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...After starting out as a competitor to traditional taxis and high-end limos, Uber has gradually added more features to its app, from Eats restaurant and grocery deliveries to bikes and scooters....
...A new branch on the Uber family tree Rides Uber Black/Lux/Exec — the original limo service (2010) UberX — the lower-cost ride-sharing model that created a multibillion-dollar company (2012) Uber Pool —...
...“You know, guys like the limo driver to the airport . . . They have no idea what they are doing.”...
...The ban applies to Uber’s on-demand limo services such as Black but not its Eats food delivery, which operates in several Italian cities.* The competition complaint arose because Uber’s drivers do not have...
...one of a series of contentious issues to flare up at the company over the past month, including allegations of sexual harassment to an embarrassing video of chief executive Travis Kalanick arguing with a limo...
...Lounge in the back of a limo with some chief executives, on the other hand, and they will enthuse about how new technologies are transforming corporate productivity....
...Letter in response to this article: Funeral parlour’s limos took the high-rollers out on the town by night / From Ira Sohn...
...unanimously approved a new law, entitled “Giving Drivers a Voice”, aimed at “levelling the bargaining power” between drivers and the operators of app-enabled transport services, as well as traditional taxis and limos...
...At the rate cash is being thrown at this market, it can’t be long before it’s cheaper just to give the entire population a chauffeur-driven limo and be done with it....
...One reason for the discrepancy is that Uber offers a wider range of options and price points, from luxury limo or regular taxi to ride-sharing, whereas Lyft offers just two tiers for its lower-cost ride-sharing...
...Led by chief executive Travis Kalanick, Uber connects passengers with drivers of luxury limos, taxis and regular cars, taking a slice of every transaction without the overhead of owning its own vehicles....
...That classification of Uber’s service, which can hail professional limos or part-time “ride-sharing” drivers but does not employ either directly, is a familiar challenge to Mr Owens – and often trickier...
...During a strike by French cab drivers who are protesting against the rise of what are locally called “voitures de tourisme avec chauffeurs”, several drivers and limos who crossed the picket line were attacked...
...Since then, Uber has rapidly evolved from a private, invitation-only limo service for a small group of friends into one of Silicon Valley’s hottest – and most controversial – companies....
...Uber was given a rough ride by some customers after last New Year’s Eve, when they awoke not only with sore heads but lighter (digital) wallets due to the limo- and taxi-hire service’s “surge pricing”....
...“One group took a limo 75 miles, which cost $500. American paid. That is not something airlines normally do.” How do I join? “Most of these programmes are invitation-only,” says Mr Petersen....
...The backings followed Mr Aboul Fotouh’s endorsement at the weekend by the Salafist Call, a conservative Islamist proselytising group, and its affiliated Nour party, which won a quarter of the nation’s votes...
...A TV shows a limo sweeping up the Mall, as Huw Edwards narrates....
...Speaking in Sony’s Madison Avenue tower before standing down to be succeeded by Doug Morris, Universal Music’s chairman, he says his satisfaction came from changing a free-spending “stretch-limo culture”...
...“We don’t want to have compromises because these compromises are against us,” said Nour, a student in Tahrir Square. “They are turning the tables around, they are playing with words.”...
...She called me, sobbing, and I got a doctor I know to see her, and then got my secretary to go pick her up in a limo and take her over to see him, and she’s alive and well today,” he says....
...LiMo could do with a little of the limelight....
...Nour Beyhum, previously head of crude oil and options at Icap Energy, would develop an over-the-counter crude oil and refined products broking business based in London....
...The phone is a showcase for the Access Linux Platform, an implementation of the LiMo standard, which is a rival version of Linux for mobiles to Google’s Android....
...leading open-source mobile platforms: Symbian, the Open Handset Alliance (Android), and LiMo....
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