Lyft plans to open a new tech hub in Toronto in H2 2026 and acquires TBR Global Chauffeuring, a Glasgow-based luxury chauffeur services company, for £83M
Its Biggest Move Outside the U.S. Matthew Broersma / Silicon UK : Lyft To Open Toronto Tech Hub In International Growth Push LinkedIn: Rachel Goldstein : 🚀 Here we grow again—and we're doing it in Tor...
Eventual, which develops Daft, a Python-native open-source data processing engine, raised a $7.5M seed led by CRV and a $20M Series A led by Felicis Ventures
When Eventual founders Sammy Sidhu and Jay Chia were working as software engineers at Lyft's autonomous vehicle program …
Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay
Even If You're Not One Johan / The Rideshare Guy : Weekly Roundup: Rideshare Drivers Use Teslas as Makeshift Robotaxis Katie Johnston / The Boston Globe : 'To me, this isn't a full and real union': La...
A typo in Lyft's Q4 release mistakenly forecast a 500 BPS of EBITDA margin improvement for 2024, causing a stock surge, before the error was corrected to 50 BPS
- Lyft mistakenly forecast 500 basis points of margin improvement for 2024, causing a stock surge.
Lyft announces Women+ Connect, a feature that prioritizes matching female and nonbinary drivers and riders, falling back to men when no other people are nearby
The company said it hoped to improve safety and encourage more female drivers. — Lyft said on Tuesday that it was introducing …
Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on Uber for Teens and potential issues, rising prices, profitability, Lyft, DoorDash, driving for Uber, AI, and more
Uber announced its first-ever operating profit … Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg : Uber Falls as Focus Shifts From First Profit to Slow Growth Alex Popovics / The Rideshare Guy : Uber Driver's Guide to San...
WeMeta: the median price per square meter of land in Decentraland has dropped from ~$45 in 2022 to $5 in 2023, as the hype around the metaverse has receded
but Lyft's New CEO Has It Worse Mastodon: Mike Elgan / @MikeElgan@mastodon.social : Word of the moment: “meh-taverse” — https://www.wsj.com/... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra@mastodonapp.uk : The Metav...
Uber's slow response to law enforcement requests and a complex request process are leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks by riders using fake accounts
An investigation by The Markup found that Uber is slow to respond to law enforcement requests, leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks Tweets: @andyjayhawk , @sisiwei , @jonkeegan , @themarkup ...
Lyft freezes all hiring in the US through the end of 2022 and began notifying job candidates about the freeze this week; Lyft's stock is down 68% year-to-date
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The Department of Defense hires Craig Martell, Lyft's head of machine learning, as the Pentagon's first chief digital and artificial intelligence officer
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