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The incident happened in Assam where an Uber driver tried to ram his car over a couple of journalists. The cab driver has been now arrested by the police of Assam. The cab driver wanted the payment in cash but the payment method was already set to online so it could not be changed. When denied, the driver got aggressive and tried to hit the journalists. Here is how the driver tried to run over @MohdAbuzarCh @Uber_India https://t.co/gl4XN2pclT pic.twitter.com/p7cz6KwqdH — Asad Ashraf (@Asad_Ashraf88) May 28, 2022 The…

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In recent online slide presentations, blog posts and social-media threads, venture-capital doyens including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Craft Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Y Combinator are telling the founders that they need to take emergency action for what could be the sharpest turn in more than a decade. Their advice includes cutting costs, preserving cash and jettisoning hopes that hedge funds or other investors will swoop in with big checks. “The boom times of the last decade are…

How can Uber deliver food and always arrive on time or a few minutes before? How do they match riders to drivers so that you can *always* find a Uber? All that while also managing all the drivers?! Well, we will answer exactly that in the video... This is the first time we have seen a deep learning algorithm for estimating arrival times using deep learning. The video was created by Louisbouchard.ai, a new AI application explained weekly to your emails!Louis BouchardI explain Artificial Intelligence terms and news to…

Michelle Ma / Protocol: Layoffs.fyi data: 60 tech companies cut 16,000+ jobs in May 2022; Microsoft, Nvidia, Lyft, Snap, Uber, Coinbase, Salesforce, Meta, and Twitter slowed hiring — What goes up must come down. — High-flying startups with record valuations, huge hiring goals and ambitious expansion plans … Michelle Ma / Protocol: Layoffs.fyi data: 60 tech companies cut 16,000+ jobs in May 2022; Microsoft, Nvidia, Lyft, Snap, Uber, Coinbase, Salesforce, Meta, and Twitter…

Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: YipitData: average Uber and Lyft fares in the US hit a record high in April, as they drew ~20% fewer riders and 35% fewer trips in Q1 2022 compared to Q1 2019 — The companies are cutting costs, bringing back cheaper rides and looking for new ways to woo drivers Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: YipitData: average Uber and Lyft fares in the US hit a record high in April, as they drew ~20% fewer riders and 35% fewer trips in Q1 2022 compared to Q1 2019 …

Apple, Amazon, AMZN 3.66% Microsoft, Google and Facebook FB 1.83% parent Meta Platforms have spent years battling for engineers and other skilled workers with each other and the rest of the tech landscape—including legions of cash-drunk startups dangling stock that might someday spell megawealth. Now, as the tech industry is hit by tumbling stock prices and recalibrated financial…

Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyftare recalibrating to a new reality: Investors are increasing the pressure to rein in hefty losses, riders are taking fewer trips as fares rise and drivers are still in short supply. The average Uber and Lyft fare hit a record high in the U.S. last month, according to market-research firm YipitData, driven by the labor shortage and high gas prices. The companies collectively drew at least 20% fewer riders and posted 35% fewer trips in the first quarter than three years earlier, according to…

Lyft Inc. LYFT -17.27% will slow hiring, reduce the budgets of some of its departments and grant new stock options to some employees to make up for its eroding share price, joining rival Uber Technologies Inc. UBER -9.38% in outlining cuts as investor optimism cools on tech stocks.President John Zimmer announced the measures Tuesday in a memo to staff. “It’s clear from our discussions…

Uber has long faced opposition from taxi drivers. Now it wants to partner with the industry.Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesUber has signed a partnership with IT Taxi, the largest taxi dispatch service in Italy, in a tie-up aimed at boosting the company's presence in the country.The deal will allow IT Taxi's 12,000 taxi drivers to accept trips through the Uber app, covering 90 cities across the country, according to a statement released Tuesday.It comes as Uber and other ride-hailing apps grapple with an ongoing…