Ride-hailing service, Uber, will now allow riders to access its services 24 hours provided they are going to or from the airport. At the start of September 2020, Uber Kenya begun allowing riders to hail a cab to and from the following local airports; Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), Wilson ...
Ride-hailing and delivery company, Uber, has launched its intercity bus service in Egypt, with the main goal of increasing the accessibility of cities. Egypt is the first country globally to have this service. Uber said in a statement, “Built locally, the company chooses Egypt once again to be the first ...
Uber has announced the acquisition of transit software company, Routematch. The move is geared towards expanding the ride-hailing firm's into public transport. The firm has over time been collaborating with public transportation agencies and recently announced its first transit deal with a transportation agency in San Fransisco. Uber had been ...
Uber has partnered with Moove, Nigeria's flexible car ownership company, to provide potential and current Uber drivers in sub-Saharan Africa with long-term access to vehicles. Uber says the collaboration aims to lower existing barriers to car ownership on the continent and empower drivers to be their own boss within a ...
Ride-hailing giant, Uber has confirmed its acquisition of food delivery startup, Postmates. According to Bloomberg, the deal is reportedly an all-stock deal valued at US$ 2.6 Billion. Uber is reportedly planning to run Postmates, and its own food delivery app, Uber Eats, alongside each other. It will however merge some ...
Uber is reportedly in talks to buy out San Francisco based food delivery company Postmates for about $2.6 billion. According to the New York Times, the deal is still underway and could go through any time soon. Uber has been eyeing food delivery deals consistently in the past period to ...
California is seeking to force Uber and Lyft to reclassify its drivers as employees after classifying them as independent contractors. The two ride-hailing companies have been accused of treating drivers as contractors to deny them their privileges in the company. The privileges include wage and hour laws, including the right ...
How about booking your ride an hour early? Uber has announced a feature that will let you book a ride for up to 7 hours ahead for $50 an hour. The new hourly feature dubbed "Hourly booking" that will let the company restructure and survive through the COVID-19 pandemic. The ...
Uber is cutting three thousand additional jobs, closing 45 offices worldwide as the company struggles through the pandemic period. The ride-hailing company has now reduced its workforce by 25%, making these layoffs one of the largest in the wake of the pandemic. The shutdown will affect offices including Ubers prominent ...
Uber has introduced a new feature "The Work Hub" to help drivers earn money through the company's other ventures like Uber Eats or haul freight with companies tracking business. The feature allows drivers can use to receive orders, pick up a shift from Uber's temporary work program Uber works or ...
Uber has temporarily suspended its services for UberX, and UberBoda in Uganda for 14 days. This comes after the announcement by HE Yoweri Museveni that the country will go on a 14-day lockdown. The lockdown becomes effective as from 1st and it will be lifted on April 14th. The growing ...
Following the rising spread of coronavirus around the world. Companies have become very keen on measures to protect their employees from getting exposed to the COVID-19 pandemic. Uber is among the lastest companies that have taken those measures. Uber will compensate drivers affected by COVID-19, which will be based on ...
Uber has added a safety feature on the Uber app to let you report a problem from the car when the trip is in progress. The feature is currently available in the US and Canada. This is the second feature after the company in 2018 added a 911 button. Where ...
Uber is testing a new feature in California that will allow drivers to set their prices for rides. Previously, Uber will preset prices for the drivers. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The new feature allows drivers to increase fares to up to five times more than Uber’s ...
Uber has lost its licence to operate in London for the second time in two years as it faces the prospect of a ban from the capital, all for failing to stop unlicensed and uninsured drivers picking up passengers. Transport for London (TfL) said it had identified 'several breaches that placed ...
Driving for Uber, Little Cab, or Bolt (Formerly Taxify) is a great opportunity to make some extra cash or even provide a significant income for those who do it on a full-time basis. When it comes to the investment required, driving for this ride-hailing apps is an extremely cheap option, ...
The Ethnic Brand, a Kenyan startup that wants to be an Uber for manufacturing, has raised $500,000 from Malaysia's Magic Accelerator to bring manufacturing as a service to global artisans and fashion gurus. Ethnic Brand, an offshoot of Alex Mativo's E-lab which was recycling obsolete electronic devices by turning them ...
In a move that will see Uber customers move from one point to another with or without data, Uber has unveiled a hotline to allow its users to hail cabs using just a phone call. You can now request a ride with just a phone call—giving you more options to ...
uMashesha is South Africa's first woman-owned taxi hailing app targeting at taking on Uber and other such apps with better commissions and more business for its driver partners from its delivery services. Launched two months ago by CEO Christine Mesolo, the Centurion based Cab Hailing start-up says it has invested more ...
Toyota and Uber have announced a partnership agreement to advance and bring to market autonomous ride-sharing as a mobility service at scale. The firms aim to deploy the self-driving technology into purpose-built Toyota vehicles which will then be deployed on Uber's ride-sharing network. Separately, Toyota is investing $500 million in Uber. "Combining ...
Google Maps and Uber teamed up in 2017 to come up with a feature that would enable one to search for, book and pay for an Uber direct from Google Maps. It helped new people in a place to check for directions, distance and the estimated fare to their destination ...
US-riding hailing firm Uber has launched Uber Lite in India but targeted at the other emerging markets such as as Latin America and Africa where data is expensive and smartphone penetration is largely populated by low storage $100 Android smartphones. "At Uber, we believe that anyone, anywhere should be able ...
Uber Eats has acquired South African restaurant technology HBD portfolio company: orderTalk, Inc to enable it to streamline workflows by directly integrating with leading point of sale (POS) systems. Though the terms of the deal were not disclosed, the deal triggers a significant venture capital exit for Knife Capital and HBD ...
UAE's cab hailing startup Mondo Ride, which launched in Kenya in 2016 to take on Uber, Maramoja Transport has raised $2 million in funding today to bring to $5 million its total funds raised as the firm struggles to beat Taxify, Little and Uber in Kenya's aggressive taxi market. Since its ...
Uber Eats is set to launch in Kenya and the firm is hiring a Marketplace Operations Manager to scale and develop its food delivery platform in the market. According to a job posting by Uber on Ringier's BrighterMonday the firm is looking at someone strong enough to coordinate relations between the consumer, ...
Ridesharing company, Uber has agreed to pay up to $3 million to settle a class-action lawsuit slammed on it on behalf of 2,421 drivers in New York. The drivers accused Uber of breach of contract for including sales tax and a "Black Car Fund" fee, which relates to workers' compensation, ...
Taxify has hit one year since its launch in Kenya, East Africa recording tremendous growth in the last 12 months. The firm says it expanded to 4 cities within East Africa in the last quarter of 2017 with more than 5 million trips taken across East Africa. The firm says ...
Uber Kenya is losing customers fast due to its high passenger charges, few driver-partners on the road due to high commissions and a general lack of local of quick customer care. There have been claims that the firm is one in three people daily due to the above. However, in ...
Uber has hired a new GM for West Africa as Safaricom-backed Little prepares to launch in a few weeks. Uber says its new GM for West Africa, Lola Kassim, who is replacing Ebi Atawodi will oversee the firm's West Africa strategy, improve its UberX service and create additional value for ...
Didi-backed Taxify has launched Taxify Comfort, a new service for riders seeking a top-end service experience with experienced and highest rated drivers as well as newer, better car models. The launch of Taxify Comfort comes just ten days after Uber launched UberSELECT in the market. Taxify Silently, Didi-backed firm added surge ...
