Lyft is competing aggressively with Uber, which recently filed to raise $2.1 billion at a $62.5 billion valuation. Lyft reportedly wants to raise another billion dollars, a round that would set the company's value at about $4.5 billion.
Lyft, which makes a smartphone app that allows passengers to summon a ride, currently operates in...
Driving with Uber means more than just being on the road. From choosing when and where to drive, to tracking progress toward goals—our driver-partners make choices at every turn. That’s why we’re excited to announce the next generation of the Uber Partner app, designed to give drivers more information so Uber works better for...
CabbyGo, the developer of the world's first "Taxi" app that puts the power in the hands of the people by allowing riders to select their driver based on a variety of qualities, such as price, distance from arrival, type of vehicle and service reputation, announced their launch in Miami, Florida.
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Just over a year ago we launched Uber for Business, our platform dedicated to business travel. The company built Uber for Business from the ground up — creating tools for administrators, adding integrations that improve the employee travel experience, and making sure riding with Uber is easy and affordable across 300 cities.
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Though on-demand taxi service Uber may have cornered the market for last minute, affordable rides, for those who prefer a bit more control over their car service, Opoli is a new transportation network based in Los Angeles, which lets users choose their own price.
Opoli is a smartphone, desktop and tablet app, which enables customers...
Ride-hailing companies Uber Technologies and Lyft have secured approval to soon pick and drop passengers at the Los Angeles International Airport and the McCarran International Airport in the US.
The 9-6 vote by the Los Angeles City Council makes Los Angeles airport the largest air hub to implement the service.
Under the plan, the...
How much will it cost if you are take an Uber taxi from point A to point B? Uber’s mobile app has a built-in fare estimator but you can now also Twitter to calculate the fare. Write your query in plain English (see example), send it to @WhatTheFare and the bot will let you know the approximate fare for your ride in less than a...
Taxi booking app Uber has opened up a new front in its bid to turn the taxi industry on its head by buying no less than half a million driverless cars to further automise journeys, according to Tesla.
The American manufacturer aims to be among the first to bring driverless vehicles to market, pencilling in a delivery date of 2020,...
Uber has announced that it is acquiring assets from Microsoft Bing, including around 100 data-collection engineers focused on the Bings's image collection activities.
According to the Techcrunch.com, both companies confirmed the transaction but neither named the terms of the agreement. Also, both firms declined to elaborate on what...
Commerce is changing in America.
What is emerging, what is growing is a third wave – services that connect buyers and sellers. There are Uber and Lyft and Sidecar in the taxi space, and AirBnB, which brings together short-term renters and short-term rentees.
In the travel business, Kayak, Orbitz, Expedia and others have now grown...