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PoliticoUber, but for planes
Politico
Flytenow's business model is similar to Uber's in that it addresses “a two-sided market that hasn't traditionally been connected very well,” Flytenow co-founder Alan Guichard told POLITICO — in this case, hooking up travelers with the myriad pilots ...
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Arizona Daily StarRacy Nicki Minaj; hipster tourism; Uber driver drug dealer?
Arizona Daily Star
Madame Tussauds says employees at the Las Vegas museum will be closely monitoring a wax figure of Nicki Minaj after an image of a visitor posing suggestively with the statue appeared on social media. Minaj (the real one, not the wax figure) is shown at ...
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FOX31 DenverUber driver brightens passengers' day while singing and dancing during ride
FOX31 Denver
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles Uber driver reportedly filmed himself driving around the city while singing and dancing with his passengers. The driver, Jonathan Gaurano, played the The Weeknd's song “Can't Feel My Face.” All his passengers seem ...
Watch As Uber Driver Gets Riders To Join In Epic Lip SyncNewNowNext
Viral NewsWhoSay
Watching This Uber Driver Turn His Car Into a Nonstop Dance Party Will Fill ...Cosmopolitan.com (blog)
E! Online
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Las Vegas Review-JournalUber, Lyft will be allowed to operate at McCarran
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft will be allowed to operate at McCarran International Airport and when they do, they'll have designated pickup areas for customers to find their rides. Just don't expect that to happen right away — service at the ...https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber
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Business InsiderHere's proof that Uber is obliterating New York City's taxi industry
Business Insider
Uber is crushing the taxi industry that has dominated New York City for so many years. Gothamist just published a story about the increasing number of abandoned taxis piling up on the streets of Brooklyn, outside of taxi dispatchers. Hossam Yossri, who ...
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Los Angeles TimesUber driver is arrested after guns and drugs are found in Glendale home ...
Los Angeles Times
"During the investigation, detectives learned that Avakian was employed as an Uber driver for two years and it is suspected that he used the position as a cover to sell drugs," Lightfoot wrote in a news release. Avakian was released after posting bail ...https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber
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Uber learns lesson in Nairobi
ITworld
Nairobi is being hailed as one of the fastest growing Uber cities, overtaking South African cities such as Cape Town and Johannesburg. Credit cards are not used in the city as frequently as they are elsewhere and this has forced the company to adopt ...
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In These TimesUber's Attempt To Silence Its Drivers May Have Just Backfired
In These Times
Much has been made over how Uber, the car service that enables users to hail a car within minutes of pressing a few keys on their smartphones, is jumpstarting the “gig-economy.” Frequently lost amid the discussion over disrupting existing industries, ...https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber
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PCWorldUber learns lesson in Nairobi
PCWorld
Uber has been operational in Nairobi since January this year, and the company's experience in the city has been a sort of test case for what it can learn as it expands internationally. Nairobi is being hailed as one of the fastest growing Uber cities ...
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FortuneUber's global ride bookings could more than double in 2016
Fortune
The data come from a slide show prepared by Chinese bankers, “with input from Uber,” according to the report. The company is planning to aggressively build out its operations in China, and to continue to enter new U.S. markets, such as Albuquerque, N.M.
Uber Plans To Go Public In 18-24 Months, According To Leaked PresentationTechCrunch
Leaked Doc: Uber Nears $2 Billion in Revenue, Expects IPO in 18-24 MonthsRe/code
Uber's global bookings are expected to skyrocket to $26 billion in 2016Business Insider
CNBC -Bloomberg
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Los Angeles TimesUber's driver screening practices fuel political debate on rider safety
Los Angeles Times
The ride-hailing revolution holds the potential to radically change the way people get around. But the political battle over Uber and Lyft in California has focused on something more obscure: fingerprints. Uber is facing some of the fiercest challenges ...
Sex offenders, convicted murderer find jobs at UberCNNMoney
Uber background checks on drivers missed ex-convicts, prosecutors sayDigital Trends
Why Uber Doesn't Want to Fingerprint DriversInc.com
New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV -New York Times -TIME
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Citic Fund Unit Said to Plan $100 Million Uber Investment
Bloomberg
A fund management unit of China's Citic Group Corp. plans to invest $100 million in Uber Technologies Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter. Citic-CP Asset Management, a joint venture between Citic Trust and Citic-Prudential Fund ...
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TechCrunchUber Plans To Go Public In 18-24 Months, According To Leaked Presentation
TechCrunch
The news agency gained access to a presentation that Uber is showing to potential investors in China as part of a new funding round for its international business. (UberChina, the entity Uber created in the country, is separately reportedly seeking to ...
Leaked Doc: Uber Nears $2 Billion in Revenue, Expects IPO in 18-24 MonthsRe/code
Uber says its global ride bookings will more than double in 2016Fortune
Uber's global bookings are expected to skyrocket to $26 billion in 2016Business Insider
CNBC -Los Angeles Times
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PulseUber Courts Riders by Playid Cupid on Chinese Valentine's
Bloomberg
Uber Technologies Inc., competing in China with Didi Kuaidi for the ride-hailing market, is building its community of users by playing matchmaker on the nation's equivalent of Valentine's Day. Uber ran a promotion on Thursday in southern Guangzhou city ...
