SF News Taxi Drivers and Cab Companies Are Escalating Their Losing Battle Against Uber and Lyft A recent estimate puts the dent that rideshare companies have put in the San Francisco taxi industry at 65 percent and that just in the last fifteen months. Though there has been much
SF News Lyft Kills Their Lyft Plus Program, Drivers Stuck With SUVs They Don't Want Remember how, just back in April, Lyft decided to launch a luxury SUV service in order to compete with Uber SUV? Well, it seems it didn't go so well, and the Chronicle reports
SF News Are Startups In The '1099 Economy' Taking Advantage Of Contract Workers? There’s a long read in New York Magazine today about how well-funded startups are using contract workers to keep costs low, a trend called the “1099 economy.” Reading with the caveat that
SF News Uber's And Sidecar's New Carpooling Services Are Apparently Illegal Ten days after San Francisco Uber users received emails welcoming them to uberPOOL, a recently-launched service from the transportation service intended to allow "Uber riders to share trips with another rider along their
SF News Uber Building Global Headquarters In Mission Bay On Former Salesforce Parcels News broke on Friday that the Bay Area's arguably fastest-growing enterprise, Uber, has inked a deal for a huge new global headquarters in Mission Bay, on land that was formerly part of the
SF News Insurance Bill For Uber/Lyft Drivers Passes California Senate A compromise reached between California legislators and ride-share companies Uber and Lyft this week suggests that insurance companies may be asked to create a new type of policy specifically for peer-to-peer ride-sharing. As
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Exposed Uber’s aggressive tactics to squelch Lyft and other competitors have been exposed in an in-depth story that includes interviews with current and former contractors and internal documents. [The Verge] Bay Area Bike
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Uber Testing Lunch Delivery In L.A., Corner Store Delivery in D.C. As predicted last year, Uber is branching out into businesses other than on-demand black cars and ride-sharing, and the first concepts are UberFresh, a lunch-delivery service currently being tested in Santa Monica, and
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ebola In Sacramento? A patient who visited a West African country sometime in the last month has been put in isolation in a Sacramento hospital with some sort of symptoms, but despite the media freakout public
SF News Have You Hopped Into A Stranger's Car Mistaking It For An Uber? The epidemic of UberX/Lyft usage in our cities has led to the unfortunate trend of people jumping into the backseat of any idling vehicle that they think should be their ride home.
SF News Uber Charged People $300 to $500 To Get Out Of Outside Lands Mess Reports are flowing in today from disgruntled Uber customers leaving Outside Lands who, under the 5-fold surge pricing we mentioned earlier, ended up with receipts for in-city trips mind you that totalled anywhere
SF News Uber Driver Suffers Seizure, Slams Into Pedestrian And Three Parked Cars Days after an Uber driver suffered a seizure and slammed into a pedestrian, the "ridesharing" company has announced that the ailing driver won't be driving for them until he's checked by a doctor.
SF News Uber Drivers 'Cheating' The App To Gain Fares At SFO [Updated] Update: CBS San Francisco reports that Uber is disabling the illegal app and passengers affected by it will receive a refund. We also have new information from Chris, the driver who alerted the
SF News DeSoto Cab Wants To Turn Its Taxis Into Limo Sedans To Survive Among Uber, Lyft Of all the taxi companies pissed at how their business is suffering at the hands of Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and others, DeSoto Cab Co.’s president Hansu Kim has been one of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Uber Delivering On-Demand Ice Cream Today They've done kittens, and tamales, and DeLorean rides. Now once again today, Uber is bringing back their two-year-old ice-cream-truck-hailing promotion for a few hours, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Look
SF News Video: The War Between Taxis And 'Rideshares' When filmmaker and SF State student Max Maddox started seeing "so many mustached cars drive by," he was led to create "Taxi 2.0," a short documentary film "not just about the heated
SF News Angry Uber Drivers Rally Against The Future Remember when the argument was cabs vs Uber? Well, there's a new player in the game, and Uber's drivers sure don't like it. Sometimes the fall from the cutting edge can be the
SF News Uber Valued at $18.2 Billion, Now One Of The Biggest Companies In Bay Area With a new valuation on Friday that came with a $1.2 billion influx of cash, Uber is now second only to Facebook in terms of the pre-IPO investment sum that it has
SF News UberX Driver With Priors Facing Battery Charges A complaint that began on Twitter, in which an UberX customer claims he was verbally and physically assaulted by a driver in November, has now been escalated to the District Attorney's office. George
SF News DeSoto Cab Head Says S.F. Cab Industry Could Collapse In 18 Months At the hands of Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar, yellow (and other color) taxis could be kaput in San Francisco in a year and a half, at least according to the president of one
SF News Uber Defends Their Non-Involvement In Death Of Six-Year-Old Sofia Liu Last week, Uber filed its defense in the wrongful death lawsuit of six-year-old Sofia Liu, who was struck and killed on New Year's Eve by driver Syed Muzzafar while he was allegedly searching
SF News Lyft To Start Offering 'Luxury' Rides In White Ford Explorers This week Lyft is set to start testing a new, upscale SUV service in San Francisco in a clear bid to compete with Uber's more luxurious chauffeuring options. The first half dozen SUV
SF News UberX Rides Get $1 More Expensive Just last night I noticed that UberX wanted to charge me a new $1 "Safe Rides Fee" on top of the usual fare. I clicked OK, because I needed to get home, and
SF News Now There's A Startup For Renting Cars To Uber And Lyft Drivers In the disruptive, circular world of the sharing economy, someone was inevitably going to find a way to sell resources back to people who want to get in on the action. Enter Breeze,
SF News Seattle Votes To Curb Number Of Ride-Share Drivers Following in the footsteps of places like Paris, where taxi unions have a stronger foothold, the Seattle City Council voted last night to cap the number of Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar drivers in
