SF News Day Around The Bay: Lyft Settles Class Action Suit, Drivers Remain Contractors Lyft just settled a class action lawsuit for $12.25 million. The result: Its drivers won’t be employees. [Wired] Is Apple expanding to San Jose? San Jose sure hopes so. [Business Times]
SF News Pretty Much Everyone Is Suing Uber At This Point Uber has a reputation as a company disinclined to shy away from conflict — a reputation that may be well deserved. The technology giant is currently facing approximately 50 different suits in federal court,
SF News Video: Uber Drivers Stage 'Honk-In' Protest Over Wages In Front Of Uber HQ Uber drivers protesting #Uber #UberProtest #iloveSF #sanfrancisco #beepbeep #honkhonk #stfu A video posted by @pawshbb on Jan 25, 2016 at 3:55pm PST Uber drivers, upset over an announcement by the company earlier
SF News Amid Massive Losses, Thirsty Uber Gambles On Lower Prices, Higher Volume Silicon Valley's leakiest unicorn is betting on cheaper rates, more drivers, and greater ride volume to make a profit. Losses for Uber, a professional contracting service, grew to $1.7 billion on $1.
SF News Uber Strikes Deal Blocking Lyft From Levi's Stadium Uber has inked a deal with Super Bowl officials allowing the company exclusive ride-hail access to the area surrounding Levi's Stadium on the day of Super Bowl 50. That means competitor Lyft (and
SF News Man Who Thought He Was Getting Into Lyft Robbed At Gunpoint This report has been updated following its publication. A user of the transportation network company Lyft had an unexpectedly scary ride this week, after a fellow passenger robbed him at gunpoint. According to
SF News SF's Yellow Cab Enters New Chapter... 11 Bankruptcy Welcome to 2016, San Francisco. Yellow Cab Co-Op, our city's largest taxi company with 530 medallions, is filing for bankruptcy the Examiner reports. In a letter obtained by the paper, president of the
SF News Lyft Scores $500 Million General Motors Investment, Plans Autonomous Cars General Motors knows that, in the future, not everyone is going to own their own car. Lyft knows that, in the future, not everyone is even going to drive a car. So, as
SF News Sidecar Hails A Ride To Nowhere, Announces It Will Cease Operations By Year's End So long Sidecar, and thanks for all the side-view mirror covers. Co-founders of the company announced in a blog post today that Sidecar would cease operations by the end of the year in
SF News Tacolicious, Zeitgeist, Airbnb Offices Top 2015 Lyft Destinations As the year draws to a close, the final days of December traditionally provide a time for us to look back and reflect on choices made (or not made) and to dream about
SF News [Update] Seattle Approves Unions For Uber, Lyft Drivers Seattle's City Council voted today to allow freelance drivers the right to collectively negotiate such items as pay and working conditions. The New York Times observed that if the right were conferred upon
SF News Taxis May Be Bouncing Back Despite Competition From Uber And Lyft You may have assumed that taxi cabs were an endangered species and likely bound for extinction in the next few years, but that assumption may be very wrong. As the Wall Street Journal
SF News Woman Mistakenly Thought Deaf Lyft Driver Was Kidnapping Her A woman thought she was being kidnapped by her Lyft driver in San Francisco late Thursday night, and jumped out of the car at a stoplight and ran away, breaking her ankle in
Arts & Entertainment Lyft Is Delivering Free Zombies Today For a little Halloween promotional fun, Lyft is delivering zombies to your door today, for free. "Liven up a dead party! Activate a sluggish meeting!" says the promo. Yes, you can have a
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 California Approves Lyft-Specific Car Insurance Drivers for Lyft and Uber must (theoretically, and yeah, legally) be insured at all times on the road. The ride-hailing process, however, is a unique one. There's driving around as a private citizen
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 Uber Class Action To Make Drivers Employees Moves Forward A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit proceeding in San Francisco against Uber to get drivers reclassified as employees instead of independent contractors can move forward as a class action. This means
SF News Have You Been Hit On By A Dude Using Lyft Line To Meet Women? A San Francisco man who calls himself an entrepreneur is reportedly trying to turn Lyft Line into an (involuntary) Tinder. As Leigha Beckman writes on Medium and shares with SFist, a man she
SF News SF And LA District Attorneys: 'Some Uber Drivers Are Murderers And Felons' According to a new amended complaint by the district attorneys of San Francisco and Los Angeles, Uber's background-check method is inferior to that of regular taxi companies, and it failed to catch the
SF News Your UberX Driver Is Also Probably Your Postmates And Washio Delivery Person A new survey by a dubiously named outfit called SherpaShare which itself is a service portal for workers in the gig/sharing economy confirms that many drivers for services like Uber and Lyft
SF News SF Woman And Boyfriend Assaulted By Fellow Lyft Line Passenger Everyone who loves the cheapness of Uber Pool and Lyft Line, take heed: You never know who you're sharing a car with. A cautionary tale came in via the tip line regarding a
SF News Another Worry For Uber: Suit Finds Yellow Cab Drivers Are Employees It's seeming more and more inevitable that the California courts will find that drivers for Uber and Lyft, and likely the independent contractors who do things like your Instacart shopping and Washio laundry
SF News Much To Uber's Dismay, SFMTA Approves Private Vehicle Restrictions For Market Street After three hours of public comment Tuesday, the board for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency unanimously approved a plan that would dramatically change how private vehicles use a significant stretch of Market
SF News Uber Drivers One Step Closer To Being Called Employees After CA Labor Commission Ruling While federal lawsuits are still pending against Uber and Lyft seeking to reclassify the companies' fleet of drivers as employees rather than independent contractors, a new ruling Tuesday by the California Labor Commission
