Lyft

Lyft, Inc. is a ridesharing company based in San Francisco, California and operating in 640 cities in the United States and 9 cities in Canada. It develops, markets, and operates the Lyft mobile app, offering car rides, scooters, and a bicycle-sharing system.

(source: lyft.com)

Politics And Cabbies Clash In Ridesharing Market
Politics And Cabbies Clash In Ridesharing Market
January 06, 2015  |  Hmmm

The rise in popularity in the ridesharing market did exactly what e-Commerce did to traditional brick-and-mortar retail. It disrupted the space, undercut business models and angered...

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Uber Valuation Hits $41 Billion
Uber Valuation Hits $41 Billion
December 05, 2014  |  Mobile Commerce

Mobile cab service Uber Technologies is now valued at $41 billion, thanks to its latest round of funding. “We have just raised a financing round...

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Loup New Service: More Reliable Than A Bus, Cheaper Than A Car
Loup New Service: More Reliable Than A Bus, Cheaper Than A Car
December 03, 2014  |  Mobile Commerce

In what is at least the third mobile-enabled scheduled-car alternative to San Francisco buses, a startup called Loup is selling space in black sedans that...

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Lyft’s Employee Expense Account Plan
Lyft’s Employee Expense Account Plan
November 16, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Considering how much time employees spending filling out expense reports and then how much accounts payable spend in processing those reports—let’s not even mention the...

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Ride-Sharing Services Get More Legal Pushback
Ride-Sharing Services Get More Legal Pushback
September 26, 2014  |  Mobile

The District Attorneys of Los Angeles and San Francisco are threatening three prominent mobile ride services—Uber Technologies, Lyft and Sidecar—with injunctions and accused them of...

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Uber’s Dirty-Trick Tactics Revealed
Uber’s Dirty-Trick Tactics Revealed
August 28, 2014  |  Merchant Innovation

Uber gave burner iPhones and credit cards to contracted “brand ambassadors” as part of a campaign to sabotage Lyft’s launch in New York, The Verge...

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Square’s $6 Billion Valuation
Square’s $6 Billion Valuation
August 27, 2014  |  Mobile

Privately-held Square has authorized a tender offer that places the company’s self-declared value at $6 billion, CNBC reported. To put that into context, Square’s similar...

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