Sentences with phrase «smaller taxi companies»

While the San Francisco - based ride - hailing giant has been putting smaller taxi companies out of business across the globe, it often did so amidst allegations of unfair competition that have been made by both its competitors and regulators.
Both Samson and Laura had solid jobs: he worked as a dispatcher and manager at a small taxi company, and she worked part - time teaching night school.

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Believing these people, and afraid to miss out on the gold rush, small - time investors, grandma and grandpa, and barbers and taxi drivers invested their life savings in companies such as Pets.com, Webvan, and eToys.
The official Denver report on the Democrats» largesse four years ago includes testimonials from small business entrepreneurs, including a taxi company that reported a 42 % increase in business over comparable weeks, and a shuttle bus company that did 60 % more business than usual.
Delphi Automotive (dlph) will launch a small test fleet of automated taxis in Singapore next year, aiming to ferry passengers around a city district in one of the first real - world tests of automated rides on demand, the company said on Monday.
While it would in theory allow it to hire more drivers including applicants it previously rejected, and therefore continue to compete with taxis and rival Lyft, the company told the Journal that it would only affect a small number of applicants.
The main beneficiaries will be public transport companies, large freight transporters and smaller diesel users such as taxi operators.
Due to regulations that require taxi drivers to hold special licenses, companies like Uber can't offer ride - sharing services in Tokyo and other major Japanese cities (instead, Uber currently operates only in small, rural towns where there weren't any taxi companies).
At least 19 companies are developing air taxi plans, including legacy manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus, big tech firms like Uber, and small startups like Kitty Hawk, owned by Google founder Larry Page.
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