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Use Uber on New Year's Eve at your own risk -- to your wallet. At least the mobile-app car service is warning customers in advance about skyrocketing rates.

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.

Since New York City has one of the best, most well-regulated taxi fleets in world other cities will likely watch what happens today for guidance on their own rules.

It is inevitable that these mobile cab hailing and scheduling apps will become the norm, but the process to reach there has to be followed, instead of the bluster approach that a brash and heavily funded startup like Uber loves.

Foursquare's location guidance seems a lot more reliable than Apple Maps', and this Foursquare add-on improves the Uber iPhone app's customer experience.

It won’t matter if recipients use the credit or another shuns its services as Silicon Valley shoppers will have already boosted Uber’s December profits by becoming trendy gifters.

It may be a leap of faith to park your car at the airport and then rent it out while you travel, but car rental startups are at least making a statement that the standard ways of doing business aren't etched in stone -- and 6-page rental agreements.

Tokyo's taxi system is one of the best in the world and user engagement with smartphones is just as good. It's doubtful Tokyo needs a brash American to teach them how to combine the two.

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.

Uber's adoption of similar rules as taxis for its sedan service is what's tripping it up this time; if it wants to act like a taxi service, it'll have to be licensed. And Uber doesn't like the whole licensing thing.