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...Farzad, the property agent, added: “I keep wondering how all this went on for months under the very nose of all relevant organisations....
...Additional reporting by Eung Sea A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on March 12. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Mattel is just as enthusiastic an exploiter as any studio of its brands, which include Hot Wheels, American Girl and Barney....
...An American reader, Micah, writes: Price elasticity for rides was always high (one reason why the taxi industry itself was so fragmented); implication: raising prices across the board will cost Uber lots...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 24, 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Sounds about right for a taxi company. Google’s free cash flow margin? Twenty-two per cent....
...Having disrupted the music industry, books, travel, banking, taxis — you know the list by now — the Valley came for Tinseltown....
...The entrepreneurs behind Joby, Archer and Lilium, are all targeting deployment of their flying taxis between 2023 and 2025....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 28 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...I’d flown to Pristina in Kosovo, then taken a three-hour taxi west, rain turning to snow as we drove....
...The non-profit group submitted eight paid adverts that included hate speech against the minority group, all of which were approved by Facebook....
...Autocab, which struck the deal with Uber in August last year, provides taxi operators with booking and dispatch software and connects drivers with trips via an online marketplace. 3....
...“One of the hypotheses behind this idea of growth for growth’s sake was that this is a winner takes all market, a natural monopoly,” he said....
...The raise cements Hopin’s position as the fastest-growing European tech start-up of all time and one of Europe’s largest private companies....
...“Yes, it has the elements of a taxi dispatch,” said Professor Susan Shaheen, co-director of UC Berkeley’s Transportation Sustainability Research Center. “But it’s a smart dispatch....
...“It’s like Uber trying to disrupt the taxi industry by working with the taxis,” said Michael Arrington, the founder of the TechCrunch news site and now at a $100m cryptocurrency hedge fund....
...Several members of the family, including the twins, became formidable forces in American tech....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 19. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...We will, of course, have to see what the regulators have to say about all that . . ....
...This time the impact is broader and, in a worst-case scenario, could result in a slimmed down version of Dubai Inc....
...(For more on why the taxi business is so exceptionally hard to extract profit from do read Hubert Horan’s magnum opus in American Affairs. ) Hence the focus on pivots....
...“I don’t like that at all,” says Blankfein. “I don’t like assassination by categorisation. I think it’s un-American. I find that destructive and intemperate....
...“Just as no one predicted that one of the major uses of 4G would be a new way of calling taxis, the most important uses for 5G technology are also difficult to predict before it’s actually available,” Dan...
...For two decades the same faithful taxi driver has arrived at Rachel Lord’s north London home at 7am sharp daily to take her to work....
...“The problem with [air-taxis] is there would be zillions of these things flying all over the place. They are going to drop a hubcap and it’s going to guillotine somebody.”...
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