Folks in cities like Singapore and Sydney are already enjoying Uber’s online private car hire service, but the company doesn’t intend to just stop its expansion in that corner of the globe. According to job postings and newly minted Twitter accoun…
The on-again-off-again status of NYC’s e-hail pilot program is now, well, back on. A New York state court has just lifted a temporary restraining order brought on by the city’s livery cab companies that halted the year-long trial of taxi-hailing a…
Anyone who’s visited Hong Kong within the last few years has probably experienced the city’s thick soupy smog. Sure, things aren’t as bad as they are in Beijing, but pollution from the mainland often wraps the metropolis in a humid haze — and we’…
Just a few days after receiving the nod from New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC), UberTAXI has officially returned to the Big Apple — with some limitations. For starters, automatic fare billing is not yet available, so passengers …
Car service Uber and New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) have had a rocky relationship, as the Commission banned Uber from Gotham’s taxicabs last year. Susequently, the TLC greenlit a trial to test cab hailing apps and after a brie…
Taxi hailing apps have had a rough time getting started in the Big Apple. After the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) put the kibosh on Uber and subsequently blessed e-hailing apps with a 12-month test, the TLC faced a setback of its own:…
New York City’s full-on EV taxi blitz may not come until late this year, but the metropolis is taking its first tentative steps into that electric world as of today: it’s deploying the six Nissan Leaf cabs promised as part of a pilot program. The …
If you hadn’t gathered, Uber’s app-based taxi service isn’t always welcome wherever it goes. The company is tired of that fighting just to maintain its business, so it’s defining its expansion policies through a new white paper. Deployments will occu…
A group of about 30 drivers have parked their cars near Uber’s headquarters in San Francisco and are protesting outside its doors, with plans to strike. The drivers, who aren’t direct Uber employees but rather contractors that work wi…
To launch a taxi or ride-sharing app is to live in constant legal peril. Uber, one of the forerunners in the taxi app business, is slogging through lawsuits in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and other cities — most recently, …
