Airbnb, an apartment - sharing platform, and Uber, a peer - to - peer
payment ride service, are both startups - turned - global companies contributing to the «sharing economy.»
Not exact matches
Swan Taxis has launched an update for its app, which now allows customers to book a cab
ride and make automatic cashless
payments with the use of a credit card, similar to the
service offered by competitor Uber.
What people were spending on car
payments and gasoline can be diverted to
ride services and the electricity to support them.
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.
Twitter's successful debut is likely to stoke interest in other up - and - coming consumer Internet companies such as
ride service Uber, scrapbooking site Pinterest, accommodation
service Airbnb and the
payment start - up Square, all of which boast private - market valuations well north of a billion dollars and could go public in the coming years.
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These car - sharing
services have meant cheaper prices (surge hours aside), easier hailing, and easier
payment for those in need of a
ride.
The problem, he explained, is that the Uber
service appears to be a «composite
service» (para. 28) where part of the
service — the location of nearby cars and the ordering and
payment for carriage — is provided electronically and at a distance, the remaining part, the
ride itself, is not.
This app turns your phone into a virtual dispatch and
payment center, allowing regular citizens to easily offer
rides for pay in any city that has enough users to warrant the
service.
To use the
service, the business or organization in question has to first set up a Lyft Business account, and attach a
payment card to be used for the
rides they book.