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Uber to San Antonio: Change new regulations or we’ll hit the road

Photo By Siana Hristova/The Chronicle Ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft are growing in popularity across the country, as people use the apps to line up rides.   SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio City Council members have been put on notice — if they don’t wholly...
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Google to Develop Its Own Ride Hailing App, in Competition To Uber.

Uber faces an ever-growing cast of adversaries that includes dubious regulators, litigious drivers, hostile members of the press, and some well funded rivals. But the most significant threat to the app-based transportation company may be much closer to home: one of...
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Ireland : 1,700 taxi drivers gave up licences in 2014

More than 1,700 taxi drivers quit their jobs last year as the number of taxi driver licences in Ireland fell below 30,000 for the first time in a decade. Data from the National Transport Authority (NTA) shows there were 1,729 fewer taxi licence holders at the end of...
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Google Is Developing Its Own Uber-esque Taxi Service

Just this afternoon we heard that Uber is taking on Google by working to build driverless cars. Well, it turns out that Google is also taking on Uber—it’s working on a cab service. According to Bloomberg, the cab service probably will use the driverless cars currently...
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Canadian Taxi drivers take UberX protest to city hall.

May 21, 2015

More than 100 taxi drivers staged a lunch-hour protest in front of city hall, demanding the city and province take more action to combat the ride-sharing service UberX. The cab drivers contend that UberX is engaging in illegal transportation, and it is costing...

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