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TechCrunch
Uber Buys Mapping Startup as Tensions With Google GrowWired
Uber is finally loosening its chokehold on the billions of dollars it's raised over the years, with the acquisition of deCarta, a mapping software business that was founded back in 1996. The acquisition, which Uber confirmed to Mashable Tuesday evening ...
Uber Is Buying Map Tech Startup deCarta In An Undisclosed DealTechCrunch
Uber Is Acquiring Mapping Company deCartaForbes
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Business Insider
An Uber driver in London mailed a passenger's lost items back to her with a ...Business Insider
One Uber customer in London who accidentally left her credit card, debit card, and driver's license in the backseat of her Uber was left "speechless with tears" after her driver, Jamshid, mailed her back her cards, along with a handwritten note to her.
*Good Uber news alert*: Customer 'speechless with tears' after driver returns ...Metro
Kind-hearted Uber driver helps reunite woman with lost cards and cashTelegraph.co.uk
Uber customer's tears of joy after driver posts her the bank cards and cash ...Evening Standard
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WXIA-TV
Ga. House passes Uber insurance billWXIA-TV
The bill that passed Tuesday would require Uber drivers to have commercial insurance. There is other legislation still making its way through the legislature that would require that Uber jump through many of the same regulatory hoops taxi companies ...
House votes to require greater insurance for Uber driversAtlanta Journal Constitution
Georgia House passes bill to regulate car hailing firms such as UberOnline Athens
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The Atlantic
Uber Ordered to Halt Ride-Sharing Pilot in JapanBloomberg
(Bloomberg) -- Japan's transport ministry ordered Uber Technologies Inc. to stop a ride-sharing pilot program in southern Fukuoka city, deepening the regulatory challenges the startup company faces globally. The San Francisco-based company was told to ...
Are Taxis Safer Than Uber?The Atlantic
Why drivers are winning the labor war between Uber and LyftWashington Post (blog)
Taxis jam Brussels in protest over possible Uber arrivalReuters
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Mashable
Uber acquires mapping startup deCartaMashable
"A lot of the functionality that makes the Uber app so reliable, affordable and seamless is based on mapping technologies," an Uber spokesperson told Mashable. "With the acquisition of deCarta, we will continue to fine-tune our products and services ...
Uber buys mapping startup deCarta: MashableReuters
Uber buys maps platform DeCarta — its first public acquisitionVentureBeat
Uber buys a mapping company. Is this its first acquisition?Gigaom
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CNBC
Is Uber crushing NYC's taxi industry?CNBC
New York taxi medallion prices are plummeting as ride sharing takes off in the city, but the head of the Taxi and Limousine Commission insisted that her industry is not in danger of collapse. After hitting an all-time high of $1.3 million in April 2013 ...
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SFGate
Hackers get info on 50000 Uber driversSFGate
Uber and Lyft, the yin and yang of ride-hailing services, seem to have bad news-good news disclosures in tandem. On Friday Uber disclosed that an unauthorized person had breached its driver database, gaining access to 50,000 drivers' names and driver ...
Uber Launches a Magazine to Make Nice With Its DriversWired
Uber Got Hacked Because It Left Its Security Key Out In PublicGizmodo
In major goof, Uber stored sensitive database key on public GitHub pageArs Technica
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GeekWire
Uber opening Seattle engineering office, led by Isilon vet Tim ProutyGeekWire
The office will be started up by Tim Prouty, a University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering alum who was most recently a director of engineering at EMC's Isilon Storage Division, reporting to Paul Mikesell, an Uber infrastructure engineering ...
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WXIA-TV
House votes to require greater insurance for Uber driversAtlanta Journal Constitution
As new technology-fueled cab hailing services like Uber aim to shake up how people get around transportation-challenged metro Atlanta, it's also spreading to one of the region's biggest centers for ground transportation: the world's busiest airport ...
Georgia House passes bill to regulate car hailing firms such as UberOnline Athens
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The Atlantic
Are Taxis Safer Than Uber?The Atlantic
In other words, Boston doesn't track assaults by where they happen—in a taxi, in an Uber, or in someone's home—so there's no data to compare reports against Uber drivers versus taxi drivers or limo drivers. That's true in other cities, too. We asked ...
Why drivers are winning the labor war between Uber and LyftWashington Post (blog)
Taxis jam Brussels in protest over possible Uber arrivalReuters
Uber, Lyft make moves to benefit driversCNBC
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Uber user charged $500 for 30-mile ride after attending Rodeo
KPRC Houston
SHE CLAIMS SHE TOOK AN UBER BACK TO HER HOME IN HUMBLE. AND THAT THE CAR SERVICE OVERCHARGED HER SEVERAL HUNDRED. NOBODY IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD STEP IN THE CAR KNOWING IT WOULD COST THEM $500 ...
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Cabbies: Make Uber Follow Stricter Taxi Rules
Hartford Courant
HARTFORD — Depending on who is speaking, regulating Uber and the ride-share industry in Connecticut would either protect under-informed customers, block unfair competition — or choke off job-creating entrepreneurs. Dozens of drivers and dispatchers ...
