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...(A segment showing him entering a limousine seconds before it blew up left many believing McMahon had actually been inside.)...
...On Thursday, the ride-hailing app and the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission announced that taxi cab drivers can soon be called through the Uber app....
...The NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC) in 2018 capped the number of Uber and Lyft vehicles that could operate in the city in response to rising congestion and concerns about drivers’ wages....
...Juno sued the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission in the hope of delaying the law to no avail. So much for being driver-friendly....
...Lyft alleges it will be put at a disadvantage compared with its larger rival Uber because of the way New York’s Taxi and Limousine Commission plans to implement the new wage floor....
...What began as a high-end limousine service in San Francisco is now a regular habit for more than 100m people worldwide....
...The council approved a 12-month freeze on new for-hire licences and commissioned a study by the Taxi and Limousine Commission of how app-based services, such as Uber and Lyft, affect traffic congestion and...
...Existing ride-hailing services for about 6,500 limousines in the emirate, which is dominated by Careem and Uber, would continue as normal, the regulator said....
...The Taxi and Limousine Commission has demanded that Mr Cohen sell the medallions by September 10, as the agency prohibits convicted felons from owning them....
...When I arrived in Silicon Valley in 2012, Uber was used only for hiring black limousines. Venture capitalists were more concerned with photo-sharing apps than ride-hailing....
...There is a way for elites to live in a city without having to interact with people; you can come and go in limousines; you can come and go to your penthouse by helicopter....
...The tipping point also follows regulatory pressure in New York, where the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission had been weighing whether to force ride-hailing services such as Uber to allow gratuities....
...Perhaps little better could be expected from an ambitious group of hard-partying, macho managers who often used Uber limousines on their own nights out....
...Separately, in March, Uber paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in refunds to Philadelphia limousine drivers, after it did not pass through a service fee....
...Uber’s local competitor, Careem, in October signed a deal with the RTA to bring the emirate’s almost 10,000 taxis onto the Dubai-based app’s platform, which – like Uber – already offered 4,700 luxury limousines...
...Allan Fromberg, deputy commissioner at New York’s Taxi and Limousine Commission, points out that the additional data are already required from yellow cabs and are necessary for the commission to make sure...
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...Many UAE-based drivers, who generally operate on limousine or general transport licences, often work for both Uber and Careem....
...To cut costs, for instance, he scrapped bonuses, but also forbade staff from using cover sheets on faxes (this was the early 1990s, remember), told them to take taxis not limousines, and started charging...
...South Korean laws to protect taxi drivers mean that limousine services can only be used by specified groups such as disabled people, foreigners and government officials....
...The article argues that the company is more genuinely disruptive in its attack on the lower end of the limousine market through its “UberSELECT” service....
...Uber started out with an upmarket limousine service, but the insurgent ride-hailing group has recently been moving in an altogether different direction: carpooling....
...Matthew Daus, former chairman of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission, which has clashed with Uber, said ride-hailing companies faced “30 or 40” lawsuits around the US alleging anti-competitive...
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...“They still pronounce it ‘You-ber’,” he pointed out. What is needed is a changed attitude and approach to regulation of such industries that allows for innovation while protecting against abuse....
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