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Forbes
Cold War In Vegas: Taxis, Lyft, Uber Fight It Out
Forbes
Rideshare vehicles (Uber and Lyft) set an all-time record at the Las Vegas McCarran International Airport on January 8, 2018, making some 11,465 passenger pickups. Taxicabs added to the record, reporting 18,413 pickups at McCarran for a combined total ...
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Daily MailUber driver, 26, denies attacking police officers with a 4ft samurai sword after shouting 'Allahu Akbar'outside ...
Daily Mail
An Uber driver accused of attacking police officers with a samurai sword outside Buckingham Palace as part of an alleged terror plot will go on trial. Terror suspect Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, 26, is accused of driving a blue Toyota Prius at a marked ...
Uber driver 'caught with sword near Buckingham Palace' denies terror chargeMetro
Uber driver denies attacking police with Samurai Sword outside Buckingham PalacetalkRADIO (press release)
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MetroUber driver 'caught with sword near Buckingham Palace' denies terror charge
Metro
A self-employed Uber driver allegedly caught carrying a large sword near Buckingham Palace has denied a terrorism charge. Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, 26, appeared at the Old Bailey via video link from Belmarsh jail today. He pleaded not guilty to a charge ...
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Uber to utilize tech to enhance safety for drivers
InterAksyon
MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Uber has rolled out features over the past few months with the goal of improving their drivers' overall experience. Today, the ride-hailing company added one more of these features. Called Rider Identification, Uber introduced ...
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The Express Tribune
Uber and Careem hiring female drivers in Saudi Arabia
The Express Tribune
Uber and Careem have already started hiring and training women drivers after Saudi Arabia has decided to lift its ban on women driving in June 2018, reports CNN. Amani Alawwami, who joined the first workshop Careem ran last October, said,''I want to be ...
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Citifmonline
Uber drivers haven't been ordered to re-brand as taxis – Transport Ministry
Citifmonline
The Ministry is coordinating talks between the Commercial Taxi Drivers Association in Ghana, Uber, and other stakeholders. Taxi drivers have consistently voiced their displeasure with the operations of Uber drivers, who they say are taking their ...
GPRTU Not Scared Of UberModern Ghana (press release) (blog)
Uber cars must have taxi colours – GPRTU insistsGhanaWeb
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The Star Online
Current and former Uber security staffers cast doubt on spying claims
The Star Online
The previously unreported testimony from the onetime senior Uber official, as well as interviews conducted by Reuters with five current and former Uber employees, rebuts statements made in an explosive 37-page letter last year that triggered the ...
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Digiday
Cash-strapped young ad agency staffers moonlight as Uber drivers to make ends meet
Digiday
Last year, after receiving an advertising degree from the University of San Francisco, Austin Sacks moved to Los Angeles, a city bustling with ad agencies, to begin his career. But he soon realized he wasn't going to make ends meet on a starting salary ...
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Salon
Losing money rapidly, how long can Uber last?
Salon
Making matters worse, Uber already has fled from China and Russia, beaten by local competitors, and is barely hanging on in India. It is dangling by a hair in London, one of its busiest overseas markets, since the city's transportation authority ...
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Is Selling 29% Of His Stake In The Company…How Much Is That Worth?Celebrity Net Worth
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Why a ComfortDelGro-Uber alliance is undesirable in the long run
The Straits Times
SINGAPORE - The Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) is expected to decide by the end of the month whether to approve an alliance between two of Singapore's largest ride providers - ComfortDelGro and Uber. The CCS is doing a second round of ...
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Yahoo Finance
Exclusive: Current and former Uber security staffers cast doubt on spying claims
Yahoo Finance
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The former security chief of Uber Technologies Inc. swore in a closed legal proceeding that he knew of no attempts to steal trade secrets from anyone, including Alphabet Inc's self-driving unit Waymo, and would be "shocked" if ...
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GhanaWeb
Uber denies taxi-branding reports
GhanaWeb
Uber has denied reports that it has been directed by the Ministry of Transport in Ghana to – within a month – brand all cars it operates with into taxi. The reports first carried by www.3news.com quoted the General Secretary of the Commercial Taxi ...
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Daily Mail
Woman warns of Uber 'cleaning scam' after a 'creepy' driver charged her $150 for a mess she didn't make
Daily Mail
A woman has claimed she was scammed by Uber after being charged a $150 cleaning fee for a mess she says she didn't make. Uber customer Ebony was left shocked after she received the bill on top of her fare from Sydney's city centre to the north shore on ...
