Showing posts with label taxi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label taxi. Show all posts
Monday, 5 August 2019

4.7m people in the UK work in the gig economy

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"Last month, new data on the U.K.’s gig economy surfaced from the University of Hertfordshire, concluding that the number of gig worker...
Monday, 6 August 2018

Uber has completed 10bn trips

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"Uber has reached a major milestone: completing more than 10 billion trips. “We’ve hit some pretty exciting milestones together in the...
Tuesday, 17 October 2017

UberEats is bigger than Uber in several markets

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"UberEats stands out even from the rest of the company’s fast-growing — and unprofitable — business. The delivery service, available in...
Monday, 4 September 2017

Uber drivers in the US received $50m in tips in 6 months

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"Uber has made some changes to its driver experience as part of its ongoing “180 Days of Change” campaign. Uber introduced the 180-days...
Tuesday, 18 April 2017

$20bn of rides were booked through Uber in 2016

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"The ride-hailing giant more than doubled gross bookings in 2016 to $20 billion, according to financial information Uber shared with Bl...
Monday, 3 April 2017

Human drivers need to take control of Uber's self-driving cars about once per mile

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"Human drivers were forced to take control of Uber's self-driving cars about once per mile driven in early March during testing in ...
Wednesday, 25 January 2017

More than half of Uber driving is done by people who work more than 35 hours a week

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"More than 1.5 million people all over the world drive for Uber. The company has won many court battles over its classification of them...
Wednesday, 21 December 2016

Uber 'lost more than $2.2bn in 9 months in 2016'

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"Even as Uber Technologies Inc. exited China, the company's financial loss has remained eye-popping. In the first nine months of th...
Monday, 7 November 2016

Uber has 40m monthly active riders, who spend an average of $50 per month each

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"Travis Kalanick says his drivers’ license is expired — though, of course he has to say that. But in Kalanick’s future, with a fleet of...
Wednesday, 27 July 2016

It took Uber six years to make the first billion rides; the second billion took 6 months

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"It took Uber six years to complete a billion rides around Christmas 2015. Now, just six months later, the company has announced that t...
Monday, 16 May 2016

Taxi rides with China's Didi rose 20-fold in the year to March 2016

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"China’s homegrown Uber arch-rival, Didi Kuaidi, is still seeing exponential growth nearly four years after the app launched. The numb...
Monday, 11 January 2016

Didi Kuaidi completed 1.43bn rides in 2015

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"Chinese ridesharing and taxi app Didi Kuaidi announced a pretty startling statistic today: the company completed 1.43 billion rides in...
Monday, 7 September 2015

Using a mix of public transport and Uber can be cheaper than owning a car

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"Consider a household that makes about 2,000 vehicle trips per year, in line with the national average. (If that sounds like a lot of t...
Monday, 20 July 2015

Uber taxis are the most-expensed form of ground transportation in the US

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"In the three months ended in June, Uber overtook taxis as the most expensed form of ground transportation, according to expense manage...
Monday, 18 May 2015

There are 14,000 Uber drivers in London

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"[Boris] Johnson’s move follows a sharp rise in the number of minicabs looking for customers in the capital: numbers have increased by ...
Tuesday, 21 April 2015

There are more than 20,000 Uber drivers in San Francisco

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"At Uber we are thrilled to be playing a role in unlocking economic opportunity and empowering entrepreneurs across the Bay Area, and w...
Friday, 13 March 2015

Uber has 160,000 active drivers in the US

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"Ride-hailing company Uber announced plans Tuesday to create 1 million jobs for women as drivers in the next five years — offering a ra...
Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Uber is generating 50,000 jobs every month globally

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Just one of the stats on Google Ventures' end of 2014 review or their portfolio companies, December 2014
Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Uber Drivers need to provide an average of 60 rides per week to make $50,000 p.a.

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"After looking at the numbers, NerdWallet had a few big takeaways: Based on their data, drivers can, on average, make more working for...
Monday, 24 November 2014

Uber is active in 240 cities in 46 countries

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Source:   BusinessWeek, 20th November 2014 Note - it's currently adding a new city every 2 days