Sentences with phrase «as ride sharing»

Uber also occupies a sizeable chunk of the legal horizon, as ride sharing quickly eclipses traditional taxi services.

Transportation is on the cusp of a major transition, with more efficient cars and trucks, new technologies such as electric vehicles and zero - emission buses, services such as ride sharing, and a renewed emphasis from planners on creating accessible, livable, walkable, and bikeable communities.

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T. Rowe Price cut valuations for 12 of its 17 investments in private tech companies, including the accommodations share site Airbnb, ride share company Uber, cloud storage company Dropbox as well as open - source development company Cloudera, and Evernote, the organization app company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

With its latest expansion, Lyft might emerge as the ride - sharing company that's closest to ruling those suburbs.

The stock has been on a roller - coaster ride since unveiling its next generation products, as underwhelming reviews and weak demand for the iPhone 8 have sent shares tumbling.

As car - sharing services continue to gain steam, we want to know how you prefer to get around when you need a ride.

Those new unicorns include companies such as French ride - sharing service BlaBlaCar, e-commerce player Jet.com, and the recently - embattled fantasy sports site DraftKings.

Uber Pool was created as low - cost ride - sharing product, but it now also functions as a pseudo dating service for some people.

Ride - sharing app Lyft, which has seen its market share surge in the last year as rival Uber has struggled, is expanding outside of the U.S. for the first time with plans to launch in Toronto.

The move served as a rare moment of deference, as the startup juggernaut effectively gave up its share of the rapidly growing Asian ride - hailing market.

I shared a ride with one of the Inc. 5000 winners who showed a completely endearing excitement as he pointed to the brightly labeled Inc. 5000 van stationed outside the hotel.

Now, like Uber and Lyft in the ride - hailing market before them, electric scooter sharing startups are warring for the hearts and minds of customers and investors alike — while also battling with local authorities to be recognized as a legitimate mode of transport.

But she's going to face pressure to liberate high - tech, high - growth units such as ride - sharing / hailing division Maven and self - driving entity Cruise, mainly to deliver more returns on the stock price.

«With ride - sharing, car - sharing, and even bike - sharing we see buyers not nearly as needing of being half a mile to a metro.»

You join a start - up, get your options, ride them through the IPO, and sell your shares as soon as you can at Schwab because there are no insider - trading prohibitions.

Side hustles such as dog walking, tutoring, or driving for ride shares are a great way to earn extra income.

U.S. stocks closed higher on Thursday as tech shares rose following a roller coaster ride in the previous trading day.

And city streets — which are being overcrowded by the influx of ride - hailing vehicles, according to some reports — could become less congested as a ride - sharing fleet moves commuters around en masse, rather than individuals relying on their own cars to get to work.

These are important (and symbolic) hires for Uber as the company tries to prove it's no longer just a ride - sharing platform.

Because these modern - day apps, like Uber's ride - sharing platform for example, contain many different moving parts, require many resources, and must not easily overload under heavy use, they need to be powered by numerous computers, tethered together in what's known as distributed computing.

As for the long - term plan, Musk dodged a question from an analyst on whether the company could ever offer an autonomous vehicle to a ride - sharing company like Uber.

As an example, I would love for a team to look at ride - sharing — like what Lyft and Uber have done — and see how you use that to help solve public transportation problems in San Francisco.

In the coming days, Uber will likely have to take measures to secure its position as the go - to ride sharing app (competitor Lyft is already slowly making its way up to the top of the app store list).

Strike Energy's share price has been on a white knuckle ride over the last few weeks as investors desperately try to work out if it is going to be the next large cap gas producer in Australia, or fail whilst daring to create a new technical frontier in the search for coal seam gas riches.

As we've seen with Uber, which famously blinked when challenged by local ride - sharing service Didi Chuxing, Chinese competitors shouldn't be underestimated.

Along with Mayor Patricia Bates, he's helping spearhead a new initiative that will pay the ride - sharing behemoth up to $ 500,000 over the next year as part of a first - in - the - nation pilot program.