Uber customer warns of $160 'cleaning fee scam'New Zealand Herald
NSW woman charged $150 Uber 'cleaning fee' after mystery messYahoo7 News
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The Atlantic
Cities Have to Get Creative When Uber and Lyft Won't Release Trip Data
The Atlantic
To be sure, the battle for riders that Uber, Lyft, and other TNCs are winning isn't particularly hard-fought. Service cuts and performance declines on many transit systems—especially bus networks—offer passengers little reason to stay loyal. In some ...
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Winnipeg Free Press
No need for Uber to put it in park
Winnipeg Free Press
Is that the sound of screeching tires we just heard? Clearly, somebody slammed on the brakes. As it turns out, the heavy foot on the “stop” pedal belongs to the ride-hailing service Uber, which declared this week that its arrival here is on hold ...
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NEWS.com.au
Uber customer warns of $150 'cleaning fee scam' after driver posts photo of mystery mess
NEWS.com.au
Following Ebony's Facebook posts, Uber has now agreed to refund her the $150. Ebony posted on Facebook that following Uber's promise of a refund, “I have urged them to investigate the driver in question as his dishonest actions reflect very poorly on ...
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CNBC
Current and former Uber security staffers cast doubt on spying claims
CNBC
The former security chief of Uber Technologies swore in a closed legal proceeding that he knew of no attempts to steal trade secrets from anyone, including Alphabet's self-driving unit Waymo, and would be "shocked" if that had occurred. In a deposition ...
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New York Times
Inside Uber's $100000 Payment to a Hacker, and the Fallout
New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — “Hello Joe,” read the November 2016 email from someone identifying himself as “John Doughs.” “I have found a major vulnerability in Uber.” The email appeared to be no different from other messages that Joe Sullivan, Uber's chief ...
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Globalnews.ca
Calgary Uber driver removed from app after sending profanity-laced, sexual email to customer
Globalnews.ca
In the post, she wrote she booked an Uber on Saturday night and accidentally cancelled the ride at the last minute. “I felt really badly because I was really concerned he would no longer be getting paid and we both assumed my card wasn't going to be ...
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Bloomberg
Build a Wall Between Uber and Travis Kalanick
Bloomberg
Kalanick hired a star engineer from Alphabet, who allegedly brought with him trade secrets about self-driving cars, which Uber was trying to develop. (Although the engineer was eventually fired, Alphabet is suing Uber for $2.7 billion.) He bred a ...
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Reuters
After rejecting Uber, London renews Addison Lee's license
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - London has renewed premium car service Addison Lee's license to operate in the capital for the next five years, less than four months after Uber [UBER.UL] was stripped of its license. FILE PHOTO: A photo illustration shows the Uber ...
TfL extends Addison Lee's London licence for another five years as Uber's licence battle continuesCity A.M.
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CityLab
To Measure the 'Uber Effect,' Cities Get Creative
CityLab
But the effects of Uber, Lyft, and other transportation network companies (“TNCs,” in wonk-speak) are proving more complicated for city streets. In New York City, rapid growth in on-demand vehicles roving the roads—with and without passengers—is ...
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The Star Online
Uber rival Taxify expands into Lisbon while eyeing fresh funding
The Star Online
The Estonia-based taxi-hailing platform active in Central and Eastern Europe and Africa, has taken advantage of Uber's headline-grabbing missteps in 2017 to undertake expansion into a handful of Western European markets and Australia. On Jan 11, it is ...
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Quartz
New Zealand's inflation gauge ditches sat-nav and DVDs for Uber and craft beer
Quartz
Every three years, New Zealand reviews the items it includes in a basket of goods that it uses to measure inflation, which is also a gauge of the country's changing habits. The new inflation gauge reflects a country that, while still mad about rugby ...
Uber and Airbnb changing way Kiwis use technology - added to 2018 Consumer Price IndexTVNZ
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Why Uber Needs to Take the High Road to an IPO - Bloomberg
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Bloomberg
Back in 2015, explaining why Uber Technologies Inc. was years away from a public offering, co-founder Travis Kalanick likened the company to an eighth grader too young to go to the high school prom. Since then, the ride-hailing giant has been besieged ...
No car seat? 'No problem'ABC15 Arizona
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