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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
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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 ...
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TechCrunchBird 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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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
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CNETUber 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 ...
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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 ...
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This Is Why It's So Hard To Calculate How Much Uber Drivers Earn Fast Company
An MIT study measuring low driver wages was quickly debunked, but researchers need better data, and ride-hail companies rarely cooperate.
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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
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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 ...
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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 ...
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TechCrunchUber 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
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Recode
Uber has hired a top Amazon voice exec as head of product as Daniel Graf departs
Recode
In another high-profile executive departure at Uber, product head Daniel Graf is leaving the company, according to sources. His replacement is Amazon's top voice shopping VP, Assaf Ronen. It is not clear where Graf, who had previously held top product ...
Uber brings on Amazon voice exec to lead product teamTechCrunch
Uber hires Amazon's VP of voice shoppingSeeking Alpha
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Financial Times
Uber nears deal with Grab to pull back in south-east Asia
Financial Times
Grab and Uber, two of the world's biggest car-booking apps, are close to signing a deal that would result in the US company pulling back in south-east Asia in return for a more than 20 per cent stake in its Asian rival, said two people familiar with ...
Uber Agrees in Principle to Exit Southeast Asia for Stake in RivalWall Street Journal
Uber selling Southeast Asia operations to Grab: reportPhys.Org
SoftBank-backed Grab close to buying Uber's South-east Asia businessLivemint
Gulf Times
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Inc.com
Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Debuts Investment Fund Dubbed '10100'
Inc.com
The fund will be directly overseen by Kalanick and will focus on the theme of "large scale job creation," he said in a blog post. He noted that investments will be in both profit and non-profit projects. It's a big announcement for Kalanick, whose ...
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City A.M.
Disgraced Uber head Travis Kalanick is starting a new venture in China and India
City A.M.
He expressed a previous interest in India and invested Uber into three Indian startups last January when he was still at the helm, totalling about $50,000 (£36,011). Kalanick's new fund will oversee his for-profit investments and non-profit work, which ...
Travis Kalanick starts investment fund after cashing in Uber stockFinancial Times
Ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick reveals new project: a 'job creation' fundThe Guardian
Ousted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announces comeback with new job-creation fundCNBC
The Verge -Washington Post -Engadget
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Bloomberg
Uber Better Not Be the Future of Work
Bloomberg
Uber's chief economist, Jonathan Hall, wrote a blog post criticizing the survey measures the MIT team used to generate their results. The survey was ambiguous about whether it asked people about the total hours they spend driving for on-demand taxi ...
Author walks back Uber-Lyft pay studyThe Register
California's first proposed per-ride city tax to raise Uber, Lyft prices ...Ars Technica
How MIT Dragged Uber Through Public Relations HellForbes
WIRED -Business Insider -New York Post -Medium
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Fortune
Uber, Lyft, Walmart, and Amazon Are Coming to Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2018
Fortune
Coming to Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2018 in Aspen, left to right: Dara Khosrowshahi of Uber, John Zimmer of Lyft, Hooi Ling Tan of Grab, Richard Liu of JD.com, Marc Lore of Walmart, Jennifer Fleiss of Walmart, Stacey Sher of Activision Blizzard, Bob ...
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Fortune
Man's Drunken $1600 Uber Ride Will Be Covered by a Company That's Just Happy He Wasn't Driving
Fortune
Bachman ordered an Uber during a night out in Morgantown, W.Va., and mistakenly thought his Uber would take him to West Virginia University, where he was staying. He blacked out in the car, and woke up to discover he was halfway through the 300-mile ...
Company Pays for Drunk Man Who Took $1600 Uber Ride While Passed OutNBC4i.com
New Jersey Company Will Pay Man's Drunken $1600 Uber FareCBS Philly
Drunken man gets help paying $1635 Uber fare after passing outLas Vegas Review-Journal
PEOPLE.com -Chicago Tribune
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Business InsiderUber is on the verge of selling its Southeast Asia business to one of its biggest rivals
Business Insider
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Southeast Asia's biggest ride-hailing firm, Grab, is in advanced negotiations to buy parts of Uber Technologies Inc's business in the region, said a source with knowledge of the talks, in what would be Uber's second retreat from ...
Southeast Asia's Grab in talks to buy into Uber's regional business-sourceReuters
SoftBank grabs a ticket to ride, and Uber is strandedThe Straits Times
Grab is said to close deal for Uber South-East Asia businessThe Star Online
The Business Times -euronews
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Uber Better Not Be the Future of Work Bloomberg
The ride-hailing *service* requires a commitment to a bad business decision.
This Is Why It's So Hard To Calculate How Much Uber Drivers Earn - Fast Company
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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
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