As Uber, Lyft and other ridesharing companies continue to prosper, California is seeing a reckoning with the question of their need for regular taxis. To fight back against the dominance of ridesharing apps, the City of Los Angeles is enacting sweeping changes to its taxi...
Uber will cease operating in Colombia at the end of the month, the company said in a statement. The decision — the latest blow to the rideshare company — comes after protests from Colombian taxi drivers that Uber was breaking the rules of the country’s...
FlixMobility, a German transport app, on Thursday reported a 37% increase in passenger travel in 2019. The company, with an app similar to Uber’s, partners with private sector mass transit companies. “In just seven years, we have managed to become the largest bus provider in...
For some people, it can seem almost utopian: The sight of countless commuters using bikes in certain European cities, and not just for recreation or short rides to the park, but for daily work and grocery trips, and even weekend journeys to the country. That...
As Los Angeles aims to get additional electric vehicles on the roads and reduce emissions, the city is thinking about making rideshare platforms like Lyft and Uber use electric vehicles. The electric-vehicle mandate was one step under consideration to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of the...
Uber was ordered last Friday by a Colombian judge to stop securing business in their country via its popular ride-hailing app, according to a report from Reuters. The country’s Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC) said Uber, with 2.3 active users and roughly 88,000 driver...
Uber and Lyft are organizing and pushing back against a California law that takes effect on Jan. 1 and would force them to classify their drivers as employees rather than independent contractors, a move that would compel the companies to provide things like a minimum...
A German court on Thursday (Dec. 19) banished Uber from running its ride-hailing service in Germany because the company doesn’t have the right licensing, Reuters reported. Uber is in seven German cities — including Frankfurt, Berlin and Munich — and taps car rental agencies and...
Uber is planning to ring in 2020 with increased investment in electric bikes and scooters, with an emphasis on Europe, CNBC reported on Monday (Dec. 16). Although Uber has said it will be profitable by 2021, shareholders could balk at the ridesharing giant putting money...
