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...By 2023, that number had dropped to roughly 6mn daily riders....
...Peter Biskind’s bestselling Easy Riders, Raging Bulls had the first major word on the rise of filmmaking independents in 1970s Hollywood....
...The company’s ten largest markets, which together make up more than three-quarters of its bookings, all saw month-on-month driver growth in August, said Andrew Macdonald, Uber’s head of mobility....
...“We continue to see that when Uber and taxis partner, it’s a win for drivers, riders and the cities we both serve....
...UK Supreme Court rules Deliveroo riders are not employees: After years of legal battles, delivery riders are judged not to be employees....
.../ From Sir Andrew Large, Brecon, Powys, UK...
...It also now expects inflation to stay higher for longer, a view shared by Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey....
...During her time as foreign secretary, Truss was said to have had “a rider” that a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc should always be in the minibar of her hotel room on overseas trips....
...Riders would have “full control” over any ads with sound, Uber said....
...This year’s Tour boasts riders from an impressive 27 countries. Sponsors are correspondingly international....
...With impeccable timing comes the film The Last Rider, which profiles Greg LeMond, a winner from a more innocent age of the Tour, and it is worth a watch, according to the FT film reviewer Leslie Felperin...
...The new flag had a St Andrew’s cross designed in gold and green (symbolic perhaps of hoped-for rebirth) and black (in recognition of the hardships of Jamaica’s slave plantation past)....
...Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson is the FT’s US business editor. Patrick McGee is the FT’s San Francisco correspondent....
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...As a former head of rider growth at Uber and now an investor in several platform companies, Chen has seen how networks work in all their real-life messiness....
...But investment in public transport more than pays for itself, says Andrew Simms, co-director of think-tank New Weather Institute, delivering millions of jobs and stimulating business....
...Avelo Airlines, founded by former United chief financial officer Andrew Levy, will only operate domestically, flying to smaller cities and to secondary airports near larger ones, such as Ogden-Hinckley near...
...It helped that he and his contemporaries worked in the aftermath of Easy Rider (1969), which re-wilded the studio system. Gifted lunatics suddenly had the run of the asylum and its gardens....
...It is not just the employee rights concerns but the governance ones as well,” said Andrew Millington, head of UK equities at Aberdeen Standard Investments, part of the FTSE 100-listed asset manager....
...Have a pleasant weekend, Andrew WhiffinLex writer Best of Lex articles Stripe: a $95bn valuation is perfectly normal for fintechExpect the online payment processing company to focus on new countries and...
...(NEJM, 43m) Spanish lessons Journalist Nick Cohen speaks to Laura Spinney, author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu Of 1918 about the lessons to be had from the greatest public health disaster in history....
...Anything, in fact, that’s inspired by biking’s subculture,” says proprietor Andrew Almond, who launched the business from a London Fields railway arch in 2013, before relocating two years later....
...It already offers riders accident and injury insurance. “Deliveroo offers self-employed work because this gives riders the flexibility they tell us they value above all else,” it said. ...
...andrew.hill@ft.com Twitter: @andrewtghill This article has been amended to clarify the process of rebranding Booz & Co...
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