Jul 20, 2019 | Uber news
Oscar Pierre is the 26-year-old cofounder and CEO of Glovo, a delivery startup with a presence in 178 cities, across 23 countries. The company has raised $340 million since it was founded in 2015 and Pierre says it borrowed part of its growth strategy from Uber....
Jul 19, 2019 | Uber news
Uber and Lyft going public may have put closer public scrutiny on the economics of ridesharing, but it hasn’t had a chilling effect on the level of competition in the space. In the latest development, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Bolt, the Estonian...
Jul 18, 2019 | Uber news
In a growing number of cities where rideshare platforms operate, drivers are fed up with the low pay, long hours, and lack of basic worker protections that shlepping strangers around entails. In the U.S., this has led to large, coordinated protests and attempts to...
Jul 18, 2019 | Uber news
JONESBORO, Ark. – After a night downtown with several friends, a Jonesboro couple used Uber to take a ride home. They ended up being taken for a ride of a different kind when they were fraudulently charged $150 for a mess they could not have created. Reports call it...
Jul 17, 2019 | Uber news
Uber’s architecture and engineering partners have unveiled some new skyport designs. To be clear, Skyports are the areas where people will be able to board and disembark from Uber Air vehicles. At Uber Elevate today, eight firms unveiled 16 new designs for Skyports....
Jul 17, 2019 | Uber news
Uber is rolling out a new way to request extra legroom, quiet cars, and other amenities that are typically associated with its higher-priced Uber Black service. Dubbed Uber Comfort, the new service will be available today in over 40 markets in North America. Uber...
Jul 16, 2019 | Uber news
SAN FRANCISCO — As Lyft and Uber became part of the nation’s transportation systems, people who use non-folding wheelchairs felt left on the sidelines because the cars couldn’t accommodate them. That’s slowly starting to change. The two San Francisco companies on July...
Jul 15, 2019 | Uber news
GEORGIA — Lauren Mulvihill did not know what to expect when she was called to the hospital for an Uber pick up. 89-year-old Ronald Dembner had just been discharged from the hospital with no one to take him home. Last week, Mulvihill drove Dembner from the hospital in...
Jul 14, 2019 | Uber news
Rideshare drivers in California turned out in droves in support of a state bill that would classify them as full employees. They walked away this afternoon with another victory in what is and is likely to continue to be a long and ugly fight. First introduced to the...
Jul 13, 2019 | Uber news
You can get access to Uber’s controversial Quiet Ride button that lets you ask your driver for silence if you’ll pay a 20% to 40% premium atop the UberX price. Today the Uber Comfort tier launches in 43 cities and smaller states in the US plus Ottawa, offering those...
Recent Comments