Uber Eats and Hasbro will deliver free toys and games to your door this half term
Keeping kids entertained over half term is tough, especially during lockdown when they’re stuck inside. To help. Uber Eats and Hasbro will be delivering free board games and toys to hundreds of doors across the UK over half term. Parents can choose from four board games and two Play-Doh sets, which will be delivered at […]
Forget DoorDash, Buy Uber Instead
There was a lot of excitement leading up to the DoorDash (NYSE:DASH) IPO in December. But all that excitement delivered an unappetizing share price. The volatile DoorDash stock trades around $210 as of this writing, giving it a valuation of $67 billion. The company has been growing rapidly as more consumers rely on the convenience […]
Uber Gets UberCheats Pulled From Google
A tool that helped Uber drivers determine whether their pay was calculated fairly has been removed from the Chrome Web Store. UberCheats creator Armin Samii said the corporation claimed his extension violated the Uber trademark. The ride-hailing/food delivery service has landed in hot water before for allegedly fleecing workers. In 2017, Uber admitted to underpaying […]
Las Vegas uber luxury market sets record in 2020 despite pandemic
Las Vegas and Southern Nevada has not only blown away records on its luxury market for 2020 that are up 38 percent for $1 million and above, but the uber-luxury market of $4 million-plus has hit heights never seen before in the valley and doubled its performance from 2019. And it’s all happening during a […]
Battle Over Rideshare Worker Classification Continues: New York Supreme Court Holds Uber Drivers Are Employees, Entitled to Unemployment Insurance
In yet another decision concerning gig economy businesses, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department upheld a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board (the “Board”), which held that Uber exercised sufficient control over its drivers to qualify as their employer. Accordingly, it found Uber to be liable for unemployment insurance contributions […]
Amazon, Disney, and Uber reveal remote interviewing and hiring processes
Among the many challenges the enterprise tackled last year during the pandemic-imposed upheaval, the most odious (business-wise) was the rapid shift to remote work. Specifically, human resources departments had talent to contend with, as they dealt with recruiting, interviewing, hiring, firing, on-boarding, consulting, and much more. The tech-oriented HR firm Talview conducted a recent survey […]
The Race to Tackling Transportation Emissions by Electrifying Ridehailing Fleets
A new insight brief calls for cross-sector collaboration between transportation network companies, policymakers, utilities and key cities’ stakeholders to align on ridehailing electrification and accelerate toward ambitious transportation-sector climate goals. Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), in collaboration with General Motors, has released an insight brief that reveals why the electrification of transportation network companies (TNCs), such […]
Uber’s Shrinking Ambitions
Uber never wanted to be just a rideshare company. To hear the company tell it, revolutionizing the taxi market was only the beginning. Travis Kalanick always thought the future had to look like cities full of self-driving Ubers. He said in 2016 that, “If we weren’t part of the autonomy thing? Then the future passes us by, […]
Google Maps is getting better ride share integration, crosswalk markers, and building numbers
Google Maps is an invaluable tool when you want to get around a city, and even if some additions to the service are questionable at best, it generally only improves with each update. That’s also true for the latest beta, version 10.56.0. It adds an option for more accurate fee estimates for ride services. We’ve […]
Uber Is Looking To Sell Its Self-Driving Technology
Uber is looking to sell its self-driving technology division known as Uber Advanced Technology Group, according to media reports. Citing three people familiar with the matter, TechCrunch reported last week that Uber is in talks to sell the Uber ATG division to Aurora Innovation, a much smaller rival in the self-driving technology space. Uber ATG […]