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You're not seeing things. Ghost kitchens are popping up across Edmonton | CBC News
Ghost kitchens that prepare food exclusively for food delivery app orders are popping up in parking lots and storefronts across Edmonton.
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Senator urges Uber, Lyft, Instacart and others to offer gig workers financial security in light of COVID-19 concerns
While some gig economy companies have already taken steps to try to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among its workers, Sen. Mark Warner (VA) is encouraging them to go further and consider ensuring workers don’t face financial consequences as a result of the virus.
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Ride-Hailing Isn’t Really Green
Uber and Lyft have consumed a vast amount of attention since they arrived a decade ago. But in many ways, we’re just beginning to understand what ride-hailing is doing. A growing cache of research by academics and policymakers points to a host of negative impacts associated with the explosive popularity of on-demand rides, including increased traffic congestion, declines in public transit ridership and upticks in traffic fatalities.
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DoorDash’s anti-worker tactics just backfired spectacularly
DoorDash made its delivery workers sign away their right to sue if a legal dispute arises between a worker and the company. Instead, disputes would be resolved by a privatized arbitration system that tends to favor corporate parties. If a decision handed down Monday by a federal district judge stands, the tactic just backfired spectacularly for DoorDash.
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Colombia Orders Uber To Halt Services
Colombia Orders Uber To Halt Services
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China’s ridesharing giant DiDi makes Uber look like a driver sweat shop
Chinese drivers are earning well above average income while Aussie Uber drivers can’t make minimum wage. Marcus Reubenstein reports.
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Uber and Hyundai collaborate to develop flying taxis
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas this past week, Uber and Hyundai revealed a full-scale model for an electric flying vehicle that they say customers will be able to summon through Uber’s app in future.
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Uber stops upfront ride pricing in response to California worker law
Uber Technologies Inc on Wednesday informed its California customers that it wou...
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Uber is getting kicked out of Colombia
Uber had more than 2.3 million users and worked with 88,000 drivers in Colombia.
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Uber’s first ever safety report discloses 3,045 sexual assaults and nine murders in the US last year
Uber has for the first time in its history released a comprehensive safety report about its rides in the US spanning the full length of 2018 and part of 2017. The report discloses that 3,045 sexual assaults occurred during Uber trips last year. Additionally, Uber says nine people were murdered during Uber rides and 58 people died in auto-related crashes. The numbers represent the first set of publicly available data regarding the safety of Uber’s ride-hailing platform and how it compares to national US averages.
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Uber just lost its license to operate in London thanks to fraudulent drivers
Uber has lost its license to operate in London, a major blow given that the UK capital with some 3.5 million users is one of the ride-hailing app's biggest markets globally. The city's regulator, Transport for London, said it had identified a "pattern of failures" by the service that put passengers' safety at risk and was refusing to renew Uber's license, which expires Monday.
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Uber will start audio-recording rides as a safety measure
Riders and passengers won’t be able to access the recordings
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Uber plans to start audio-recording rides in the U.S. for safety
Uber is launching an audio recording pilot in Latin America. The ride-hailing giant said it is trying to bring the feature to the U.S., but that may prove complicated.
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Uber’s Self-Driving Car Didn’t Know Pedestrians Could Jaywalk
The National Transportation Safety Board releases hundreds of pages related to the 2018 crash in Tempe, Arizona, that killed Elaine Herzberg.
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Uber Posts $1.2 Billion Loss as Growth Improves
The ride-hailing company’s third-quarter loss was not as wide as the record $5.2 billion in the second quarter.
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Uber: The ride-hailing app that says it has ‘zero’ drivers
Uber raised eyebrows last month when its chief lawyer asserted that “drivers’ work is outside the usual course of Uber’s business” in a call laying out the company’s resistance to a California bill that would alter the employment status of many gig workers.
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Uber and Lyft are suing New York City after it limited the length of time drivers can cruise without passengers
Lyft, following its rival Uber's move, has sued New York City seeking to nullify a new rule limiting the time its drivers are allowed to spend cruising in Manhattan without passengers, the company said on Saturday. The lawsuit, filed by the San Francisco-based ride-hail company on Friday, argues that the cruising rule is arbitrary and threatens to shift business away from ride-hailing companies like Lyft in favor of taxis.
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Uber and Lyft Stocks Hit Record Low
It’s been a year for tech IPOs. Between less-than-stellar debuts for popular companies like Uber and SmileDirectClub, and WeWork’s IPO being shelved, there’s been a lot to write about. Today, both Uber and Lyft’s stocks reached their lowest prices since they began trading earlier this year. Uber’s stock hit a low of $28.65 before closing at $29.15, while Lyft hit $38.68 and closed at $39.57.
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For too long Lyft and Uber have abused drivers like me. Not any more.
A new California law will finally give thousands of misclassified workers the rights and protections that everyone deserves
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'An app my cat could have written': Larry Ellison says Uber's business model is 'almost worthless'
The billionaire entrepreneur Larry Ellison, who cofounded Oracle, didn't mince words when it came to Uber and its cohort of ultravaluable tech companies, according to a new report in Barron's. The financial magazine reported Friday that the 75-year-old hosted a small cohort of entrepreneurs at his home in a posh neighborhood of San Francisco, where he spent an hour answering questions about topics as varied as the gig economy, WeWork, and Tesla.
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