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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.

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Google Wallet Grabs A “Lyft”
Google Wallet Grabs A “Lyft”
March 18, 2015  |  News

After Apple Pay and Paypal, Lyft has now announced Google Wallet’s integration to its ride-sharing app. With the integration, Lyft riders can now pay via...

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Bubble Warnings Coming From SXSW
Bubble Warnings Coming From SXSW
March 16, 2015  |  Merchant Innovation

All of the coolest kids in tech, music and movies were gathered in Austin to meet, greet, network and share a few grim prophesies of...

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Lyft Gets $300M Investment From Rakuten
Lyft Gets $300M Investment From Rakuten
March 13, 2015  |  News

Lyft has snagged a $300 million investment from Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten in a funding round that gives the ride-sharing company a $2.5 billion valuation,...

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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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