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Articles tagged “lyft”

Ground Transport

SideCar won’t let a small matter like Austin laws stop its SXSW business

When drivers for SideCar get busted in Austin, they'll be the ones stuck with the fines, not the VC-backed startup. How's that for sharing?

Skift | 11 years ago

Ground Transport

Ride-sharing startup Lyft expands to LA after making deal with California regulators

Regulators are in the process of creating laws that address Lyft and the other ride-sharing startups, which will either give them the validity to blossom or clamp down on their nascent growth.

Skift | 11 years ago

Ride-sharing startup Lyft expands to LA after making deal with California regulators

Ground Transport

San Francisco looks to legitimize ridesharing in a possible win for Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar

The taxi hailing/ridesharing legislation revolution is spreading from D.C. to New York and now back to where it all began. San Francisco will likely change the rules to allow for the new companies or institute a trial run like in New York.

Skift | 12 years ago

San Francisco looks to legitimize ridesharing in a possible win for Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar

Ground Transport

The growing pains of San Francisco’s app-driven amateur car service business

As they strive to make it easier for people to get around and people earn some extra cash, these (paid) sharing services will face their biggest challenge finding success in destinations not densely populated or where taxi and transit systems work well.

Mark Milian, Bloomberg | 12 years ago

The growing pains of San Francisco’s app-driven amateur car service business

Airlines

Mozio launches site to ease flyers’ search for airport transportation

Before sighing in exasperation at news of another travel startup, think back to last time you spent an hour searching the cheapest way to get from an airport to nearby city. Mozio’s utility gives it a shot at success, even if its ultimate goal seems a bit lofty.

Samantha Shankman , Skift | 12 years ago

Mozio launches site to ease flyers’ search for airport transportation

Hotels

From rooms to cars to bikes: How collaborative consumption took over Silicon Valley

The combination of technology that makes these connections popular and users' willingness to share with strangers puts collaborative consumption in a position to change travel and transit in multiple ways.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Analogy for travel startups: Lyft is to car services as Airbnb is to hotels

There’s nothing quite like plastering pink mustaches on cars to get a startup noticed, but Lyft tries to go one step deeper with its efforts to foster relationships during rides. Will users going from point A to B really care?

Skift | 12 years ago