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Mexico: Taxis block streets in Mexico City to protest against Uber app

Published on May 25, 2015 Hundreds of taxi drivers marched through Mexico City, Monday, and used their taxis to block traffic in a protest against online private car service Uber. The taxi drivers are angry that Uber and other similar private hire services avoid the...

Can Cabs Make a Comeback?

These days ask anyone, and they will tell you Uber is all the rage. At least, they will say that if they don’t work for the cab company. Talk to a cabbie about Uber, and you are liable to get slammed with a string of four-letter expletives that would make a Parris...

Uber Dealt Fresh Blow by French Court

Constitutional Council upholds parts of transport law aimed at reining in car-hailing firm PARIS—Uber Technologies Inc. lost a round in its ongoing legal battles in Europe, when a French court upheld parts of a transport law aimed at reining in the California-based...

FBI investigates as ‘phantom’ cab rides appear on hacked British Uber accounts

Speculation that account credentials of of customers using the taxi app were sold on ‘dark web’ The FBI in the US is looking into how British users of the taxi-booking app Uberhave been charged for journeys they did not either book or make. The minicab service, which...