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Chinese Police Raid Uber Office Over Alleged Black Cab Operations

   Local police, together with transportation and commercial authorities, raided the offices of the car-hailing app Uber in the southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou Thursday night. Authorities suspect Uber employees of organizing illegal taxi services, according...
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How One Woman Could Destroy Uber’s Business Model — and Take the Entire ‘On-Demand’ Economy Down With It

Shannon Liss-Riordan. Photo: Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesOne of the perks of being a top Uber driver is the company’s employee-of-the-week award. It’s called the Sixth Star prize, and it comes with a swag bag and a $1,000 American Express gift...
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Brazil court injunction suspends Uber ride-share service

A Brazilian court has issued an injunction suspending the U.S-based online taxi service Uber, the latest setback for the company after several countries took similar steps in recent months. The State Court of Sao Paulo ruled on Tuesday that Uber, which allows users to...
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Hailo lays off 17 London employees

Taxi-hailing app Hailo has laid off 17 employees in London, out of its 150 employees worldwide, as part of a plan to “rebalance its engineering structure” and “shift focus towards accelerating our business growth and operational delivery off the back of this...
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Uber service ‘banned’ in ritzy East Hampton

Jun 7, 2015

  Uber service has been stopped in ritzy East Hampton, New York The move went into effect Friday morning  According to Uber, East Hampton requires drivers to have an office in the town so they can be licensed Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell said 'We had cabs...

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