Uber's Biggest Competition Is Not a Ride-Sharing Company (In 1 Chart)Pulse
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Wall Street JournalUber to Offer India Passengers Free Wi-Fi
Wall Street Journal
Passengers who book a car through Uber will receive a password to access the Internet from the driver. The company says it is working on ways to prevent drivers offering the service to customers who book through rival apps and will track whether data ...
Uber to Provide Free In-Car Wi-Fi in IndiaNew York Times
Uber's Biggest India Challenge Is ItselfRe/code
Uber-Bharti Airtel Partnership To Offer Free 4G Wi-Fi To Passengers In IndiaInternational Business Times
Tnooz -Economic Times -NDTV
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TIMEUber Drivers Would Earn $5500 Per Year in Benefits if Paid as Employees
TIME
Uber drivers in six major U.S. cities would receive paid holidays and health care benefits worth an average of $5,500 a year, plus thousands more in mileage reimbursement, if the company provided them with the same benefits as its full-time employees, ...https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber
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New York TimesUber to Provide Free In-Car Wi-Fi in India
New York Times
HONG KONG — In India, a country notorious for city-snarling traffic jams, Uber is hoping free in-car Wi-Fi will lure customers who don't want long transit times to take them offline. On Friday, Uber, the ride-sharing company, said it had signed a ...
Uber to Offer India Passengers Free Wi-FiWall Street Journal
Uber's Biggest India Challenge Is ItselfRe/code
Uber-Bharti Airtel Partnership To Offer Free 4G Wi-Fi To Passengers In IndiaInternational Business Times
Tnooz -Economic Times -TechCrunch
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Fredericksburg.comHigh-tech rides come to Fredericksburg via Uber, Lyft
Fredericksburg.com
According to Brandy Brubaker, public relations and media liaison at the Virginia DMV, there are nearly 400 vehicles in the region registered with companies like Uber or its main competitor, Lyft. Many of these vehicles are registered in Fredericksburg, ...
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Australia's Cabcharge pins hopes on payment app amid Uber competition
Reuters
SYDNEY Taxi services firm Cabcharge Australia Ltd has hired software developers to rush a payment app to the market as its fights against the soaring popularity of ride-sharing service Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL]. Cabcharge, which provides the ...
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CNNMoneySex offenders, convicted murderer find jobs at Uber
CNNMoney
One Uber driver was convicted of second-degree murder in 1982. He spent 26 years in prison, was released in 2008 and applied to Uber. A background report turned up no records relating to his murder conviction. He gave rides to over 1,100 Uber customers ...
Uber's driver screening practices fuel political debate on rider safetyLos Angeles Times
Uber background checks on drivers missed ex-convicts, prosecutors sayDigital Trends
Why Uber Doesn't Want to Fingerprint DriversInc.com
New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV -New York Times -TIME
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BloombergRacing to Stay Ahead of Uber
Bloomberg
Uber has 11 percent of the country's private car business and is raising $1 billion to claim more. In a June message to investors, Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick said expanding in China is Uber's top global priority and that he plans to put ...
Asian Ride Startups Give Uber a Run for Its MoneyWall Street Journal
The Chinese government is the latest member of the anti-Uber investor allianceQuartz
GrabTaxi Lands $350M From China's Top Uber Rival Didi Kuaidi And OthersTechCrunch
Fortune -Re/code -Mashable
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Woman Tries To Get Uber Driver Blocked For Driving While Muslim
Refinery29
Sonia Marcella Martinez's profile picture on Uber, where she's a driver, shows a grinning 32-year-old woman wearing big sunglasses and a headscarf. Martinez has been working as a part-time driver in Denver for the past five months, and has been loving ...https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=uber&oq=uber
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TBO.comVictor Crist has plan he says would make Uber and Lyft legal
TBO.com
Victor Crist, chairman of the transportation commission and a Hillsborough County commissioner, said he will propose creating a new regulatory category called ride-share for transportation networking companies. Crist said if Uber and Lyft accept three ...
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New York TimesUber Missed Criminal Records of Drivers, Prosecutors Assert
New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — For more than a year, regulators in various cities have questioned whether Uber, the ride-hailing service, vets its drivers for criminal backgrounds as carefully as traditional taxi companies. Now the district attorneys of San ...
Uber's cheapest service significantly lowers drunken driving deaths in ...Fox News
DA: major flaws in Uber background checks allow criminal driversSFGate
Uber Failed to Screen Out Criminals Including a Murderer, Regulators SayWall Street Journal (blog)
Fortune -Forbes -Business Insider
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Detest Uber's surge pricing? Some drivers don't like it either - CNET
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CNET
CNET
Peter Ashlock was driving for Uber that night, as he is on most Friday nights, and got a passenger heading to the airport. The typical fare for an airport ride back then was about $65. But this passenger ended up being charged $179 due to Uber's surge ...
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