Tag: Uber

Magazine - Business

No cost advantage for robotaxis

James Langford · May 31, 2019 12:00 am

A customer uses the Uber Technologies Inc. Uber X smartphone app as skyscrapers stand in the 'Mainhattan' financial district beyond in Frankfurt, Germany, on Friday, April 12, 2019.

Uber banning customers based on poor ratings

John Gage · May 29, 2019 6:30 pm

To protect their business from the disruption they pioneered, Uber and Lyft are now making the same arguments about safety and regulation that they used to rail against. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Alleged Somali war criminal has been driving for Uber, Lyft in Virginia

Zach Halaschak · May 14, 2019 11:06 pm

The statue of Fearless Girl stands in front of the New York Stock Exchange before Uber, the world's largest ride-hailing service, holds its initial public offering, Friday, May 10, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Why I wouldn’t panic about Uber’s lackluster IPO

Tiana Lowe Doescher · May 14, 2019 1:44 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, an Amazon.com package is prepared for shipment by a United Parcel Service (UPS) driver in Palo Alto, Calif. States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that the Senate advanced on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Magazine - Business

Ride-share drivers run up debt to keep jobs in Uber ‘casino’

James Langford · May 10, 2019 4:00 am

Independent presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during the We the People Membership Summit, featuring the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, at the Warner Theater, in Washington, Monday, April 1, 2019.

But Bernie needs a Lyft: Campaign expensed $1000 in rides while Sanders protested driver wages

Joseph Simonson · May 8, 2019 4:12 pm

Uber drivers protest in New York's financial district, Wednesday, May 8, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Why the Lyft-Uber strike will likely fizzle

Tom Rogan · May 8, 2019 2:56 pm

Do not trust Lyft or Uber to get you to hospital during the early morning hours. At least not in a timely fashion. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Uber, Lyft drivers stage nationwide strike for higher pay

James Langford · May 7, 2019 5:49 pm

The logos of Airbnb Inc. sit on banners displayed outside a media event in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Monday, July 27, 2015.

Beltway Confidential

The rise of the sharing economy and the decline of inflation

Bruce Yandle · May 3, 2019 4:06 pm

A woman in a black coat is getting inside of a Uber.

Rape victims claim Uber failed to warn them of attackers posing as drivers

Melissa Quinn · April 11, 2019 7:05 pm

Though Uber is a great example of how technology is changing the ways that people live and work, the economic trends that enable the sharing economy extend far beyond Uber. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Deadly Uber mix-up prompts safety push from ride-share users

James Langford · April 7, 2019 4:00 am

Passengers wait to board subway train at the Naval Yard-Ballpark Metro Station, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, part of the public transit network for Washington.

Privatize WMATA to end Metro’s existential crisis

Carol Park · April 3, 2019 4:00 am