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Melbourne, Australia Joins Dallas and Los Angeles as a First Trial City for Uber Air

Melbourne, Australia Joins Dallas and Los Angeles as a First Trial City for Uber Air mobility

Aerial ridesharing service expected to enter field trials in late 2020 or early 2021, with potential commercial launch in 2023. June 11, 2019 04:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Government of Victoria, Australia, today welcomed the announcement that its capital city, Melbourne, will join Dallas and Los Angeles as a first trial city for Uber Air, a transformational aerial

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Uber vs Grab Ride-hailing War Shifts To New Front: Bike-Sharing

More options for first/last mile connectivity. If 2017 was the year when the world realised Softbank may win the global ride-hailing wars, 2018 is when ride-hailing giants collectively opened a new frontier: bike-sharing. The signs were abundant in January. Didi Chuxing said it wants to launch its own bike-sharing platform after an integration with bike-sharing players ofo last year seemed

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Mahindra Uber Announces Partnership to Electrify Ride-sharing in India

Mahindra Uber Announces Partnership to Electrify Ride-sharing in India Electric vehicle ride hailing sustainable urban mobility

Mahindra and Uber Join Hands to Deploy Electric Vehicles in India Aims to build the next generation sustainable solutions in the shared mobility space To leverage traffic patterns and use-case data that helps in decision making on infrastructure requirements to realise India’s EV potential Initiative to be flagged off with hundreds of Mahindra’s electric vehicles in Hyderabad and New Delhi

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Teens are using Ride-sharing And Public Transportation to Get Around

Teens are using Ride-sharing And Public Transportation to Get Around Uber Lyft hailing urban mobility

Transportation accounts for 4.6 percent of teen spending Ride-sharing providing more teens with the freedom that a car used to represent NEW YORK, Nov. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — American teens benefit from a lot of free transportation, including school buses, rides from their parents, riding their bike and walking. But getting around still manages to capture 4.6 percent of all teen

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Volvo Cars to Supply Tens of Thousands of Autonomous Drive Compatible Cars to Uber

Volvo Cars to Supply Tens of Thousands of Autonomous Drive Compatible Cars to Uber autonomous vehicle driverless self driving ride hailing sharing hailing urban mobility

Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, has signed a framework agreement with Uber, the ride-sharing company, to sell tens of thousands of autonomous driving compatible base vehicles between 2019 and 2021. The base vehicles are developed on Volvo Cars’ fully modular, in-house developed Scalable Product Architecture (SPA). SPA is one of the most advanced car architectures in the world and

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Indonesia-based KinerjaPay Announces Partnership with Uber

Indonesia-based KinerjaPay Announces Partnership with Uber ride sharing hailing e-hailing urban mobility

Joint Promotion with Uber Is Expected To Drive New Users and Increase Revenues JAKARTA, Indonesia, October 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — KinerjaPay Corp., (OTCQB: KPAY), a digital payment and eCommerce platform, (KinerjaPay) today announced its partnership with Uber Technologies, Inc., (Uber) the global smartphone-enabled ride-hailing service. Indonesia Ride-Hailing Growth Rate Since its launch in 2012, Uber has become the most recognized

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Uber’s License Woes with Transport for London

Uber ride-sharing License Woes with Transport for London new urban mobility plan

Comment by Frost & Sullivan’s Shwetha Surender, Industry Principal, Mobility Group   LONDON, Sept. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Exciting times in the world of mobility, with TfL’s bold move last week. TfL’s decision to strip Uber of its license came as a surprise to the market. Their main contention was: the lack of safety norms; in particular, insufficient background checks that Uber employs with

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P2P Ride-sharing Startup Arcade City Launches Mobile App in the Philippines

P2P Ride-sharing Startup Arcade City Launches Mobile App in the Philippines ASEAN Southeast Asia ride-hailing

Driver-owned company expands its successful peer-to-peer ride-sharing model to fill the void left by Uber   AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Ride-sharing company Arcade City launched its mobile app this month to the Apple and Android app stores, now available everywhere in the Philippines.   Filling Uber’s Void Arcade City is recruiting and activating drivers same-day all across the Philippines to provide service

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Tech Startup Tapping into Ride-sharing Advertising Space

RidePlay TV Tech Company Tapping into Ride-sharing ride-hailing Advertising Space Uber Lyft

Ride-sharing tech firm promises a nationwide play for the right investor A group of San Diego tech entrepreneurs believe with the right partner, their platform will be able to quickly monetise the ride-sharing advertising space.   The Back Seat Advertisement With proven technology, and beta program complete, RIDEPLAY tv is now servicing advertisers and paying ride-sharing drivers by the mile.  The fully functional platform is equipped

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Wowora App Takes On Ride-Hailing Giants in Malaysia’s Second-tier Cities

Wowora taxi hailing App Takes On Ride-Hailing Giants Uber Grab in Malaysia's Second-tier Cities Langkawi Sabah Sarawak Kuching Kota Kinabalu

Price Transparency Ipoh-based taxi hailing app Wowora is looking to compete with ride-hailing giants Uber and Grab in Malaysia’s fringe markets, banking on fixed price rates to attract passengers who may be turned off by the ride-hailing companies’ surge pricing mechanism. According to its website, Wowora follows the taxi rate in each state it operates in and does not seem

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