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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 |
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 |
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
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
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 |
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
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
Jessica Hullinger |
GM Partners With Lyft To Build A Network Of Self-Driving Cars Lyft, the ride-hailing startup, announced today that it is partnering with General Motors to create a network of on-demand self-driving cars. |
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
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
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
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
Neal Ungerleider |
Lyft Cofounder: We're On Track For $1 Billion In Gross Annual Revenue However, Lyft has also been dipping into its profits to acquire those new customers. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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. |
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
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 |
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. |
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. |
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
Daniel Terdiman |
Uber Plans IPO, Could Go Public Within 18 Months The San Francisco-based ride-sharing giant is expected to book nearly $11 billion in business this year and could file for an initial public offering in 18 to 24 months. |
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 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
Christina Farr |
Sidecar Shutters Its Delivery And Ride-Hailing Service Ride-hailing startup Sidecar has long been overshadowed by its rivals Uber and Lyft. |
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
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. |
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
Rose Pastore |
Carnegie Mellon "In A Crisis" After Uber Poached 40 Of Its Researchers The Wall Street Journal says that the robotics center at Carnegie Mellon is "scrambling to recover" after the ride-hailing company Uber hired 40 of its scientists. |
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
Christina Farr |
Lyft Wants To Help Seniors Get To Medical Appointments On Time Lyft, an app that lets you hail a ride with a smartphone, is expanding into a surprising new demographic: senior citizens without smartphones. |
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. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Apple Weathers The First Major Malware Attack On Its App Store Over the weekend, Apple revealed that malware found its way into the App Store on a mass scale after several of China's most popular apps were infected with code that could snoop on iOS devices and steal passwords. |
DailyCandy
October 14, 2005 |
Tapped for Greatness Let the Uber Tap make you the ubermeister at your next uberkegger. |
Fast Company
Harry McCracken |
Lyft Gives Its App A Fresher, More Transparent, More One-Handed Update Ride-on-demand service Lyft is releasing a new version of its app today -- for iOS at first, with an Android version arriving next month. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Google Wanted To Invest In Uber So Badly, It Gave CEO Travis Kalanick A Blank Term Sheet Bill Maris, the president of Google Ventures, says he started trying to invest in Uber as early as 2011. |
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
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
John Paul Titlow |
Is Airbnb About To Become A $24 Billion Company? Just two months after Uber announced its quest for a $1.5 billion round of funding that would value the company at $50 billion, Airbnb appears to be on a similar track |
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. |
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
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. |
