telegraph.co.uk -The Star Online -The Denver Post
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The Verge
Uber halts its service in Greece after legislative crackdown
The Verge
Uber said it would suspend its licensed service in Greece after new legislation was passed that would impose stricter rules on ride-hailing. Like in other European countries, Uber has long faced opposition from taxi owners in Greece for taking their ...
Uber to suspend service in Greece after new legislationReuters
Reputation inflation explains why Uber's five-star driver ratings ...Quartz
Ride-hailing app Uber halts its licensed service in GreeceKathimerini
The Straits Times -Telegraph.co.uk -South China Morning Post
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Forbes
Redpoint Poaches Uber's Annie Kadavy To Be Venture Firm's First Female Partner
Forbes
As Satish Dharmaraj started the hunt for Redpoint's next partner, he realized what entrepreneurs were looking for from a venture firm had changed. The next generation of startups, he believed, wanted to work with venture capitalists who had experience ...
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Next City
NYC Uber Rides Will Soon Get More Expensive
Next City
NYC Uber Rides Will Soon Get More Expensive. By Rachel Dovey | April 5, 2018. Facebook · Twitter · Email. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu). In a move widely regarded as the first step toward congestion pricing, the New York state legislature last weekend agreed to ...
Startups Want to Use the Blockchain to Take Our Data Out of Uber's HandsMotherboard
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Grab signs up 'thousands' of Uber drivers
The Straits Times
SINGAPORE - Ride-hailing app Grab has contacted drivers who rent cars from Lion City Rentals (LCR), urging them to switch across from Uber, whose South-east Asian business it acquired last week. LCR's 13,000-strong fleet had an exclusive deal with Uber ...
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TechCrunch
JUMP Bikes weighing Uber $100m+ acquisition, investment offers
TechCrunch
JUMP Bikes, the on-demand biking service that integrates with Uber, has been weighing both acquisition and investment offers. A decision has not yet been reached, but right now possible options include a sale to Uber at a price that exceeds $100 ...
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TechCrunch
Uber's India rival Ola could add public transport services following ...
TechCrunch
The rumors are true, India's Uber rival/potential-future-M&A-buddy Ola has acquired transportation startup Ridlr in an undisclosed deal. Mint reported the imminent transaction last week, describing it as a fire sale, and today Ola confirmed the deal ...
What makes an Ola-Uber consolidation deal complicatedETtech.com
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CNBC
It won out against Uber. Now Grab is setting its sights on another target
CNBC
"It was something I dreamt about for sure," said Grab co-founder and CEO Anthony Tan as he reminisced about his early desires to defeat San Francisco ride-hailing giant Uber in his own backyard. Speaking to CNBC just days after the announced deal to ...
Grab boss: 'Zero issues' with Uber deal in South East AsiaBBC News
We Spoke To Grab Drivers & Here's Why They're Worried About Uber Leaving M'siaVulcan Post (press release)
Philippine anti-trust agency starts review of Grab-Uber dealReuters
Channel NewsAsia -Wall Street Journal
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Airbnb And Uber Will Never Go Mainstream Without Insurance - Fast Company
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Fast Company
A new report from Lloyd's suggests that insurance can spur the growth of sharing-economy platforms. Airbnb And Uber Will Never Go Mainstream Without Insurance. [Photo: Flickr user Miriam Rossignoli]. By Ainsley Harris 3 minute Read. When platforms like ...
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