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Uber Slammed Over Pricing Surge After Brooklyn Subway Shooting
"Uber came under fire on Tuesday after several customers noted that prices on the ride-sharing app increased significantly following a …
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Is Uber contributing to our obesity problem?
Many of my friends will now take Ubers even for short distances becuase they are so cheap and readily available. …
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Lyft sinks 12%, falls below IPO price - Calling it a "Gut check for Uber"
CNBCThe stock ended trading at $69.01, 22 percent below its Friday intraday high of $88.60More than 41 million …
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Lyft, Uber, Pinterest: Are internet unicorns really worth billions?
Great article. I took two big concerns raised for Lyft IPO.However, transportation as a service is a nascent industry. …
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Lyft expects to IPO at the end of this week. Outlook is grim but they are going through with it anyways.
Mumbo jumbo to me, but it doesn't sound rosy.SummaryLyft expects to IPO at the end of this week. …
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Uber to Seal $3.1 Billion Deal to Buy Careem This Week
Uber is set to announce a $3.1 billion cash-and-share deal to acquire its Dubai-based rival Careem as early as this …
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How to avoid buying a Used Uber/Lyft Car.
Never thought of the implications Uber/Lyft would have on the used car market. Interesting. What the article says you shoudl …
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Cannabis is coming to Uber!
Good news fellow Canadians! Soon you will be able to order pot on Uber! Whoop! https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59342016
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Lyft Founders Conspire to Take Control of $7.5 Billion Uber Competitor | CCN
Is this shady? I can't tell."The founders of Lyft, John Zimmer and Logan Green, are working on a plan …
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Oops, you're not Uber: Drunk Glendale man cited after mistakenly flagging down police
File this under "Dumb Criminals".https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/northshore/2019/02/27/glendale-man-cited-after-flagging-down-police-instead-uber/3003545002/
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Scary Stuff! Dashcam video catches the moment rider tries to hijack the vehicle from driver
This is why I don't like people sitting in the front. He could have killed them both!https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/01/23/passenger-grabs-steering-wheel-uber-dashcam-mxp-vpx.hln
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says there's a chance the company may not IPO in 2019 after all
Umm, what? After all that hype?Khosrowshahi told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Tuesday that he and …
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As per Uber, passengers are driver's customer and drivers are Uber's customers
https://ride.guru/content/newsroom/is-uber-just-a-payment-collection-agency-for-drivers-now-must-read-for-all-drivers-passengers
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How will the new wage hikes in NYC really effect drivers since there is a over abundance of cars ?
Obviously the fares will be raised considerably including out of town fares although it is just a turning point for …
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Uber's self driving car division has a strange term for people and animals...
We're all squishy things! How about that?https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-autonomous-driving-unit-used-strange-term-for-people-and-animals-2018-11Employees in Uber's self-driving unit have referred to a human and …
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The San Francisco air quality is so bad that Uber drivers are selling masks out of their cars [Recode]
The city has seen some of the worst air quality in the world in the past few days.California’s devastating …
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San Francisco Uber driver distributing filter masks to passengers
At times this week, wildfires made San Francisco's air the worst in the world, and the city's stores have largely …
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Wow. Uber Hub has separate bathrooms for "drivers" and "employees"
Shows just how 2nd class they view their drivers. unreal.https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwwqw/uber-office-had-separate-bathrooms-for-drivers-and-employees
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Too Many Fake Uber Drivers Cost Service Its License in London
Unauthorized drivers set up fake accounts and picked up passengers who thought they were legit, and this happened 14,000 times, …
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Uber is trying to pose at the "next Amazon". Do you agree?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/uber-the-next-amazon-but-others-see-the-next-yahoo