Are Taxis Safer Than Uber?The Atlantic
Uber, San Antonio should reach compromise in ongoing ride-share debate ...San Antonio Business Journal
Why drivers are winning the labor war between Uber and LyftWashington Post (blog)
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Police: Man assaulted Uber driver on OTR's Main St.
Cincinnati.com
A man is in police custody after an alleged fight with an Uber driver on popular section of Main Street in Over-the-Rhine earlier Sunday morning. Varun Varma, 27, was arrested and charged with assault and criminal damaging just before 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
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Spätes Eingeständnis: Fahrerdaten-Hack bei Uber
Basic Thinking (Blog)
Taxi-Killer Uber zählt nicht unbedingt zu den beliebtesten Unternehmen. Mal wieder trägt man ein Stück weit selbst zu diesem Ruf bei. Gerade hat Uber eingestanden, dass eine Datenbank mit Angaben über die Fahrer von Unbekannten kompromittiert wurde ...
Nach Hackerangriff: Uber räumt Verlust von Fahrerdaten einZDNet.de
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Uber Launches a Magazine to Make Nice With Its Drivers
Wired
Now that it's valued at $41 billion for its ambitious plan to transform transportation, Uber has decided that the future of its business is…print? Just kidding. Well, sort of. Today, Uber did launch a print magazine aimed specifically at its drivers ...
Uber just launched a quarterly print magazine, MomentumBusiness Insider
Uber, San Antonio should reach compromise in ongoing ride-share debate ...San Antonio Business Journal
Overfunded Uber Will Sink Excess Money Into Print MagazineSlate Magazine (blog)
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In major goof, Uber stored sensitive database key on public GitHub page
Ars Technica
Uber is trying to force GitHub to disclose the IP address of every person that accessed a webpage connected to a database intrusion that exposed sensitive personal data for 50,000 drivers. The court action revealed that a security key unlocking the ...
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Nach Angriff: Uber will GitHub zur Herausgabe von Nutzerdaten zwingen
Heise Newsticker
Im letzten Jahr wurden bei einem Angriff auf Uber die Daten von 50.000 Fahrern kopiert. Nach monatelangem Schweigen hat der Dienst dies nun öffentlich gemacht. Die Angreifer scheinen über Zugangsdaten eingedrungen zu sein, die auf GitHub gepostet ...
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Uber's biggest competitor in its second-largest market is getting even bigger
Quartz
Consolidation has finally begun in India's booming online taxi-hailing industry—and Uber's competition in its second-largest market (in terms of cities covered) just got bigger. Online taxi app Ola announced on March 2 that it has acquired TaxiForSure ...
India's Ola Buys Smaller Rival TaxiForSure For $200M To Put Pressure On UberTechCrunch
India's Largest Cab Hiring Startup Ola Acquires Nearest Rival TaxiForSure ...Forbes
Watch out Uber: Ola Cabs just bought rival TaxiforSure for $200 mnFirstpost
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Uber Cofounder Garrett Camp, First Hire Ryan Graves Join FORBES Billionaires ...
Forbes
Each time Uber's valuation bolts upward — $3.5 billion in mid-2013, $18.2 billion in June, and $41.2 billion in December – so do the net worths of its stakeholders. FORBES identified three Uber billionaires: cofounder and CEO Kalanick, cofounder ...
Forbes billionaires list: Founders of Uber car app make first appearanceThe Independent
Forbes billionaires list: Founders of Uber car app Travis Kalanick and Garrett ...Belfast Telegraph
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Fahrerdienst: Uber verschweigt monatelang einen Server-Einbruch
Golem.de
Der Fahrdienst Uber gibt einen Einbruch in seine Server bekannt, der im Mai 2014 stattfand und im September 2014 bemerkt worden ist. Mehr als 50.000 Datensätze registrierter Fahrer in den USA sind betroffen. Der Vorfall wirft ein schlechtes Licht auf ...
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Uber says personal information of 50000 drivers compromised
Edmonton Journal
A database containing personal information of 50,000 Uber drivers was breached in May, the taxi and rideshare company said Friday in a blog post. Uber said it has notified the drivers that the database, containing the names and driver's licence numbers was ...
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Uber drivers' data breached
Stuff.co.nz
Uber says a database containing the names and drivers' license numbers of 50,000 of its drivers was breached in May. The ride-sharing service says it has notified the drivers and hasn't received any reports of the information being misused. Uber says it will ...
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Uber Was Hacked Last May
PC Magazine
Uber revealed on Friday that an "unauthorized third party" broke into a company database last May and gained access to driver data. The ridesharing service said in a blog post that it discovered the security breach last September and "pon discovery we ...
Google News Uber says policy changes still not enough to stay in SA - mySanAntonio.com
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mySanAntonio.com
Uber and Lyft supporters gather in front of City Hall before a City Council meeting to decide on stricter regulations for the ride-share businesses. A reader criticizes the mayor and council for waffling on the tougher regulations that were supposed to ...
Uber gives city an ultimatumKSAT San Antonio
Uber still calling for full repeal of San Antonio's ride-sharing ordinanceSan Antonio Business Journal
Uber calls for "full repeal" of ordinances in latest statementKENS 5 TV
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