Sentences with phrase «of lyft»

In light of the latest terrorist attack by a NY Uber driver, as well as the case of the Lyft driver who was convicted of federal terrorism 5 months before he started driving for Lyft, I feel it's the perfect time to examine how two such employees were able to pass background checks.

Besides booking rides with the likes of Lyft and Uber, your other options with Siri involve messaging, photo searching, mobile payments, workouts and placing calls through Voice over IP apps.

Valerie just recently joined the board of Lyft, she's on the board of another internet company, and we were talking a little about tech stuff.

If you're looking for an example of how far self - driving technology has to go before it's ready to be adopted en masse, take my ride in one of Lyft's first autonomous cars: On a demo ride earlier this month, the vehicle came across a bus that had seemingly stalled out.

ComScore also recently pegged the app as the second fastest - growing in the U.S., in its 2017 Mobile App Report, putting it ahead of Lyft, Venmo and others based on monthly traffic growth.

Concierge offers a variety of Lyft ride types, and the businesses can also access real - time ride tracking and 24 - hour customer support, the company says.

The business of Lyft and its popularity is quietly ramping up to acquire more customers across the United States.

The potential integrations of Lyft's services that Generali Global Assistance will explore are numerous.

According to a recent report in the Chicago Tribune, passengers who don't buckle up in the back of their Lyft or Uber are eight times more likely to die from a traffic fatality than those who take this simple precaution.

Whether Lyft's insurance kicks in is entirely dependent on two factors: the status of the Lyft app at the time of the wreck and whether the Lyft driver had a paying customer when the crash happened.

Keep in mind that the name of the SkyMiles account number needs to match the name of the Lyft account profile.

The addition of Lyft marks Delta's second «sharing economy» partnership for SkyMiles in recent months.

To grab more of the lucrative corporate travel market, Lyft is now bringing even more magic to our airport or cross-town rides with the introduction of Lyft Premier — a new luxury ride service that will pick you up in high - end sedan or SUV like a BMW 5 Series, Audi A6, Lexus LS, or Cadillac Escalade in minutes.

Talking with the drivers, Uber doesn't care about the drivers and it's good that more people are becoming aware of Lyft but unfortunately Uber still has access to most of the business.

Many of the Lyft Plus, Premier, and Lux vehicles are similar to the vehicles already included UberX and UberBLACK.

The team studied the influence of Uber, but did not look at the influence of Lyft or other providers.

The benefits of Lyft are clear: increased transportation options, economic opportunities for individuals and communities and enhanced public safety.»

Not everyone has a car, especially in a crowded city like ours, and the concept of Lyft is to create a community that offers a friendlier ride when you need it, like getting a lift from a friend.

His stake in the ride - hailing company is now 4.3 percent, according to a person with knowledge of Lyft's ownership figures.

That raises questions for the future of this complex ecosystem, which in the case of Lyft also includes automakers like Jaguar.

In the main tent we will hear from executives including Toni Reid, Amazon's VP of Alexa Experiences & Echo Devices; Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson and Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse; and John Zimmer, co-founder and president of Lyft.

GM is open to working with some of Lyft's international partners, which include Didi Kuaidi in China, Ola in India and GrabTaxi in Southeast Asia, Ammann said.

Another entrepreneur focused on disrupting markets, John Zimmer is famous for his creation of Lyft, a major competitor with Uber.

John Zimmer, co-founder and president of Lyft, speaks on stage during a Founders Stories session at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 in San Francisco, California September 9, 2013.

The latter reportedly paid $ 104.9 million to get 2.3 percent of Lyft which now has an estimated valuation of around $ 4.92 billion.

«We're excited to partner with Hitch Health, an organization focused on creating and delivering health solutions that remove barriers for patients in underserved communities, in a collaboration that marries our unique API solution with their innovative technology to make it easier for people to get to and from their healthcare appointments,» said Gyre Renwick, VP of Lyft Business.

Today, he runs all of Lyft's New York City operations, working on everything from local promotions to driver growth to building up Lyft's team in its Long Island City, Queens, offices.

Instead, they make it harder for part - time drivers, the heart of Lyft's peer - to - peer model, to get on the road and harder for passengers to get a ride,» according to a Lyft statement.

The strategic partnership will let the companies share technology, product development, and local resources, and when US users of Lyft go to China (or when Didi users come visit the US), they'll be able to pay in their native currency on each app.

As of last year, he owned 35 million shares of Twitter and his company owned 3.5 percent of Lyft, according to Recode.

John Zimmer, president of Lyft, Uber's arch foe in the U.S., returns.

Since GM's driverless cars are years away from hitting the road as part of Lyft's service, the automaker plans to provide short - term car rentals (for a day, week or month) to Lyft drivers in the immediate future, as well as lease financing through its GM Financial arm, said Ammann.

Rumors of Lyft's latest fundraising activities surfaced in the last few months, with its valuation growing from $ 500 million to $ 1 billion.

VanderZanden served as the first chief operating officer of Lyft and the vice president of driver growth at Uber.

Lyft, constantly the underdog to Uber in the race to overhaul the ride - hailing space, has been in its financial shadow since Uber recently filed to raise another $ 2.1 billion round of funding at a $ 62.5 billion valuation — putting it at 12 times the size of Lyft.

Whether it's Ruumi or Peeple, or the likes of Lyft, Shyp, Shomi or even Flickr and Tumblr, technology companies are making a mockery of the English language.

Zimmer explained that when motivating employees of Lyft to work hard against Uber — which has six times the funding of Lyft, and is the highest - valued private startup in the world — he focuses on the company's «humanity:» the fact that it values person - to - person interaction.

Logan Green and John Zimmer, co-founders of the Lyft ride - sharing service pledged to donate $ 1 million to the ACLU over the next four years.

For instance, the majority of Lyft riders in San Francisco are women.

Rumors of Lyft's Canadian expansion plans have been floating around for a couple of months now.

The timing of Lyft's big expansion is interesting — while it surely took months of planning, the announcement comes at a time when Uber is embroiled in a number of controversies.

Regarding the challenges of Lyft's dwarfed role in a notoriously competitive duopoly, Sundararajan says it's early days yet.

Whereas Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has spoken about seeing every car uberized and the company has extended its tendrils into areas like delivery, Zimmer is careful to delineate distractions and define the limits of Lyft's goals.

I mostly had to call a bunch of Lyfts and go around picking up cheese and salami from Bi-Rite.

Not exact matches

While Lyft never operated services in China, the complication adds heat to a U.S. market some say is winner - take - all, where one company has a valuation more than 10 times that of the other.

Zimmer says that Lyft's view of self - driving vehicles» immediate future contrasts with ideas of a «magical autonomous car [that] drops out of the sky and does everything,» and also of cars with autonomous software that theoretically improve over time in the model of Tesla's Autopilot.

Perhaps the best illustration of how Lyft will distinguish itself moving forward lies in the company's thinking surrounding self - driving cars.

Lyft also engendered trust with riders, Zimmer says, through background checks of drivers.

In a release Monday, Lyft and GM announced the expansion of their joint vehicle - rental program, which allows Lyft drivers to rent a nearly - new GM vehicle for the short -(or, occasionally, long --RRB- term.

From a swivel chair in one of the many identical 10 - by - 10 conference rooms at Lyft's labyrinthine offices, Zimmer declined to comment specifically on the rumors Lyft is entering merger and acquisition territory.