On Tuesday (May 21), the California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging a ballot measure known as Proposition 22. The measure, which was approved by nearly 60% of voters in California in November 2020, allows app-based services such as Uber and Lyft to classify drivers in...
Uber is reportedly facing a $312 million lawsuit from drivers of London’s black cabs. That suit, according to a Bloomberg news report Thursday (May 2), was filed by more than 10,800 cabbies and accuses the tech giant’s ride hailing operation of operating in Great Britain’s largest city...
Following offerings aimed at young drivers, Uber is now reaching out to even younger passengers. More to the point, the parents of those young passengers, with a new service called Uber Car Seat, announced Tuesday (March 26) for customers in America’s two largest cities. “Now available in New...
Global mobility and urban services platform inDrive’s financing arrangement with General Catalyst has been expanded to $300 million. The company has secured an additional $150 million from General Catalyst, which joins the initial $150 million it secured in 2023, inDrive said in a Thursday (March 14) press release. InDrive will use...
July 06, 2021
In what appears to be an increasingly common show of might, Chinese government regulators have again clamped down domestically on a high-profile, publicly-traded company, despite its prominent name recognition and deep roster of foreign investors. The weekend move by the Cyberspace Administration of China that ordered local app-store operators to remove the rideshare giant DiDi Global […]
July 25, 2024
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday (July 25) that gig workers can be classified as independent contractors, ending a long legal battle in the state. The court’s ruling upheld a lower-court decision that Proposition 22, a 2020 ballot measure that allowed companies to classify drivers as gig workers, was constitutional, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported […]
May 21, 2024
On Tuesday (May 21), the California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging a ballot measure known as Proposition 22. The measure, which was approved by nearly...
May 02, 2024
Uber is reportedly facing a $312 million lawsuit from drivers of London’s black cabs. That suit, according to a Bloomberg news report Thursday (May 2), was filed by more than 10,800 cabbies...
March 26, 2024
Following offerings aimed at young drivers, Uber is now reaching out to even younger passengers. More to the point, the parents of those young passengers, with a new service called Uber Car Seat,...
