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...The legal costs included Uber agreeing to pay $178mn to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by taxi drivers in Australia....
...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....
...“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....
...“This would be among the largest failures of a credit union ever,” said Keith Leggett, a former senior economist at the American Bankers Association. “It would be very costly....
...One London cabbie has just earned the right to bore passengers as follows: “I had this American geezer in the back of the cab. Took him to the shops to have a look at getting Sky....
...The London cab driver asked by an American passenger what he thought of the UK pay-television market could not have known that his answer might potentially sway a set of takeover deals worth tens of billions...
...Mr Murdoch isn’t entirely new to environmentally friendly cars, while he was running BSkyB, the company transferred its taxi account to Green Tomato, a “green” cab company in an effort to lower its greenhouse...
...Victor Liuzzi, a former cab driver, says he likes driving for Uber because he can make twice as much as he did in a taxi....
...“When the taxi cab industry launched an app, did that make them Uber? It is very hard to copy the value of IEX, ie the trust we have built with investors.”...
...Mounting taxi losses at Melrose Credit Union, which provides savings accounts, debit cards and mortgages to the public as well as loans to cab owners, have pushed its capital beneath required levels....
...It predicts that established couriers will be just as vulnerable to Uber’s app-based activities as the UK’s black cab trade, which to date has had at least 500 taxis disappear from London’s 25,000-strong...
...Cab drivers in London are, like lawyers, highly trained; mastering “The Knowledge”, the layout of the city’s streets, takes several years....
...This summer, a bizarre split emerged in the Hamptons, the sandy peninsula close to New York so beloved by the American elite....
...“As many as one-third of American workers are participating in some aspect of the contingent workforce, and we have a responsibility to provide clarity and predictability instead of allowing inconsistency...
...These provide executive limousines for companies and radio cabs for people who do not want to pay the taxi fare....
...Charlotte Douglas airport in North Carolina permits only three cab companies to carry passengers on its premises: this seems like a bar to competition, putting Uber at a disadvantage....
...This war chest allows it to slash fares as part of its attritional battle to win market share from rival apps and incumbent cab services....
...In 1978 a protest by cab drivers brought central Dublin to a halt. The Irish government responded by agreeing to freeze the number of taxis on the streets of the city....
...Spiders loaf at taxi ranks, waiting for radio dispatch; these boorish men do the airport run and have arrangements with fancy hotels....
...They follow the designers of Hailo – the taxi-booking smartphone app adopted by about half of London’s 23,000 black cab drivers....
...Jay Bregman, chief executive of Hailo, a British rival taxi-ordering app that uses black cabs in London, said European companies were equally keen to grow abroad....
...A judge in Regina v....
...In recent weeks another CAC 40 heavyweight has come under siege, this time from Guy Wyser-Pratte, an American activist investor and former marine....
...(When in Shanghai, Mr Li is chauffeured around in a white London cab.) Associates say that he dreams big and worries about execution later – but agree that his dreams have a habit of coming true....
...I will even pay for the taxi to take him to the studio,” Cameron declared in 2007 while rumours raged that Brown was about to call an election. “In fact, I’ll even drive the cab....
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