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Lyft Asks Banks for Pitches to Underwrite 2019 IPO [Bloomberg]
"Lyft Inc., the second-largest U.S. ride-hailing company, has asked banks to submit formal pitches to underwrite an initial …
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Comedian Katt Williams charged with assaulting Uber driver
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) - Comedian Katt Williams was arrested in Portland, Oregon, after being accused of assaulting the …
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Lyft Driver and Passenger convince man not to commit suicide
Your feel good story for the day, your welcome! "Zachary Laxton has been a driver for the ride-sharing service for …
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Lyft is paying riders in 30 cities to NOT drive their own cars for 1 month!
"Chicago was the first city to accept the challenge of going car-free for an entire month. Now, residents of 35 …
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New Service? UberSubmarine.
LOL
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Uber is striving to make half of all London rides shared with UberPool
I find this especially interesting since I have read multiple reports recently that both riders and drivers do not like …
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Uber now announces it will create a $3 million defense fund to help cover the legal expenses associated with Trump's travel ban.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/29/uber-customers-lash-out-at-ride-sharing-service-amid-anti-travel-ban-protests.html
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What?! Uber driver beat up passenger with a baton for getting snow in his car!
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170126/logan-square/uber-driver-muntsr-abuseini-baton-attack-charges-snow-road-rage
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Watch out Bird, Lime, Skip, & Scoot Revel's coming. The infestation continues to grow in some cities
https://finance-yahoo-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/revel-rideshare-moped-scooter-uber-lyft-150517295.html?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Frevel-rideshare-moped-scooter-uber-lyft-150517295.htmlRevel is offering Mopeds along the lines of a Vespa. No surprise here, you download their app, find a …
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Apparently Lyft Tripled their Rides in 2016
They still have a long way to go to catch Uber though. Uber had 78 million rides in December and …
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Delete Didi, the new social media campaign?
Seems like people love to hate their main ridesahre company whether it is Uber in the US or Didi in …
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Uber and Snapchat?? A new Uber feature allows you to travel right to your friends & use snapchat on the way!
I thought the new location service integration was a stretch for Uber, I'm not sure how I feel about Uber …
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"Uber’s NY executive to drivers: No more price cuts" - Bet's on how long this will actually last for?
I give it till the new year... http://www.recode.net/2016/12/4/13835514/uber-drivers-new-york-fare-cuts-josh-mohrer
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Fake surges going on for over and hour and drivers in that area not being able to catch a ride in that busy area at all during the surge- (Los Angeles)-Total manipulation of riders and drivers.
Drivers and (Riders) Beware:Since the roll-out of the update last week, all of the sudden in Santa Monica where …
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Are autonomous cars good for riders?
I was thinking about this after reading this morning's news that Google is aiming to launch an autonomous rideshare service …
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Uber is now using your trip data to create restaurant guides - is this going a bit too far?
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/17/ubers-new-restaurant-guide-uses-trip-data-to-tell-you-where-to-eat/
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'I Wonder What They Are Hiding:' Lyft Drivers Can No Longer See How Much Riders Paid For Each Trip
Lyft not showing trip details any longer, specifically what the passengers pay, less transparency is better for them I guess …
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What Uber’s Spies Really Did
A former co-worker accused the men of wiretapping their colleagues, hacking foreign governments and stealing trade secrets. It wasn’t true, …
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Waymo, Uber, Ford, and others are joining forces to explore the ‘human impact’ of self-driving cars [Verge]
Is this really about the people and those who will be impacted by self-driving cars? or another corporate bull? "Driverless …
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Lyft opens "Driver Center"
In the olden days, they called it a cab garage... If it quacks like a duck, it's time we …