Documents show Uber used shady marketing tactics to aggressively target Lyft drivers
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Recently, CNN shared data from Lyft that showed Uber had ordered and canceled over 5,500 Lyft rides over the space of ten months. After swiftly denying the rumors, Uber claimed that Lyft has been using the exact same tactics on its service, cancelling 12,900 rides. When Uber denied the claims, it said that they were “patently false” because its riders and drivers recruit users_rather than the company itself and that it doesn’t cancel rides. It appears that Uber doesn’t_intentionally cancel rides, but it does do something worse._Brand Ambassadors that_are hired into the company under the idea that they will be...
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Uber is sabotaging Lyft through dodgy recruitment tactics
Uber is now in over 200 cities worldwide
When it’s not using the awkwardly named SLOG initiative to aggressively recruit drivers from Lyft, Uber is expanding into new cities. Today it announced it has drivers in 205 cities around the globe. The taxi-driver-with-an-app service_is now available in 24 new cities including Akron, Ohio; Tallahassee, Florida;_Wichita, Kansas_and_Wellington, New Zealand. Uber claims that in the US it now covers 55 percent of the population.
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Uber banned across the whole of Germany, appeal likely
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Car-hailing service Uber has been banned from operating its services anywhere in Germany, according to German newspaper Der Spiegel_today. The report says that a Frankfurt court has blocked Uber from operating as it does not hold the necessary paperwork for carrying out_a taxi service in the country – an official permit under the Passenger Transport Act is required. The decision follows a temporary injunction in Berlin that lifted four days after being issued. As was the case in Berlin, Uber is free to appeal the court’s decision, but the ramifications are more serious this time around as the ban applies...
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German court bans ride-sharing service Uber across the country
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