Tag: uber
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Hertz teams with Uber, Carvana in another shift to EVs
Uber drivers in the U.S. will be able to offer services with Tesla Inc. electric vehicles rented from Hertz Global Holdings Inc. from Nov. 1. Hertz also said it signed up Carvana Co. to sell off rental vehicles it no longer wants. Taken together, the deals represent a trifecta of aggressive and innovative initiatives with…
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Musk says ‘can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin’
Tesla Inc chief Elon Musk said on Wednesday that the provider’s electrical vehicles can now be bought using bitcoin and the option will be accessible outside the United States later this year. “You can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin,” he tweeted Wednesday, including that bitcoin paid to Tesla won’t be converted to conventional currency.The…
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Silicon Valley’s workforce is falling out of love with massive tech campuses. Experts predict what will take its place are networks of satellite offices.
Amazon's office in Boulder, Colorado. Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post through Getty Images The future of the tech office is not clustered in Silicon Valley, specialists advised Business Insider. Rather, tech companies will likely adopt a”hub-and-spoke” version, with satellite offices built across the US. At a post-coronavirus era, employees might have a”remote-first” job schedule, and…
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The Station: The startups edition
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every Saturday in your inbox. Hello and welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the present and future ways people and packages move from Point A to Point B. I’m…
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Uber will acquire food delivery startup Postmates in $2.6 billion all-stock deal, reports say
Uber is utilized to get food delivery startup Postmates at a $2.6 billion all-stock deal, both The New York Times and Bloomberg reported Sunday. Postmates was co-founded by Bastian Lehmann, Sam Street, and Sean Plaice at 2011 and has grown to include a fleet of over 500,000 members and 600,000 retailers across 50 states. Last…
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Daily Crunch: Uber might lose out on acquiring Grubhub
Uber stocks tumble after reports that it will lose out on acquiring Grubhub, Reddit appoints a new board member and Republican senators question the legal protections of large social media platforms. Here’s your Daily Crunch for June 10, 2020. 1. Uber shares tumble 5% as reports indicate it will lose Grubhub deal to European rival…
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Uber promised to pay drivers who couldn’t work because of the coronavirus. But drivers say Uber has been closing their accounts after they seek sick pay, and then ignoring or rejecting their claims. (UBER)
REUTERS/Brian Snyder Uber claimed financial assistance to drivers forced off the road by the coronavirus, although some who seem to fulfill its rigorous eligibility criteria have been not able to get the company to pay them. A number of drivers, all people who have informed Business Insider which Uber had refused or ignored their orders…
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Hailing a driverless ride in a Waymo
Ed Niedermeyer Contributor Share on Twitter Ed Niedermeyer is an author, columnist and co-host of The Autonocast. His book, Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors, premiered in August 2019. “Congrats! This car is yours, with no one up front,” the pop-up telling from the Waymo app reads. “This journey will probably be different. With…
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For Tech Companies Going Public, An Unwanted Side Effect: IPO-Related Lawsuits
When Wall Street welcomed Uber and Lyft into the public markets before this season, it was heralded as a defining moment for an whole generation of technology unicorns that, until recently, had mostly eschewed the rite of passage that’s an initial public offering. However, in the aftermath of their IPOs, both ride-sharing giants have found…
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An autonomous robot EV charger is coming to San Francisco
Chargers these days are intended for individual drivers. Electrify America along with San Francisco-based startup Stable are preparing for the day when people are no more behind the wheel. Electrify America, the thing set up from Volkswagen as a part of its settlement with U.S. regulators across the diesel emissions cheating scandal, is partnering with…