Tag: uber

• Uber’s Gig Workers Now Include Coders for Hire on AI Projects

  November 28, 2024

  Uber Technologies Inc.’s gig-economy workforce now includes programmers. The company is expanding beyond its rideshare roots to enter a hot new market: helping other businesses outsource some of their artificial… more ›

• The Decade of Cheap Rides Is Over

  May 20, 2022

  How American life was changed by a subsidy Uber and Lyft can no longer afford. https://slate.com/business/2022/05/uber-subsidy-lyft-cheap-rides.html more ›

• The future of micromobility: Ridership and revenue after a crisis

  August 23, 2020

  The COVID-19 crisis is causing serious disruptions to the multibillion-dollar micromobility industry. Our analysis indicates that a full recovery is possible, as long as companies prepare for the next normal.… more ›

• Exclusive: Inside Uber’s billion-dollar bet to deliver food, people, and everything else

  July 12, 2020

  Earlier this week, Uber acquired Postmates, the number-four player in the food delivery space, for $2.65 billion. It was a clear statement that Uber is no longer just a rides… more ›

• Uber’s Path of Destruction

  June 18, 2019

  Since it began operations in 2010, Uber has grown to the point where it now collects over $45 billion in gross passenger revenue, and it has seized a major share… more ›

• Uber, Lyft drivers manipulate fares at Reagan National causing artificial price surges

  May 26, 2019

  Every night, several times a night, Uber and Lyft drivers at Reagan National Airport simultaneously turn off their ride share apps for a minute or two to trick the app… more ›

• Uber drivers are freelancers, not employees, federal labor lawyer says

  May 15, 2019

  Uber drivers are independent contractors, not employees of the ride-hailing company, the federal labor board’s general counsel said in an opinion released May 14th. https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/14/18623467/uber-driver-freelancers-employees-federal-labor-lawyer-contractor more ›

• Uber Questions

  April 22, 2019

  Over the course of Uber’s remarkable rise — very significant stumbles along the way notwithstanding — it has been more prudent to defend the company’s valuation than to question it.… more ›

• The Servant Economy

  March 10, 2019

  In March 2009, Uber was born. Over the next few years, the company became not just a disruptive, controversial transportation company, but a model for dozens of venture-funded companies. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/what-happened-uber-x-companies/584236/ more ›

• Google Cabs And Uber Bots Will Challenge Jobs…

  May 19, 2018

  Google Cabs And Uber Bots Will Challenge Jobs 'Below The API' » Uber and Google appear to be parting ways according to a report by Bloomberg’s Brad Stone Monday. Google… more ›