Uber signs with Yellow Cab SF and Flywheel Technologies to bring all of San Francisco's 1,075 taxis to its app in the coming months, after a similar deal in NYC
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DoorDash agrees to pay $5.3M to settle with San Francisco over allegations that it stiffed ~4,500 delivery workers out of the city's mandated employee benefits
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Uber says driver price-naming and destination previewing policies it introduced last year in California have hurt its business, and is considering ending both
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Uber and others have added $70M more to their California ballot campaign to keep gig workers as independent contractors, bringing total campaign funds to $181M
Gig companies have poured another $70 million into their ballot campaign to keep drivers and couriers as independent contractors … Tweets: @sfchronicle and @csaid . Thanks: @techchronicle Tweets: @sfc...
Uber drivers in Southern California and Sacramento can now set their own fares, higher or lower than Uber's existing rates, in response to AB5 state law
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SF supervisor says Uber is retaliating against the city's temporary cap on food delivery commissions by ceasing deliveries to low income neighborhoods
as opposed to letting the free market decide. Do @DoorDash @postmates and @Grubhub still deliver to treasure island? https://twitter.com/... @thesoulcab : @dkhos @tonywest are shitty liars, they don't...
Food delivery service Munchery says it will end operations effective immediately and will refund any outstanding orders; Munchery had raised $125M+ from VCs
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Sidecar, an early ride-hailing player that shut down in 2015, is suing Uber, alleging that tactics like sending “fraudulent ride requests” were used against it
And What it Means for Innovation and Competition Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Defunct ride-sharing firm Sidecar sues Uber for using “illegal” market-dominating tactics Dara Kerr / CNET : Uber's ‘clandesti...
Waymo granted the first permit from California's DMV for driverless testing of autonomous cars on public roads, will start with limited tests in Silicon Valley
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Lyft says it will enhance its background checks after revelations that an undocumented immigrant who has been charged with serial rape worked as a Lyft driver
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