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Fast Company
Mark Sullivan |
Uber Agrees To Encrypt All User Geodata To Close "God View" Investigation Uber has reached a settlement with the New York state attorney general requiring it to encrypt riders' geolocation information and implement other rider privacy protections.   |
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
Chris Gayomali |
Uber's Trust Problem It's worrisome that a company that has raised $1.3 billion in capital has so publicly shown such a flagrant disregard for its customers' privacy. |
CIO
May 3, 2012
Grant Gross |
Mobile Experts Disagree on Who Should Protect Privacy A privacy consultant calls on app developers to be more responsible, while a developer points to app marketplace operators |
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 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. |
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
Neal Ungerleider |
Apple Took Down An Ad Blocker For Apps Over Privacy Concerns Been Choice, which just launched this week and blocks advertising even in native apps like Apple News, was removed from circulation due to concerns that the app was tracking user traffic. |
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 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. |
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
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
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
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. |
InternetNews
September 7, 2010 |
Google Faces Heat Over Privacy Tweaks A move to reduce legalese has one privacy advocacy group up in arms. |
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. |
Information Today
February 17, 2011 |
Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store Apple, Inc. announced a new subscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. |
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. |
CRM
May 14, 2015 |
Nimble Launches Smart Contacts App Nimble Smart Contacts offers insights on people and companies for Web browsers and email inboxes. |
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. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Uber Will Now Deliver Xiaomi Smartphones To Your Door Xiaomi, a Chinese phone giant looking to boost its profile in global markets, is attempting the mother of all publicity stunts: delivering phones to customers by Uber. |
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
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
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 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
Neal Ungerleider |
The Teamsters Of The 21st Century: How Uber, Lyft, And Facebook Drivers Are Organizing When you think of the Teamsters, you might still think Jimmy Hoffa. But you should also now think Uber, Lyft, and even Facebook. |
InternetNews
July 28, 2010 |
Mobile Apps Are Hot, But Are They Safe? The proliferation of mobile apps for the smartphone market is big business but security experts are warning that many of the apps are built on third-party code that may not be properly vetted for security risks. |
The Motley Fool
August 28, 2010
Daniel Bailey |
App Store Crosses 250,000 Apps It's been little more than two years and Apple's app store is receiving some 600 new apps every day. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Uber's Big Round Of Chinese Funding Could Signal IPO Uber has just secured a round of funding from Chinese investment management firm Hillhouse Capital Group, according to the Wall Street Journal. |
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
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
July 2001
Erika Germer |
Chief Privacy Officer Job Titles of the Future: It's no secret that consumer privacy is a weighty concern -- especially for a company with 90 million customers. That's why AT&T named Michael Lamb its first chief privacy officer. Lamb wants to make privacy a priority that's out in the open... |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2010
Carl Bagh |
Google Voice App Now on Apple iPhone Apple's acceptance of Google Voice and its recent acceptance of an app by Skyfire that translates Adobe flash code into HTML speaks of Apple's slow but imminent conversion towards an open approach regarding its app store. |
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. |
CRM
September 24, 2014
Maria Minsker |
Salesforce.com Launches Journey Builder for Apps; Partners with Omnicom The new solution enables companies to incorporate mobile apps into customer journeys. |
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. |
CRM
September 2014
Maria Minsker |
Uber Exemplifies Forrester's 'TRUE' Brand Qualities To compete in the services economy, organizations must satisfy four requirements. |
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. |
Insurance & Technology
April 20, 2005
Anthony O'Donnell |
Gray Shares Perspective Kimberly Gray, chief privacy officer of Highmark, brings a special perspective of the health insurance industry to the International Association of Privacy Professionals. |
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. |
CRM
September 2014
Deanna Laufer |
What Makes a Successful Mobile User Experience? Uncovering the traits that set industry leaders apart. |
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
July 2004
Lucas Conley |
Refusing to Gamble on Privacy Chief global privacy officer at Proctor & Gamble expands on the company's approach to privacy, the need for consistency, and the challenges associated with keeping up with change around the world. |
Fast Company
Chris Gayomali |
FYI: The New Foursquare App Will Track Your Location Even When Closed Foursquare revealed a splashy overhaul yesterday that transformed the location service into an app that serves up smart suggestions for your next meal. |
CRM
February 14, 2013
Kelly Liyakasa |
Gartner Predicts a Surge in the Enterprise App Store By 2017, 25 percent of enterprises will host their own store. |
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. |
CIO
February 1, 2002
Lorraine Cosgrove Ware |
Invest in Privacy Policies and Keep Your Customers To maintain loyalty, it's important to consider your customers and recognize what other companies are doing to ensure their privacy... |
CIO
April 30, 2013
Lauren Brousell |
5 Reasons to Build an Enterprise Mobile App Store IT departments can keep employees from using malware-infested mobile apps by creating an internal store of company-approved apps. The store can also collect feedback from users about their preferences. |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2010
Wade Roush |
OpenAppMkt: The Return of the iPhone Web App? Let the apps flow! |
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. |
