Lyft wants to make life a little easier on its drivers. Today, the company announced two new features for its Lyft Driver app — scheduled pickups and power zones. The popular ride-hailing app recently debuted a separate app dedicated to drivers, as opposed to building the driver-facing functionality into the primary app for customers seeking …
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You know what it’s like: You wait ages for a bus, and then a free one comes along. At least it did for us on Tuesday. The Citymapper smart bus is no normal London bus, and not just because it’s green instead of red. The most unusual thing about it was that people — strangers, no less — were breaking …
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If you’re visiting China but don’t speak the language, you may be relieved to hear that you can hail a cab just as easily as the locals now. Didi Chuxing, a China-based rival to Uber’s ride-hailing service, on Monday rolled out an English version of its app in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The company said the feature will be introduced …
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Did Uber break the law by collecting information on users’ iPhones to identify the devices even after people had deleted the Uber app? That’s what a consumer advocacy group asked the US Federal Trade Commission to find out in a complaint sent Thursday (PDF). Consumer Watchdog told the FTC in its complaint that this kind of tracking violates federal privacy …
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If your inbox is out of control with hundreds of newsletters, you’re not alone. The service Unroll.me was born from this rapidly growing problem. Once you connect your Gmail account, it skims your email for newsletters to allow you to either unsubscribe from them or roll all of them up into a single digest email. As it turns out, Unroll.me …
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You know what they say: If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. Now some are realising the price they paid for using free inbox clean-up service Unroll.me, after the company opened up about its practice of selling users’ email data. Unroll.me promises to organise your inbox by sorting subscription emails and letting you unsubscribe from the …
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Now playing: Watch this: Uber CEO fights with driver over low fares 2:11 There’s no shortage of negative news about ride-hailing company Uber, from sexual harassment allegations to a dashcam video of the CEO telling off a driver concerned about falling fares to the DeleteUber hashtag that sprang from the firm’s response to President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. And there’s …
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You just can’t stop Uber, as Taiwan has just discovered. The global ride-hailing service will relaunch its operations in the nation this Thursday after exiting two months ago, reports the Central News Agency. Uber ceased operations in Taiwan in February after it was dealt with penalties amounting to nearly $36 million under a new law barring unlicensed taxi services. Taiwan’s …
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Lyft is taking its idea of carpooling one step further. The ride-hailing company said Thursday that it’s testing a new feature called “Shuttle” in San Francisco and Chicago. Shuttle lets drivers travel along a set route during commuting hours, picking up and dropping off passengers along the way. Sounds a lot like a bus, right? The main difference is that …
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Google provided some details on its latest mobile operating software, currently dubbed Android O. The software, coming out later this year, will include picture-in-picture, so a user can watch a video on one app while bouncing around to other apps, as well as improved battery life. For now, we still have to guess what the O will stand for. That …
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