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5 Tricks to Avoid Uber New Year’s Eve Pricing Surges
After the ball drops and the bubbly pops to ring in the new year, the last thing you want to…
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Tech
Lyft Aspired to Kill Car Ownership. Now It Aims to Profit From It
Lyft customers know it as the bright-pink app to tap when they need a car ride or to rent a…
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Tech
Uber Squeezed Europe’s Taxi Drivers. Now It Wants to Hire Them
Drivers like Hubert might be skeptical of Uber’s deals, but within some unions there is real hostility toward the company.…
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Tech
Ford Abandons the Self-Driving Road to Nowhere
Self-driving car developer Argo AI suddenly announced that it was closing its doors this week. Some of its 1,800-odd employees,…
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Tech
California Voted for Cheaper Uber and Lyft Rides. It May Have Hurt Drivers
In 2020, California voters approved Proposition 22, a law that app-based companies including Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash said would improve…
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Uber Is Expanding EV Rides, Commits to an EV-Only Fleet by 2030
Uber’s Comfort Electric service, which lets customers request EVs, is expanding from operating solely in California to 25 cities throughout…
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Uber Says It Was Likely Hacked by Teenage Hacker Gang LAPSUS$
Photo: Matthew Horwood (Getty Images) Uber has published additional information about how it was hacked, claiming that it was targeted…
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Tech
Undocumented Workers Protest Uber Eats Crackdown
These deactivations have enraged French unions, which believe Uber Eats is deactivating accounts as growth stalls. “The decision took place…
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Tech
Gig Workers Are Losing Their Hard-Won Rights
Not all of Just Eat’s orange-clad couriers were switched to salaried contracts, and the company did continue to use self-employed…
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Tech
How Might Your Data Be Used to Pin Charges on You?
This week’s big news in tech: Uber behaved badly. A massive document dump reveals that it knowingly broke laws to…
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