Articles tagged “uber”

Uber sure is getting around and has been aggressive about notching a bunch of partnerships.

Rental cars, trains, and taxis are present for their customers on social, but it needs to step up the pace.

Curb, the app formerly known as Taxi Magic, wants to kick all the disruptors to the curb, and believes that partnering with "incumbent" fleets is the key to its growth.

If there's one combined lesson travel companies can take from Uber it's this: Make the experience seamless.

Uber and Lyft have the advantage that they are travel apps that, like Google Maps, many people use every day. More travel apps should find a way to be relevant more often.

Concur has done an excellent job in recent years thinking about what the business traveler needs to do their job better rather than focusing on putting the travel manager first. This is simply the next logical step.

Lyft's launch was unsustainable in light of the TLC's vow to start seizing drivers' cars and to levy heavy fines. Now the two sides will have to see if they can work out a compromise that would bring Lyft to the streets of New York.

Olacabs hasn't been transparent about the amount of its prior funding rounds.

FedEx is too big to worry about pesky Uber nipping at its heels in the same-day delivery business. Still FedEx CEO Frederick Smith could be downplaying Uber's potential for diversifying beyond its core people-transportation business.

Any irrational exuberance aside, the valuation analyst estimates Uber's valuation at $6 billion, on par with the market cap of Avis Budget Group, and he thinks Uber has a 90% chance of survival.