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Uber, a San Francisco based technology startup is innovating at the intersection of mobile technology, car transportation & logistics. The Uber experience captures the elite limo experiences and transforms it into an on demand service that fits an efficient and modern lifestyle.-
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Practical Perks: Workers Get Credits at Task Outsourcers
When Jamie Talbot's in-laws were in town recently and the family had trouble getting a taxi to take them to dinner, the software engineer pulled out his phone and summoned a town car. StumbleUpon, the website recommendation service where he works, picked up the tab.
The San Francisco startup offers its 75 employees a $100 monthly credit for personal car service Uber Technologies Inc., which allows people to order rides from their phone.
His in-laws "thought it was magic," says Mr. Talbot, who adds that he typically burns through his monthly allowance by calling for rides after late nights at the office when he "doesn't feel like waiting on the corner for 15 minutes" for a taxi.
In the arms race to offer more perks, Bay Area startups are turning to their peers: other fledgling companies like Uber, TaskRabbit Inc. and Postmates Inc., which help customers outsource tedious tasks like shipping a package or finding a ride. The outsourcing services are also catering to these startup clients with new corporate programs, as they try to add more customers and prove their staying power.
On Thursday, Uber plans to announce Uber Perks, a system that allows companies to buy Uber credits on behalf of their employees. The new offering is a response to companies like StumbleUpon and others that are already reimbursing employees for their use of the service. Uber has tested the new system with productivity-software startup Asana Inc. and Twilio Inc., which makes communications software.
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Lessons From Uber: Why Innovation And Regulation Don't Mix
At the end of a long trip last week, I took a taxi from a BART mass transit station in San Francisco’s East Bay back to my house a few miles away.
As the law requires, I could only choose the first cab in line at the taxi stand, which was filthy. The driver begrudgingly popped the trunk, which was full of garbage, so I could stow my own suitcase inside. Throughout the ride, the driver never stopped talking on a headset connected to his cell phone, blasting the radio in the back seat so I couldn’t overhear his private conversation.
The driver had no idea where he was going, even though we weren’t leaving the city in which he picked me up, and asked repeatedly for me to tell him how to get there, directions he ignored, nearly missing every turn. He said nothing when I paid him, and sped off before I’d made it to the curb.
The sad truth is that there’s nothing even slightly unusual about that experience, and certainly no point to complaining to the cab company or any regulator. I got to my destination, I was charged what the meter said, and no one was killed. In regulated industries, that constitutes success.
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Uber : Everyone's Private Driver
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Travis Kalanick: The Transportation Trustbuster
Travis Kalanick, co-founder of Uber, talks about how he's bringing limo service to the urban masses—and how he learned to beat the taxi cartel and city hall.
I walk to the security desk in the lobby of what could be any of this city's downtown office buildings filled with lawyers, architects and finance firms. "I'm here to see Travis Kalanick at Uber."
"You'll have to email him, they're very secretive. And take a seat."
I sit down and send a note to say I have arrived for the interview. Nearby, several middle-aged men, all wearing black suits, white shirts and ties, listen to a young guy in jeans, orange socks and sneakers. He is consulting a MacBook as he talks to them. "Your account is no longer active, due to quality concerns from negative feedback," he says to one of the men. "You've had 105 trips and your quality scores are low."
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Uber finally drives into Asia as the private car service begins testing in Singapore
Uber, the private car hire service that has taken the US by storm, has ramped up its global expansion plans after stepping into Asia for the first time after launching in Singapore. The move comes 11 months after CEO Travis Kalanick first raised the possibility of expanding into in Asia.
There have been rumors of Uber’s imminent launch into Singapore since October 2012, when tech blog SGE spotted the firm advertising for roles in the country, but now the company has officially announced its ‘soft’ launch. Uber has already welcomed its first two customers — food critic Dr. Lesley Tay and Paralympics medalist Theresa Goh — but regular folks can get a ride in the company’s recognizable black sedans by downloading the iOS and Android apps, or going to m.uber.com from a mobile device.
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Uber is a San Francisco-based company that has made calling a car convenient. A luxury town car experience is only a click away on the Uber app. All charges go directly to credit cards without cash or additional paperwork needed.
