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Uber, WhatsApp announce partnership to launch ride-booking via WhatsApp in India

The first roll out on a pilot basis will take place in the northern city of Lucknow first, and will be expanded to other Indian cities soon

02 Dec 2021 12:48 PM

Uber launched 24x7 ‘Auto Rentals’ service. (AFP Photo)

Uber launches 24x7 auto rentals service in six cities

Uber launched a comprehensive set of safety measures, such as the Go Online Checklist, a mandatory mask policy for both riders and drivers

27 Aug 2020 1:22 PM

Uber auto rental service in now live in Bengaluru and is available in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune. (Photo | uber.com)

You can now hire an Uber auto in Mumbai, Pune and four other cities at an hourly rate

Prices start at Rs 169 for a one-hour/10 km package. You can pick from multiple hourly packages but be prepared to pay hard cash.

26 Aug 2020 6:40 PM

Shortly before the appeals court decision, Lyft said it would suspend its rideshare service in California rather than classify drivers as employees entitled to benefits. “This change would... necessitate an overhaul of the entire business model—it’s not a switch that can be flipped overnight,” Lyft said in a blog post. (Photos | AP/AFP)

Uber, Lyft hold off suspending services in California after court stay on adding drivers to rolls

A judge had originally given Uber and Lyft until Friday to comply with a labour law on the matter, which went into effect this year.

21 Aug 2020 6:23 PM

Chinese consumers—known for eagerly embracing e-commerce, online payments and other digital solutions—are lining up for a spin in DiDi Chuxing’s self-developed autonomous taxis at a Shanghai pilot project launched in June. (Photo | AFP)

China begins testing robotaxis for hire amid race against US tech dominance

Autonomous hired cars are considered ideal for accumulating driving time and the data cache needed for cars to learn and become safe enough.

09 Aug 2020 4:33 PM

Uber’s ride sharing business has faced losses due to the restriction on movement and travel across the world but its food delivery arm is doing well, and is now expanding with the acquisition of Postmates. (Photo | AFP)

Uber expands its US food delivery business with purchase of startup Postmates

Postmates, whose business delivering food, groceries and other goods doubled amid lockdown, was bought for $2.65 billion.

06 Jul 2020 7:13 PM

Uber shuts Mumbai office, services for riders to remain unaffected. (AFP Photo)

Uber takes cost-cutting drive, shuts Mumbai office

In May, Uber had said it is laying off about 600 employees as business has taken a major hit amid COVID-19 pandemic

05 Jul 2020 10:46 AM

A technology analyst said Zoox “has one of the better autonomous driving offerings but is currently suffering from its inability to forecast market readiness and demand for its product.” (Photo | Zoox)

Amazon enters ride-hailing space with purchase of self-driving taxi startup Zoox

Amazon and Zoox will compete with robotaxi offerings from Waymo, Cruise, Uber and Mobileye.

26 Jun 2020 8:40 PM

Uber signals recovery in rides as lockdown restrictions ease

Trip requests are now down about 70% from a year earlier, slightly lesser than April’s 80% drop

04 Jun 2020 11:27 AM

A Google Waymo self-driving car on the road in Mountain View, California, USA. Google, Uber, Tesla and major car makers such as BMW, Toyota, Volswagen as well as several Chinese companies have been investing in technology that eliminates the need for humans to navigate vehicles. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Grendelkhan)

Amazon trucks could soon be self-driven: Ecommerce giant may buy robo-taxi startup Zoox, says WSJ

Zoox was founded in 2014 with a mission to build a “fleet of fully autonomous, battery electric, zero-emission vehicles".

27 May 2020 5:11 PM

Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal, in an email to employees last week, had said the company’s revenues had declined by 95 per cent in the last two months due to coronavirus pandemic. He had also made it clear that the prognosis ahead for the business is “very unclear and uncertain” and the impact of this crisis is “definitely going to be long-drawn for us”.

Do Uber, Ola's massive layoffs indicate they may be driving off the map?

600 staff lose Uber jobs days after Ola laid off 1,400 people. Means cab aggregators, propped up by investors despite losses, won't recover?

26 May 2020 10:56 PM

Uber India cuts 600 jobs amid coronavirus outbreak. (AFP Photo)

Uber India lays off 600 employees

Uber fired a total of 6,700 employees across the world and with this 25% of its global workforce is now out of job

26 May 2020 1:31 PM

The report alleged that major US-based technology firms, including Microsoft, that hire H-1B workers directly had significant shares of their certified H-1B positions assigned as Level 1 or Level 2, the two lowest wage levels in fiscal 2019, both of which are below the local median wage.

Thought H-1B workers had made it? Turns out Google, Microsoft, other tech firms pay them below par

Report says 500,000 migrant workers in firms like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Walmart, Qualcomm and Uber are paid salaries in lowest wage slabs

06 May 2020 3:52 PM

The free and open-source prototype Private Kit app was developed by teams at MIT and Harvard as well as software engineers of Facebook and Uber who worked on it in their free time.

Join efforts to trace the coronavirus route map in your locality by downloading this app

The MIT prototype Private Kit: Safe Paths app works by sharing location data between users, without revealing who the users are.

23 Mar 2020 5:46 PM

Uber and Ola are reported to have lost as much as 80% of rides but the company has not offered any financial assistance to tide over the crisis. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Alexander Torrenegra)

Uber, Lyft suspend shared rides in US, Canada, but not yet in India

Pooled rides show up on the Uber and Ola apps in India even now

18 Mar 2020 5:56 PM

Uber has taken a more cautious approach to testing since one of its self-driving vehicles killed a pedestrian in March 2018.

Uber self-driving cars, with humans in control, to cruise Friday

Uber is operating self-driving cars in autonomous mode with safety drivers behind the wheel.

27 Jan 2020 7:17 AM

Hyundai also unveiled a four-seater aircraft concept called SA-1 which is capable of reaching top speeds of up to 180 miles per hour. (Photo: The verge)

The future is almost here; air taxis from Uber, Hyundai coming soon

Hyundai Motor, Uber join hands to develop shared air taxis.

08 Jan 2020 8:26 AM

Absence of public toilets is one of the biggest issues facing cab drivers, besides pathetic quality of road infrastructure.

Uber, Ola drivers: Crushed by an uncaring govt, insensitive clients

Despite diminishing returns, large number of drivers join, while many leave the service.

29 Dec 2019 1:59 AM

Lawmakers are furious that the Uber paradigm rendered so much of old-world legislation, and power, redundant.

Riding around in the age of Uber

Cab aggregators claim they are losing money, drivers are not earning enough and customers claim they are paying too much.

29 Dec 2019 1:54 AM

Kalanick, who helped found Uber in 2009 and once exerted nearly complete control, stepped down as chief executive in June 2017 under pressure from investors after a string of setbacks.(Photo: AFP)

Brash Uber co-founder Kalanick leaves board to focus on industrial kitchens

He will depart Uber’s board of directors by the end of the year, the company said on Tuesday.

28 Dec 2019 4:02 PM

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