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Capitol Watch: Budget, Uber and college tuition Glens Falls Post-Star ALBANY — Talks over the state budget are heating up, with decisions on college tuition assistance and Uber's upstate expansion looming. The Republican-led Senate and the Democrat-controlled Assembly are in broad agreement with many of Democratic ... and more » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

U.S. News & World Report Capitol Watch: Budget, Uber and College Tuition U.S. News & World Report ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Talks over the state budget are heating up, with decisions on college tuition assistance and Uber's upstate expansion looming. The Republican-led Senate and the Democrat-controlled Assembly are in broad agreement with many of ... and more » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

Cairns Uber driver to face court after allegedly busted drink driving twice The Cairns Post Far North police Insp Rhys Newton said the alleged incident was concerning given people use services such as taxis and Uber to avoid drink driving. “Unbeknown to them (the passengers) have allegedly exposed themselves to a driver under the influence ... https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

MyStatesman.com Uber and Lyft ride hail into the Legislature — again MyStatesman.com As I listened (twice!) to debate over a proposed ride-hailing law — and fingerprints, drunken driving, sexual assault, apps, innovation, local control, Uber and Lyft — the whole thing had a dispiriting familiarity. The cast of characters was ... Uber's final frontier: Upstate New YorkInquirer.net all 8 news articles » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

Uber driver killed in Chile during attempted robbery -police Daily Mail Uber's unit in Chile did not immediately respond to requests for comment. But the company has faced criticism for not doing enough to prevent its drivers from being targeted by criminals, who ambush drivers after requesting rides using the cash option ... and more » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

Mashable SXSW 2017: A world without Uber and Lyft Mashable In Austin, Texas, there's no Uber or Lyft. To make the 25-minute drive from the airport to downtown Austin, you have to either rent a car, hail a taxi, or download a new app. And yes, you read that right: Not even Lyft. In Austin, for almost the last ... How Uber and Lyft bent the rules and wonMinneapolis Star Tribune Ride sharing showdown: Should you grab an Uber, or call for a Lyft?Digital Trends Uber and Lyft's potential return to Austin may threaten new ridehailing startupsCurbed West Hawaii Today -Juneau Empire (subscription) all 12 news articles » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

Fortune Judge Upholds Uber Driver's Union Rule in Seattle Fortune A judge in Washington State has rejected Uber's attempt to overturn a Seattle ordinance that gives it drivers the right to unionize, potentially opening the door for higher rates and labor costs. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Teamsters ... Seattle Law Letting Drivers Unionize Survives Uber Legal AttackBloomberg Judge sides with city of Seattle in legal dispute with Uber over ...GeekWire Court Upholds Seattle Ordinance Rules Allowing Uber Union VoteWall Street Journal (subscription) TheStranger.com -National Right to Work Foundation (blog) all 11 news articles » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

Minneapolis Star Tribune How Uber and Lyft bent the rules and won Minneapolis Star Tribune There was just one problem: Uber didn't have a permit to operate in the Twin Cities. Neither did its competitor, Lyft, which arrived shortly after Uber. Minneapolis regulators initially threatened to issue tickets and impound any vehicles caught ... SXSW 2017: A world without Uber and LyftMashable Ride sharing showdown: Should you grab an Uber, or call for a Lyft?Digital Trends Uber and Lyft's potential return to Austin may threaten new ridehailing startupsCurbed West Hawaii Today -Juneau Empire (subscription) all 12 news articles » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

Inquirer.net Uber's final frontier: Upstate New York Inquirer.net In this photo, taken March 15, 2017, a sign points the way towards a pick-up point for the Uber car service at LaGuardia Airport in New York. New York state lawmakers are considering legislation that would allow Uber and Lyft to expand into upstate ... and more » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

New York Times As Uber Woos More More Drivers, Taxis Hit Back New York Times Just a mile away, the Uber center deploys a dozen concierges in black T-shirts to sign in drivers with iPads in a gleaming, airy sanctuary tastefully outfitted with flat-screen monitors, sleek couches and a wall-size print of abstract renderings of New ... Uber needs to get real about that $69bn price tagMoneyweb.co.za Barrie councillors look at pilot projectThe Barrie Examiner Ride-hailing app Uber to launch on Big Island this weekSacramento Bee Savannah Morning News -CTV News -The Cairns Post all 36 news articles » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

Fortune Uber Sharply Lags Competition in Self-Driving Progress Fortune Recode has obtained detailed internal documents showing that Uber has a long way to go to create working self-driving cars. Uber's vehicles, according to the documents, still need extremely frequent human intervention, lagging far behind competing ... Uber's autonomous cars drove 20,354 miles and had to be taken ...Recode Revealed: Uber's automated cars can only drive for A MILE without human assistanceDaily Mail Leaked internal Uber documents show rocky self-driving car ...TechCrunch New York Magazine -Tribune-Review -Inc.com -BuzzFeed News all 50 news articles » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

Digital Trends Ride sharing showdown: Should you grab an Uber, or call for a Lyft? Digital Trends The ridesharing revolution began harmlessly enough. Uber used the burgeoning app market to launch an on-demand vehicle service that soon grew into a multi-billion-dollar game-changer. Lyft wasn't far behind, launching its own flavor of ridesharing in ... How Uber and Lyft bent the rules and wonMinneapolis Star Tribune Uber and Lyft's potential return to Austin may threaten new ridehailing startupsCurbed My Turn: Uber is right for JuneauJuneau Empire (subscription) all 11 news articles » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

Centre Daily Times Uber's final frontier: Upstate New York Centre Daily Times In this March 15, 2017 photo, a sign marks a pick-up point for the Uber car service at LaGuardia Airport in New York. New York state lawmakers are considering legislation that would allow Uber and Lyft to expand into upstate cities like Buffalo ... and more » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