The company was founded in 2009 by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick. Uber’s pricing is similar to metered taxis. If the Uber car is travelling at a speed greater than 11 mph, the price is calculated on a distance basis. Otherwise, the price is calculated on a time basis. Prices are about 50% to 75% higher than prices charged by conventional taxicabs.
With almost $50 million in venture funding and due to its increasing demand, in July 2012, the company entered the UK market.
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Uber wins unanimously in Washington, DC, which is now rewriting its taxi law
Uber just won a showdown in Washington, D.C., one of the many cities where the traditional taxi and livery industry has revolted against the smartphone-native newcomer. After a drawn-out fight, the City Council unanimously passed the "Public Vehicle-for-Hire Innovation Amendment Act" this afternoon, which explicitly sanctions and regulates "digital dispatch" companies like Uber.
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David vs. Goliath: Uber takes on the taxi industry
What happens when a disruptive new technology takes on an established industry with strong political ties? Well, it’s about to get ugly.
We’ve all seen what new services like Craigslist and Google did to the newspaper industry.
Now, Travis Kalanick has a new phone app, Uber, that allows you to hire a private sedan with a click of a button — and the taxi industry is not happy about it. In this clip from his interview, Kalanick explains why the mounting lawsuits against his new company will inevitably fall away.
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David vs. Goliath: Uber takes on the taxi industry
What happens when a disruptive new technology takes on an established industry with strong political ties? Well, it’s about to get ugly.
We’ve all seen what new services like Craigslist and Google did to the newspaper industry.
Now, Travis Kalanick has a new phone app, Uber, that allows you to hire a private sedan with a click of a button — and the taxi industry is not happy about it. In this clip from his interview, Kalanick explains why the mounting lawsuits against his new company will inevitably fall away.
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Latoya Peterson has a great piece on the ways in which Uber has helped African-American passengers deal with the problems of hailing a cab while black.
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Over the last year, the phrase “Do you use Uber?” has become something of a litmus test for identifying someone’s level of coolness and connectivity. From late-night partygoers standing outside a nightclub to CEOs rushing to a board meeting, the simple transportation app has transitioned from newcomer into the ultimate status badge at lightning speed.
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Startup School - Travis Kalanick, Co-Founder and CEO at Uber
Travis Kalanick, Co-Founder and CEO at Uber shares his perspectives on startups and building great companies at Startup School 2012.
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Uber gives free ride to voters
Whoever said there's no such thing as a free ride hasn't seen Uber's latest promotion.
The car-service booking app, which came under fire last week for boosting prices in New York in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, says today that it's going to give free rides to voters tomorrow. It's pairing up with Rock the Vote to offer the promotion, accessed with code VOTEUBER.
There are a few catches to this offer, though. First of all, it's only open to people who've never used Uber before. And the free ride is only valid for a trip to or from a polling station and only during a city's specified voting hours tomorrow.
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How Uber is like Southwest Air: The art of reinventing an industry
“It was the worst of times. It was the best of times.” – Un-Dickens
There is a looming sense, a dark narrative that America’s best days are behind it. Why? A clash of civilizations. A sense in many pockets of the country that we are living in a time of anomie, inequity and worry.
Everywhere you look, there is disaster. At ground zero are the remnants of a 100-year flood known as the 2008 financial crisis; it’s a flood that never completely receded.
Put another way, whether you are politically right or left, believe in trickle down or trickle up, the hard truth is that there are few catalysts for significant job growth in America right now.
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Airbnb, Coursera and Uber: The rise of the disruption economy
We’re used to how the social web has disrupted media, but that same wave is moving through other industries, driven by startups like Airbnb, Coursera and Uber — and while regulators and entrenched industries are trying to fight it, the trend behind that wave is unstoppable.
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Uber And Trulia Partner To Give Prospective Renters Discounts On Car Rides
Disruptive, on-demand car service app Uber has been experimenting with creative ways of using its logistics infrastructure to add compelling services and experiences to its rides. We’ve seen seen the startup offer BBQ delivery, ice cream, buses with DJs and more. Today, Uber is debuting a partnership with real estate listings and search company Trulia to give prospective renters discounted rides.
