SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Venture Capital Firm Fined $215M Over Russian Oligarch Funds A Flywheel taxi flipped over in Civic Center on Friday morning; four detainees escaped from a New Jersey ICE facility during a riot that broke out over hunger and poor conditions; and a local firm was fined for managing a sanctioned Russian oligarch’s investments.
Business & Tech Flywheel Taxicabs Are Now on the Uber App in San Francisco Uber’s long war on the taxicab industry has ended with a whimper and a merger, as Flywheel cabs are now incorporated into the Uber fleet, in a pilot that’s starting here in SF and hopes to fly nationwide.
Business & Tech Uber On the Verge of Cutting Deal With Taxi Fleet Flywheel A shocking alliance between Uber and SF taxicabs is on the table, as cab fleet Flywheel is in talks with Uber to put their cabs on the Uber app.
SF News Flywheel Taxi (Née DeSoto) Sues Uber For Predatory Pricing Uber is on the receiving end of another lawsuit this week, and this time it's not from the ride-hail company's "driver-partners". Rather, according to the Chronicle, in a lawsuit filed yesterday in federal
SF News Lyft App Not Approved By California Regulators For Calculating Fares Uber and Lyft have changed the taxi industry in many ways. The most obvious: supplanting the old-school meter that calculated distance by monitoring wheel rotations with a supposedly more accurate GPS meter. Measuring
SF News SFMTA Will Drug-Test Taxi Drivers, Is Chill With Medical Marijuana Though Further differentiating the taxi industry from Lyft and Uber, who do nothing of the sort, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors voted unanimously yesterday to annually drug test cabbies for
SF News Flywheel Taxi Sues For Cities To Regulate Uber And Lyft In order to level what they deem to be an unfair field of competition against the likes of Uber and Lyft, Flywheel Taxi of San Francisco is suing California regulators, the Chronicle and
SF News DeSoto Cab Co. Rebrands Itself As Flywheel The latest chapter in the rideshare-taxi war has San Francisco's oldest cab company, DeSoto, letting go of its entire brand and image in favor of aligning itself with the Flywheel taxi-hailing app. As
Arts & Entertainment Celebrate NYE With A $10 Flat-Rate Cab Ride Anywhere In SF This post is brought to you by Flywheel. It's a familiar feeling: your New Year's plans are perfectly laid out. It's gonna be the best party of the year. You're excited, your friends
