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RidesharingMicrosoft Invests In Grab; The Two Form Strategic Alliance
Microsoft and Grab, the on-demand transportation, mobile payments, and online-to-offline services platform in Southeast Asia, announced Monday (October 9) a strategic partnership...
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RidesharingTaxify Beats Uber In Africa
Taxify, the African ride-hailing app company, is ahead of Uber Technologies, moving from an Estonian startup to a tech unicorn within five...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsToyota Invests $500 Million In Uber As Part Of New Partnership
Toyota Motor is gearing up to invest $500 million in ride-hailing company Uber Technologies as part of a deal to work on...
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RidesharingUber And Careem In Talks To End Costly Rivalry
Uber Technologies, the ride-hailing company, is reportedly in early-stage talks with Careem Networks, the Middle East-based ride-hailing company, to combine operations or for Uber...
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RidesharingUber To Charge Less For Riders Willing To Wait
Uber is reportedly gearing up to roll out a new pricing structure in which users can get cheaper rides if they are...
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DeliveryUber To Expand UberEats In Europe, Middle East, Africa
Ride-hailing company Uber is gearing up to expand its food delivery service, bringing UberEats into 100 new cities this year. According to...
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RidesharingUber Confirms SoftBank-Led Investment
Ridesharing app Uber confirmed the company has reached a deal, paving the way for Japan’s SoftBank to invest in it, according to...
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RidesharingLyft Raises $1B Led By Google
Ride-hailing platform Lyft, a competitor to Uber, announced Thursday (Oct. 19) that CapitalG, Alphabet’s growth investment fund, was the lead investor in a $1...
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RidesharingDOJ Investigates More Allegations At Uber
Uber, the embattled ride-hailing company, is reportedly facing five or more criminal investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), two of...
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RidesharingExpedia’s CEO Confirms He’s The New Uber CEO
In Uber news, Expedia chief executive officer Dara Khosrowshahi confirmed Tuesday (Aug. 29) he will become the new chief executive of ridesharing...
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RidesharingUber Driver Tips To Hit $50 Million
Ridesharing mobile app platform Uber rolled out the ability to tip drivers through its app back in June and has already seen positive results...
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InnovationUber Launches In-App Chat Feature
Uber, the ride-hailing company, launched an in-app chat feature Thursday (Aug. 10). According to a report in Mashable with the new feature...
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Payment MethodsUber, Lyft To Roll Out Co-Branded Credit Cards
Uber Technologies and Lyft, the two ride-hailing startups, are reportedly getting into the payments markets with their own credit cards. According to...
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RidesharingUber And Yandex To Create New Company In Russia
Uber announced Thursday (July 13) that it is teaming up with Yandex to create a new company that combines its Rides and...
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RidesharingTown Of Innisfil Subsidizes Uber Rides For Residents
Uber, the ride-hailing app, is being embraced by the town of Innisfil in Canada at time when cities across the country and...
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RidesharingChina’s Didi Raises $5.5 Billion In Latest Round Of Funding
Didi Chuxing, the Chinese ride-hailing company, has raised greater than $5.5 billion in what is being billed as the largest round of...
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RidesharingUber Lifts Financial Hood, Billions In Sales And Losses
The ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies has given investors and observers a glimpse under the hood of sorts. Bloomberg News reports that the technology upstart...
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Security & FraudUber Falling Out Of Favor With American Consumers?
Uber, the leading ride hailing app in the U.S., is facing a backlash among consumers who are increasingly balking at using the...
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RidesharingUber Getting Into The Patent-Purchasing Business
Uber, the ride-hailing app, announced Tuesday (April 11) that it is getting into the patent-purchasing business, launching a patent purchase program dubbed...
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RidesharingLyft Close To Raising $500M, Giving It A $7.5B Valuation
Lyft, the ride-hailing startup, is close to raising higher than $500 million in funding, giving it a valuation of $7.5 billion, reported Fortune...
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DeliveryKroger Testing Out Home Deliveries With Uber
The Kroger Co. is looking into ways to get online orders to its shoppers faster and more efficiently by testing out Uber...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsDaimler Nearing $43M Deal To Buy Taxibeat
Daimler, the German car maker, is close to inking a deal to acquire Taxibeat, a profitable ride-hailing app in Athens. According to...
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Uber Cashing In On Cash Payments
Being an on-demand app, most consumers think about Uber as being cash-free, electronic payments that are made in-app without much thought from...
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NewsCash Still King For Uber In Indonesia
Cash isn’t king everywhere, but in Indonesia, it’s still a main payment option. To keep in tune with how consumers in the region...
- Mobile Commerce
Verifone Acquires Curb To Expand Taxi e-Hail Payments Business
Verifone announced today (Oct. 13) that it has expanded its taxi and car-for-hire electronic hailing (e-hail), payment and media business with the acquisition of...
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Mobile CommerceUber Gets Into Prepaid Service With UberEvents
Uber is testing out a new prepaid ride service that takes the ride-sharing company into the events space in NYC. While Uber’s...
- Mobile Commerce
China’s Didi Kuaidi-Uber Funding Battle Heats Up
The Didi Kuaidi-Uber rivalry isn’t going away anytime soon, particularly as the two ride-hailing companies vie to get top funding from investors as...
- Mobile Commerce
New Startup Gives NYC Taxis Lifeline Against Uber
The New York taxi industry just got a ride-hailing weapon to use against Uber. A new startup called Arro is using Uber-like tech...
- Mobile Commerce
Uber Financials Breakdown — The Top 5 Takeaways
With Uber headed for its global IPO next year, people got a sneak peek into the financials, booking and revenue as Reuters...
- Merchant Innovation
UberEATS Revs Up At Uber
Uber is rolling out an upgrade to its app and it has nothing to do with its ride-hailing service. Instead, this update...
- Mobile Commerce
Uber China Could Be Headed For Public Spotlight
Uber’s dominance in the Chinese ride-hailing market might be able to make it a publicly traded company — but probably not anytime...