The Scour team reformed as Red Swoosh, a peer - to - peer file - sharing service Akamai Technologies later bought for $ 19 million before founding Uber, ride - for - hire sharing service, with Garrett Camp, co-founder of StumbleUpon, and himself a graduate school dropout.

Ford will roll out a fleet of self - driving cars as part of a ride - sharing or - hailing service by 2021.

Two years ago, the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to give taxi and ride - sharing drivers classified as independent contractors the ability to unionize.

Ford (f) also announced its intention to make self - driving cars for commercial ride - sharing or on - demand taxi services by 2021, a target the automaker says it will reach by expanding its Silicon Valley research lab, as well as investing in or buying autonomous vehicle technology startups.

Under the agreement, which many describe as a sweetheart deal for the highly valued ride - sharing company, Uber drivers still aren't considered employees.

The all - stock deal could value debt - ridden SolarCity — whose shares have dropped 63 percent over the last 12 months, partly due to changes in regulations on the solar - energy industry — at as much as $ 2.8 billion.

RideAustin is a non-profit company that showed itself as an interesting alternative to traditional ride - sharing ventures.

Lyft has expanded its on - demand ride - hailing service to 54 new U.S. cities Thursday as it tries to push deeper into the Midwest, East, and Southern states and take market share away from rival Uber.

Or distributing them as rewards to the authors who power social networks and the drivers who power ride - sharing networks.

Furthermore, a study by JPMorgan Chase looked specifically at gig economy workers working for labor platforms — such as ride - sharing companies — and capital platforms, like temporarily renting one's apartment.

Uber and Didi officially ceased fire as the American ride - sharing company sold its Chinese operations to the local company.

He established the Vision Fund, which, in conjunction with the Delta Fund set up to invest in Chinese ride - sharing firm Didi Chuxing Co., has funneled $ 27.5 billion into 20 tech firms as of the end of December.

Other technology firms that made it to the list are Nvidia at no. 28, which produces chips for futuristic technologies such as deep learning and driverless cars, Facebook at no. 29 for investing in Messenger and for hosting news articles on its platform, Japanese messaging app maker Line at no. 37, Coinbase at no. 40 for enabling Bitcoin payments in PayPal and Expedia, IBM at no. 46 for its work with Watson, Snapchat at no. 47 for its innovative new format, and Uber at no. 50 for its ride - sharing services and driver deliveries.

Even as Uber faces perhaps the most challenging time in its short corporate history, the ride - sharing app continues to add new features to its basic model, with the latest being the expansion of the UberEATS service.

Didi previously invested massively in ride - sharing companies from other markets, such as Ola, Lyft and Grabtaxi.

American ride - sharing company Uber is projected to gain as much as $ 10.84 billion this year and around $ 26.12 billion by the following year in global bookings, according to a recent presentation for potential investors.

Pay - per - use services such as car - sharing and ride - hailing are starting to challenge traditional car ownership in some in some of China's most congested cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, while global automakers are starting to bill themselves as «mobility» companies that do more than just build and sell vehicles.

Callinicos, who spent a total of 21 years working in various positions at Microsoft and Google, including treasurer and chief accountant at the search company before moving on to Uber, spent only two years as finance chief at the ride - sharing app.

Although the private company's finances are a mystery, industry experts question whether the company is subsidizing rides to grow market share, much as it did recently in a failed attempt to break into the Didi Chuxing - controlled Chinese market.

It eliminates the tax credit for transit riders effective in June, imposes modest price hikes for alcohol and cracks down to ensure ride - sharing services such as Uber charge passengers the GST.

H&R Block's Charney notes that last - minute surprises may become more common as larger numbers of Americans earn self - employment income from things such as driving for a ride - sharing service, renting out a room in their home, or performing consulting services.

Ride - sharing apps have taken off among Vietnam's rapidly expanding middle class as they provide four - wheeled comfort in a country better known for chaotic swarms of scooters and Southeast Asia's most expensive taxi fares.

Instead, it is used by application developers as a currency for transactions on the Ethereum network, which includes a range of applications like ride - sharing, betting and investment.