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...T3 Chuxing, a Nanjing-based online taxi-booking service launched by three of China’s largest state-run automakers including FAW Group, has announced plans to expand to 15 cities, according to an internal...
...“The investors, with the exception of Discovery [Inc, which has a significant stake], they all love Nigel Farage, they regard him as huge, a big, big character....
...For example, “LOL” is “in transition”, no longer a signifier of genuine amusement but instead used to express sarcasm and even passive aggression....
...Express Transindo Utama, the second-largest taxi operator, has fared worse. It fell into the red in 2016 — its first loss since it listed in 2012 — and has yet to recover....
...The automaker also has an agreement with local taxi company Express to supply 150 Conferos. “We even had a customer who gave his baby the name Confero,” said Cindy Cai, vice-president of Wuling....
...Is Uber a taxi company?...
...Multibillion-dollar takeovers have been agreed between US health insurer Cigna and pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts and private equity firm Blackstone and data provider Thomson Reuters....
...“Ceci n’est pas un taxi” argued Uber. Yes it is, replied an Advocate General of the European Court of Justice....
...Food delivery, express parcel services, driverless (and flying) cars — these are all in early stages of development or on the drawing board....
...In order to avoid the label of an unlicensed taxi company, Uber has formed a partnership with Express Transindo Utama, Indonesia’s second-largest cab operator....
...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....
...Protesters also accused Uber of trying to break up an anti-Trump taxi strike at New York’s JFK airport on Saturday, an allegation based on a misunderstanding that nevertheless spread across social media....
...she said of her traffic-clogged taxi journey. Such outbursts are common in Metropolitan Manila when commuters talk about their daily journey to and from work....
..., Taxis Bleus and Taxis Verts....
...Shares in family-run Blue Bird surged as much as 16 per cent on Friday morning after the reported ban ride-hailing apps, while rival taxi operator Express Transindo Utama leapt 33 per cent....
...Facebook Messenger has mimicked many elements of WeChat, the Chinese chat app, which allows its users to do everything from call a taxi to apply for a mortgage....
...Gett will face competition from the likes of US titans Amazon and Google, not to mention smaller companies that offer food and other deliveries in a sector over whose financial viability some analysts express...
...Nor do I have a problem with the taxi drivers. Contrary to myth, I have never found one who does not speak English. The first improvement New York needs is in its hotels....
...Yet in remarks that are a political setback for the US company, he went on to express his sympathy with people who are upset and “have reasons to get angry with UberPop taxi drivers who do not abide by any...
...Transport services such as Uber are threatening the livelihoods of taxi drivers around the world....
...“When I started there was no Heathrow Express — you got three airport jobs a week but now it might be three a year. There was no minicab licence....
...The police also criticised Uber, claiming that the taxi-hailing service did not conduct proper police background checks on the driver....
...Research from Express Scripts, the big US pharmacy management group, showed that more than half a million Americans each consumed at least $50,000 worth of prescription medicines last year, an increase of...
...In Paris, taxi drivers have launched protests against the growth of the service there. These have included slashing the tyres of Uber cars....
...To further its ambitions in the deliveries market, Uber has hired Tom Fallows, the former head of Google Express, a same-day shopping service....
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