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Liberal Austin Prompts Uber And Lyft To Suspend Service
Where are the Libertarians when you need them? Austin voters failed to approve Proposition 1, a proposal supported by Uber and Lyft which would have let the companies self-regulate...
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Uber Offers Adds Deals To The App
Uber announced via TechCrunch that its app users will soon be presented with an Uber Offers option that will give users...
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Shopify Adds Sales Channels To Help You Sell From More Places
A lot of businesses are about to have a lot more ways to sell their products with Shopify. The company announced that it is giving developers tools to build new sales channels to p...
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Google Maps Gets Ride Services Tab, Includes Uber
Google announced that it's adding a ride services tab to Google Maps on mobile. This swill exist alongside car, transit, walking, and biking options that were already there. Th...
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Facebook Messenger Gets Lyft Integration
In December, Facebook announced a feature for Messenger that lets users request a ride fro Uber. Lyft announced today that it now provides Facebook Messenger integration. The c...
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Groupon Celebrates A Billion Deals With Stat-Heavy Infographic
Groupon just announced that it recently sold its billionth Groupon, which it says puts it in the "the same elite company as Apple, McDonalds, Uber, The Beatles and Elvis, among oth...
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Uber Driver Said He Was “Just Tired” After Fare Asked If He Was The Shooter
Uber driver Jason Dalton reportedly told a passenger that he was "just tired" when the man jokingly asked whether he was the shooter who had gone on a rampage in Kalamazoo, Michiga...
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“Harry Potter” Author J.K. Rowling Clarifies Release of Script, Not New Novel
Harry Potter fans, beware. There isn't a new Harry Potter novel coming out this summer. The internet lit up earlier this week when the publisher announced the...
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Amazon Echo Gets Uber Integration
As Amazon prepares to put its Echo device in front of America's collective face, it appears to be getting some more bells and whistles that will make it appealing to more people....
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Ride-hailing company Lyft Inc. said Monday it’s partnering with General Motors Co.
With the investment, Lyft is much smaller than Uber, the giant of the ride-hailing space.Here are so...
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Uber Driver Sues Former Taco Bell Exec over Brutal Attack Gone Viral
The Uber driver that posted shocking video of a passenger attacking him over...
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Uber Rapist Given Life in Prison in India
An Indian Uber Driver, who was convicted of rape while endangering the life of a woman, kidnapping, and criminal intimidation last month, has been given a sentence of life in priso...
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Uber Driver Records Drunk Passenger’s Brutal Attack
We've reported on plenty of instances of Uber drivers attacking, kidnapping, and raping passengers. Here's some shocking video from the other side – a drunk passenger brutally atta...
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Amazon Flex Pays You to Deliver Packages
If you're sick of carting people around as an Uber driver, Amazon is now offering to pay you to deliver packages. Amazon Flex, a mysterio...
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Uber Isn’t the Only One Getting Sued over the ‘Employee or Contractor’ Issue
With the rapid growth of the so-called 'sharing economy', one of the biggest issues has been whether or not workers for services like Uber and Lyft are employees of contractors....
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