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...Others link it to the decades-old US-Iran feud and the push by some in the regime to prohibit any “luxury” American-developed merchandise....
...“fully driverless” robotaxis in cities including Beijing and Wuhan, but Chinese officials still largely require human drivers to remotely monitor every ride, undermining the economics of a self-driving taxi...
...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...
...Sounds about right for a taxi company. Google’s free cash flow margin? Twenty-two per cent....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 24, 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Having disrupted the music industry, books, travel, banking, taxis — you know the list by now — the Valley came for Tinseltown....
...“With the market poised to grow sevenfold between 2025 and 2035, it’s important for US policymakers and industries to co-operate now to ensure American leadership in this transformative emerging sector,”...
...The key question is whether his car will be a product of European — or more likely of Chinese or American invention. The Internet of (Four) Things 1....
...Grab began its journey in Malaysia first as a ride-hailing platform for taxis and private cars....
...I’d flown to Pristina in Kosovo, then taken a three-hour taxi west, rain turning to snow as we drove....
...American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and aircraft leasing group Avolon have made preliminary commitments to buy up to 1,000 electric air taxis from a British start-up in the biggest sign of a radical shift...
...Critics, including unions and leftwing politicians, have attacked it for providing drivers with an income well below that of traditional taxi drivers....
...Lyft is a one-dimensional company compared to Uber, serving the US market and focusing on taxi services, while its rival is international and is tackling food and grocery deliveries as well....
...Mr Gadowski is also an investor in Grow, a Latin American scooter start-up, and through his Team Europe venture has backed a range of other companies including flying taxi start-up Volocopter....
...Closer to Earth and much greener, Sylvia Pfeifer reports American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and aircraft leasing group Avolon have made preliminary commitments to buy up to 1,000 electric air taxis from...
...That pales in comparison with the 76 per cent of Americans able to connect to 5G and even higher rates in some parts of Asia, such as South Korea where it is 93 per cent, according to Analysys Mason research...
...“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....
...“My first reaction is: so Uber is becoming a taxi system.”...
...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....
...Not only will there be flying taxis in commercial use ferrying people across cities in two to five years, but by 2031 these taxis will be flying without a driver....
...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....
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