Chron.com Uber's final frontier: Upstate New York Chron.com Currently, Uber and Lyft are banned outside of the New York City area. Every state except Alaska and New York now has statewide ride-hailing regulations — though the service remains unavailable in many rural areas. Austin, Texas, is the nation's ... and more » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

Get Surrey Uber driver fined after 'abusing the system' by illegally plying for hire in Guildford Get Surrey A driver from a private taxi hire company has been fined for "abusing the system" after a licensing officer sting in Guildford town centre. The Uber driver agreed to take a Guildford Borough Council officer on a journey which was not pre-booked ... https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

GeekWire Seattle Law Letting Drivers Unionize Survives Uber Legal Attack Bloomberg Seattle's first-in-the-nation law allowing Uber Technologies Inc. drivers to unionize survived a legal challenge by the ride-hailing company. Washington state Judge Beth Andrus rejected Uber's arguments that the local collective bargaining process for ... Judge sides with city of Seattle in legal dispute with Uber over historic driver unionization lawGeekWire Court Upholds Seattle Ordinance Allowing Uber Union VoteWall Street Journal (subscription) Uber Loses Legal Challenge, but Seattle Unionization Law Still at RiskTheStranger.com all 9 news articles » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

Crow River Media TECHNOBABBLE: Did Uber steal self-driving car technology ... Crow River Media One of the nicer things that the proliferation of smart phones and apps has done is enable ordinary people to take on temporary jobs whenever they want. Uber: Did Uber steal the driverless future from Google? - The ...Economic Times Uber tries to head off courtroom showdown with rival WaymoFinancial Times Engineers at Uber's self-driving unit passed around 'Safety Third' stickers as a jokeCNBC Business Insider -Vanity Fair -WIRED -Bloomberg all 96 news articles » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

New York Times In Silicon Valley, a Voice of Caution Scolds a High-Flying Uber New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Travis Kalanick, the famously combative chief executive of Uber, took the stage at a Vanity Fair conference in San Francisco last October and quickly faced a prickly question. Why all the blunders at the company, Vanity Fair's editor, ... https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

Economic Times Did Uber steal the driverless future from Google? Economic Times Travis Kalanick, the chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc., says he needs leadership help. He recently dispatched former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate sexual harassment claims against the company. His security team is ... TECHNOBABBLE: Did Uber steal self-driving car technology?Crow River Media Uber tries to head off courtroom showdown with rival WaymoFinancial Times A Simple Theory for Uber's Waymo Mess: Plain Old SloppinessWIRED CNBC -Entrepreneur -Vanity Fair -Bloomberg all 83 news articles » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

GeekWire Court Upholds Seattle Ordinance Allowing Uber Union Vote Wall Street Journal (subscription) A Washington state judge upheld a Seattle ordinance allowing app-based ride-hailing drivers to vote to unionize, dealing a blow to Uber Technologies Inc.'s hopes of stalling the legislation. Judge Beth Andrus of King County Superior Court issued the ... Judge sides with city of Seattle in legal dispute with Uber over historic driver unionization lawGeekWire Uber Loses Legal Challenge, but Seattle Unionization Law Still at RiskTheStranger.com all 8 news articles » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

WIRED A Simple Theory for Uber's Waymo Mess: Plain Old Sloppiness WIRED Just four months later, Uber acquired Otto for a reported $680 million—and that, Waymo alleges, is how the ride-hailing giant started using Google's vital circuit board and sensor setup in its own self-driving cars. Some folks, reading between the ... Uber tries to head off courtroom showdown with rival WaymoFinancial Times Two Arguably Avoidable Things Led to the Huge Lawsuit Between Alphabet and UberEntrepreneur Did Uber steal the driverless future from Google?Economic Times Vanity Fair -CNBC -TechCrunch -Bloomberg all 77 news articles » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

Moneyweb.co.za Uber needs to get real about that $69bn price tag Moneyweb.co.za But as Uber has said in courtrooms around the world, the ride-hailing app doesn't employ drivers. They're all self-employed, responsible for paying their own car, gas and insurance expenses and working whenever they want. Uber doesn't pay labour taxes ... Barrie councillors look at pilot projectThe Barrie Examiner Ride-hailing app Uber to launch on Big Island this weekSacramento Bee Uber releases its Savannah St. Patrick's Day guide with discount codeSavannah Morning News CTV News -The Star Online all 30 news articles » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

PRI How the new health care bill could affect your Uber ride PRI Innovation Hub reached out to a bunch of them, including Lyft, Uber and Taskrabbit — and except for Care.com — they wouldn't talk. The Republicans' replacement for the ACA could change things, drastically, for gig economy workers. People in their 50s ... https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

USA TODAY In Boston, you can call Uber for bagpipers on St. Patrick's Day USA TODAY For the second straight year, Uber is allowing its users in Boston to request bagpipers on demand. No, seriously. The promotion is free, but they're available for a limited time: 12 p.m. ET to 4 p.m. ET. All users do is go to the app, type in the code ... Uber will send you a free bagpipe concert on St. Patrick's DayBoston.com all 2 news articles » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber

Popular Science Building good mobile navigation is super hard. So why is Uber trying it? Popular Science Manik Gupta, the head of Uber's maps product team, describes the current navigation options in its iOS app as “very, very primitive,” while the Android app lacks navigation completely. The coming update, however, will seriously bolster in-app ... Ride-hailing app Uber to launch on Big Island this weekSacramento Bee Innisfil partners with Uber to create transit systemCTV News Uber releases its Savannah St. Patrick's Day guide with discount codeSavannah Morning News The Star Online all 25 news articles » https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber