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Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Uber's New Feature Makes Commuting Home A Little Sweeter For Drivers Uber drivers in the Bay Area now have access to a feature that lets them pick up only riders who wish to travel in the same general direction they are headed. |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Why The Insurance Industry Is Taking Aim At Uber and Lyft Two bills are now up for approval in California (where both companies are based) that could force an overhaul in their insurance models -- and result in higher fares for customers. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Uber Driver Is Employee, California Regulators Rule [Updated] The California Labor Commission has ruled that former San Francisco-based Uber driver Barbara Ann Berwick was, in fact, an employee of Uber, not an independent contractor. |
Fast Company Sarah Kessler |
Uber Is Now Facing A Much Bigger Lawsuit A U.S. district judge granted Uber drivers class-action status in a lawsuit that claims they were incorrectly categorized as contract workers -- which may now apply to tens of thousands of drivers in California. |
Fast Company Sarah Kessler |
A Consulting Firm Hired By Uber Found That Its Drivers Are Very Happy Uber's survey seems to paint a selective picture of its drivers. Which is exactly what it's designed to do. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Uber Mistakenly Exposed The Personal Data Of Hundreds Of Drivers The ride-hailing company accidentally released the personal information of hundreds of its drivers, allegedly leaking social security numbers, scans of drivers' licenses, taxi certification forms, and other private data. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Uber's Background Checks Missed Murder And DUI Convictions, Prosecutors Say A recent amendment to a lawsuit filed against Uber last year indicates that the ride-hailing app's screening process for prospective drivers is far from foolproof. |
Fast Company Alice Truong |
"Shave The Stache": Lyft And Uber Turn To Mobile Billboards To Recruit Drivers As Lyft and Uber scale their e-hailing operations, they're focusing much of their efforts on recruitment -- or, more accurately, poaching. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Uber To Lease Cars Directly To UberX Drivers The next natural step for the company, announced Wednesday, is to reduce the barrier to entry for prospective Uber drivers by rejiggering its leasing program. |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Lyft Teams Up With Hertz And Shell Lyft, the perennial Avis to Uber's Hertz, is introducing a number of perks for its team of drivers. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Uber Fined $7.3 Million By California Regulators, Risks Suspension A California government agency has hit Uber with a $7.3 million fine for withholding information from regulators, the Associated Press reports. |
Fast Company October 2015 Max Chafkin |
What Makes Uber Run Travis Kalanick, the head of Uber, has been presented in an almost cartoonish light, coming off as either a Randian Superman, a Snidely Whiplash -- style mustache-twirling villain, or both. |
Fast Company Rebecca Greenfield |
UN Women Says It Has No Plans To Collaborate With Uber On Job Creation (Updated) Just 10 days after Uber announced a global program to get more women drivers, UN Women has backed away from its highly publicized partnership to create 1 million jobs for women. |
Fast Company Alice Truong |
Lyft And Uber Want You To Carpool With Strangers Using a carpool-like model, the company said Lyft Line will offer discounted fares that are 30% to 60% lower than a regular Lyft ride |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Report: Cabbies Are Getting Nicer -- And We Have Uber To Thank Research from the Technology Policy Institute supports the theory that taxi drivers are becoming nicer -- and attributes it to the rise of the ride-hailing startup Uber. |
Fast Company Alice Truong |
Uber Will Let Customers Know When Surge Pricing Has Ended Uber has taken plenty of heat for its surge-price policy during busy hours, but the e-hailing startup tried to assuage this backlash Monday by announcing a feature that will let customers know when surge pricing has ended. |
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005 Dean Foust |
The Ground War At FedEx Drivers are suing to protest their status as contractors -- and gaining traction |
Fast Company Michael Grothaus |
Uber Will Pay $7.6 Million Fine For Failing To Share Data Uber has agreed to pay the state of California $7.6 million for failing to share enough data about the trips users have taken using the service |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Uber Debuts A Commuter Service In China [Updated] Now that China's leading ride-hailing company, Didi Kuaidi, has forged a partnership with Lyft, Uber is facing pressure to step up its game in the region. |
Job Journal April 25, 2010 |
Career Snapshot: Truck Driver An improving economy means transport companies will be hiring more truck drivers. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Uber Managers In France Arrested Uber France CEO Thibaud Simphal and Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, the general manager of Uber's Western Europe division, were charged for "illegal taxi operations" and for "concealing digital documents." |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
An Uber Competitor Is Coming To New York's Taxi Fleet Creative Mobile Technologies, which provides the ubiquitous credit card readers and Taxi TV monitors to half of New York's cabs, has inked a partnership with Arro to hail yellow and green cabs via smartphone. |
Job Journal May 1, 2005 Julia Hollister |
Driving Ambition There's a driving demand for employees at charter, taxi and trucking firms. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Uber Protest in Paris: French Cabbies Blockade Roads, Assault Drivers 2,800 cabbies are rallying nationwide in response to the ride-hailing app's continued operation in France. |
Fast Company Evie Nagy |
Lyft Teams Up With Verizon To Find New Riders Through Their Phones Lyft has a new strategy to get its ride-sharing app onto more people's phones: have the app installed on new phones before they're sold. |
Fast Company Rose Pastore |
As Uber Seeks Another $2 Billion, Its Rivals Form Alliance Competing ride-hailing apps Lyft, Didi Kuaidi, Ola, and GrabTaxi have formed a global alliance to share technology and strategy in order the take on Uber. |
Fast Company John Paul Titlow |
Lyft Just Raised $530 Million To Challenge Uber For Ride-Sharing Supremacy Lyft is creeping into new markets, reaching profitability in many of them -- and, most importantly, raking in a ton of cash. |
Fast Company June 2014 Om Malik |
Uber Is the New Google Google may be more than 15 years old and a search-and-advertising behemoth, and Uber may be a five-year-old startup remaking urban transportation. But they think the same. |
Fast Company John Paul Titlow |
Uber Has A Security Problem And This Facebook Vet Wants To Fix It Uber knows it has a security problem and is apparently very serious about addressing it. Today, they hired longtime Facebook security chief Joe Sullivan away from the social networking giant. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Uber Relaxes Screening Requirements For California Drivers The company is intentionally easing up on its screening requirements, to give nonviolent criminals a chance to become Uber drivers. |
HBS Working Knowledge August 17, 2015 Michael Blanding |
Who Is Boss In The Sharing Economy? The recent controversy over whether Uber drivers are employees or independent contractors ignores the obvious: The answer is somewhere in between, says Andrei Hagiu. |
Fast Company Sarah Kessler |
Uber Partners With The University Of Arizona On Self-Driving Cars Uber is teaming up with the University of Arizona to continue its research into self-driving cars. |
Fast Company September 14, 2011 Alyssa Giacobbe |
PlanetTran, Uber and RelayRides Want To Take You On A Fantastic (And Green) Voyage When innovative cab companies launch, the old-guard competition doesn't play nice. |
Fast Company David Lumb |
Uber Set To Pilot Same-Day Delivery Service For Retailers Uber is planning to harness its fleet of drivers and UberRush couriers for same-day delivery of merchant goods bought online. |
Job Journal April 30, 2006 Julia Hollister |
Rev Up Your Career If you have a driving ambition, here's a look at three opportunities that await you. |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Uber Updates Privacy Policies Ridesharing giant Uber has just revised its privacy policy to track riders' locations even when the app is not being used, and to send promotional discounts to friends and family members. |
Job Journal May 27, 2007 Julia Hollister |
Always On The Move The transportation industry offers many ways to take the wheel. |
Job Journal October 12, 2003 Julia Hollister |
Rewarding Routes for Drivers Safe drivers have loads of opportunity for taking their careers on the road. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Report: Uber Deems China Its "Number One Priority" Since making its way to China last year, Uber has grown exponentially in cities like Hangzhou and Chengdu. |
Fast Company John Paul Titlow |
Uber's Legal Woes In Spain Force It Into Food Delivery UberEats, much like its counterpart UberFresh in Los Angeles, will serve users with prepared meals on demand in Barcelona. |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2008 Colleen Paulson |
FedEx's Driver Disagreement Is self-employment really the American dream? And what does it mean to be self-employed, anyway? FedEx and its independent contractor ground drivers are facing those questions right now. |
Job Journal September 12, 2004 Julia Hollister |
Plenty of Work Behind the Wheel If you like to drive, you can find a career commandeering a wide range of vehicles. |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2003 Traci Purdum |
Less Time To Keep On Truckin' New rules on truck drivers are aimed at reducing fatigue-related accidents. The limitation on driving time could raise costs and impact manufacturers. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Google Hit With Worker Lawsuit A week after Amazon's delivery workers brought charges against the company, Google is facing a similar class action lawsuit filed by a driver for its same-day delivery service, Google Express. |
Fast Company Chris Gayomali |
Time For A Career Shift? New York City UberX Drivers Can Earn $90,766 A Year How much does an UberX driver make compared to a regular cabbie? |
CIO March 11, 2013 Tom Kaneshige |
Mobile App Drives Digital Disruption for London Taxi Company Mobile transportation apps like Hailo and others have forced traditional taxi companies to pull a strategic u-turn. Here's the story of how 60-year-old Radio Taxis Group of London has gone digital and mobile to catch up to Hailo's disruptive powers. |
PC Magazine January 1, 2008 Neil Randall |
Installing Hardware Drivers Installing hardware drivers on Linux has grown easier over the years. With today's Ubuntu many drivers are built right into the OS (as with Windows), whereas others can be downloaded and installed easily. |
The Motley Fool December 27, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Will the Delivery Companies Deliver? FedEx and UPS are being hit by fuel costs and a soft economy. Is it time to shelve them? |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
What The Leaked Uber Documents Don't Tell Us What appear to be leaked internal Uber documents posted on Gawker indicate the transportation company lost significant amounts of money in recent years. |
Fast Company Evie Nagy |
The Women Leaders Driving Lyft's Impressive Growth Kira Wampler joined Lyft in December from her most recent post at Trulia as part of the ride sharing company's expanding executive team after a year of reported five-fold growth in rides and revenue. |