Category archives: Uber

The latest fundraising comes with China’s top ride-hailing company locked in a struggle to fend off its global rival’s march into China.

The companies suspended services in the city on May 9, two days after residents voted to keep the city’s law requiring Uber and Lyft, just like taxi companies, to conduct fingerprint-based background checks of their drivers.

A group representing 5,000 Uber Technologies Inc. drivers in New York City filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing the ride-share company of depriving drivers of various employment protections by misclassifying them as independent contractors.

In a written statement, Uber co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick called the investment a “vote of confidence in our business.”

Researchers have correlated the rise of ridesharing services with a decline in fatal crashes and disorderly conduct on the roads.

There has been a wave of high-profile partnerships between carmakers and ride-sharing services.

Uber’s and Lyft’s political loss on an important proposition in Austin provides marketers important insight on towing the line between personalization and invasion.

The company will join with the International Association of Machinists to launch an independent guild to represent drivers in the city.

More than 1,000 Uber drivers signed membership cards with the association, known as the Amalgamated Local of Livery Employees in Solidarity.

Kalanick also announced Arianna Huffington, founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, is joining Uber’s board of directors.