The largest internet company in Russia is under fire from the Russian security service FSB. It insists that Yandex hand over the encryption keys of its internet services, including e-mail, a taxi app (the popular Yandex Taxi service) and cloud management. Yandex is the Russian counterpart of Google and, just like that company, is everywhere. […]
Taxi app ‘taxi.eu’ wants to massively strengthen its network and make taxi radio circuits cooperate better. That is why, in the near future, the brand will come under the umbrella of a newly established company provisionally called ‘Taxi Europe AG’ which will also be open to outside investors. The existing partners – mostly taxi radio […]
Uber is being examined by US and foreign tax authorities, the company confirmed on Tuesday, saying it could face charges in key markets including the UK, The Guardian, Forbes and Bloomberg report. The news, contained in a regulatory filing and first reported by Bloomberg, is a new blow to the company. Uber has lost about […]
Together with Daimler, Bosch will start a pilot with robot taxis in San José this fall. During this pilot project, the test drives will only be conducted with trained drivers and an additional system engineer. The technology for self-driving cars is in an advanced development phase and the two partners want to conduct practical tests. […]
At the beginning of last month, the municipality of Amsterdam published the Clean Air Action Plan. The most important part of the plan is to make traffic in the city free of emissions by 2030. The city wants to achieve this by expanding the environmental zones and introducing emission-free areas. For taxis, this means that […]
The taxi app ‘Taxi.eu’ is strengthening its network under the umbrella of ‘Taxi Europa AG’ – a provisional name – to enable pan-European service, more cooperation between European taxi radio circuits and to encourage investment by third parties. The existing partners – mostly taxi radio circuits – will receive preferential shares. Most of the 165 […]
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“The close-knit nature of the Taxi.eu family remains important and could and should be strengthened further so that we can benefit from the network and from each other’s experience. There is strength in numbers! We also need to let our voice be heard in those national and European institutions where it matters. That is an […]
Investigative reporter Brian M. Rosenthal and his team from the New York Times have spent over 10 months, interviewed 450 people, built a database of every medallion sale since 1995 and reviewed thousands of individual loans and other documents, including internal bank records and confidential profit-sharing agreements. The investigation found example after example of drivers […]
After the medallion market collapsed, Mayor Bill de Blasio opted not to fund a bailout, and earlier this year, the City Council speaker, Corey Johnson, shut down the committee overseeing the taxi industry, saying it had completed most of its work. Over 10 months, The Times interviewed 450 people, built a database of every medallion […]
The investigations come after The New York Times found that thousands of drivers were crushed under debt they could not repay. The New York attorney general’s office said Monday it had opened an inquiry into more than a decade of lending practices that left thousands of immigrant taxi drivers in crushing debt, while Mayor Bill […]
