Uber’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dara Khosrowshahi, met with Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on 21 February 2018. In the meeting, Khosrowshahi reportedly has said that Uber will work in partnership with Japanese taxi companies and not confront them. A country without ridehailing Over the past few years, Uber’s presence in Japan has […]
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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 […]
Yellow taxi cabs and New York City — what could be more iconic? Successfully hailing a cab has always been a rite of passage for New Yorkers. It has bewildered out-of-towners but was traditionally handled with little effort by seasoned residents of the Big Apple: spot an on-duty cab, raise a hand, hop inside, enjoy […]
Disruption, blissfully happy digital nomads, the sharing economy and oh yes — the “Gig Economy” sounded good on paper, but it seems to not be all it was thought it might become. As the U.S. economy finally and painfully slowly recovered from the great recession of 2008, the supposed unemployment rate fell to record low levels in […]
During the very successful IRU Taxi Forum in Cologne, the IRU also emphatically pressed the ‘reset button’. The IRU press release about the Forum even claimed that “the IRU is taking charge of the future of taxis.” Nothing is further from the truth. The organization has – after some internal difficulties – been virtually invisible […]
By Mac Urata, International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) inland transport secretary Who uses ride-hailing services in the United States and why? A recent report by UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies draws up an interesting picture of young, affluent and highly educated riders that e-hail Uber or Lyft for their trips to bars and parties. […]
Ben Smith, BuzzFeed’s Editor in Chief wrote this interesting and critical piece on the growing distrust of Silicon Valley companies – including Uber. The blinding rise of Donald Trump over the past year has masked another major trend in American politics: the palpable, and perhaps permanent, turn against the tech industry, BuzzFeed writes. The new […]
There’s a pattern that’s becoming clear: a news story breaks revealing Uber to have been engaged in illegal, unethical, or just downright gross behaviour. Uber half-heartedly swears it’s an exception, or it’s in the past, or that actually it is the law that is wrong anyway. Everyone expresses outrage, arguing that this is surely the […]
Is Uber Bleeding to Death?” Many readers must have asked the same question in recent times. Yet there always seems to be more money in the Uber-coffers. Jared Carmel, Managing Partner of Manhattan Venture Partners, put his thoughts in a piece he recently posted on Linked in. Jared Carmel, Managing Partner, Manhattan Venture Partners Uber […]
Danish lecturer and commentator Jonathan Løw happily uses Uber but he says “it’s decidedly wrong” when people see Uber as an example of disruption. It’s more about the deliberate use of a legal grey area, he writes. There are at least three reasons that Uber is not a disruptive company. Before you get totally annoyed […]