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Uber: Silicon Valley App-Hailing Startup Takes On NYC Taxi Industry (Video)
San Francisco startup Uber's 'black-car' mobile app has been a big hit with riders and drivers. But the company is running into a snarl of traffic as it tries to extend its service to New York City taxi-cabs.
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On-Demand Car Service Uber Launches In Dallas And Strikes A Partnership Deal With Virgin America
On-demand car service Uber has launched in yet another new market today, opening up to everyone in Dallas. And it's also done a major deal with Virgin America, which could result in tons of new customers getting exposed to its service.
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Uber's Unsung Feature: A Future in Brands Rating Us?
Have you tried the new car service Uber? Now in more than seven cities, the "on-demand" car service lets you spontaneously book a ride with your smart phone. At almost the price of a NYC yellow cab, I’ve used Uber to go from the west side of Manhattan to a barbeque in Queens, get home from Newark Airport, get across town for a dinner, and shlep a bunch of bags in a rainstorm when the chance of hailing a taxi was dim.
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Uber Now Allows Users To Order Motorcycle Taxis In Paris
Uber has been steadily expanding its on-demand car service from black cars to SUVs, taxis, Hybrids, private drivers and more. Today, the company is announcing the addition of motorcycle taxis (aka moto taxis) in Paris. Starting Monday, Uber users in Paris will be able to order motorcycle taxis via the app. Similar to the way you can see taxis and black cars on the Uber app in Chicago, you’ll be able to see both the motorcycle and car icons on the map to determine the drivers closest to you.
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Uber Spins Its Latest Variation On Car Rides: DJs On Party Buses In Chicago
Uber is still growing its business as a disruptive car service app, but in the meantime it continues to push the envelope on what else it might eventually do with the logistics infrastructure it is also creating. The latest development comes by way of Chicago, where Uber is now laying on busses with DJs and drinks. Yes, it's bus bumping from Uber. Uberpalooza will feature DJs Dante, Bobbylite, Megan Taylor and Andrew Hayden, and is being run to coincide with the Lollapalooza music festival taking place in the Windy City this weekend. Those requesting the service will be charged $50 for 25 minutes or 5 miles-- whichever comes first (so pick your traffic-clogged streets of Chicago carefully). Up to 10 other people can join in on the party bus-- as long as all are over 21.
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Uber's on-demand ice cream truck visits The Verge
As a child, the ice cream truck never swings around the block right when you want it to. On-demand sedan service app Uber wants to alleviate your frustration, if only for a day, and only if you're in Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, or Washington DC. Uber partnered up with ice cream trucks in these cities and is delivering ice cream straight to wherever you are via its mobile app. The deal is $12 for five ice creams, and if you're in New York, that means five delectable sandwiches from Coolhaus.
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Uber thinks it can woo Philadelphians with luxury car service
It feels a bit indulgent. A little conspicuous. Show-offy even. But the founder of Uber, a luxury car service you can summon with a smartphone, thinks it will catch on in Philadelphia. The service costs almost twice as much as a metered cab. But its speed trumps a taxi. Tap your phone (no dialing, no explaining your location or destination, and no waiting longer than a matter of minutes) and a shiny black Lincoln Town Car arrives. The ride is smoother. The driver is chatty. The seats are plusher. The free water bottles for riders are cold. And if you want to see and be seen, it's a lot more attractive having a driver open the door for you than stepping out of a yellow Crown Vic.
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Uber bringing on-demand ice cream trucks to select cities on Friday only
Uber's app normally lets users hire cars from their phone, but on Friday you'll be able to hire something much more fun ? an ice cream truck. As a way of celebrating National Ice Cream Month, an ice cream cone icon is being added to the app, which lets you request an ice cream truck to a specific location. You'll be given a timeframe for when the truck should arrive, and your credit card will be billed $12 for a bundle of five ice creams. What kind of frozen treats will be available depends on your location ? the trucks will be in Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, and Washington DC ? but Uber promises that, no matter where you are, "it's all gooooooood."
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Uber adding low-cost hybrid cars to its luxury fleet
Uber, the app that lets you hire a luxury cab from your phone, is adding hybrid cars that will cost up to 35 percent less than its current fleet. The new service, called Uber X, will still be around 10 to 25 percent more expensive than a regular taxi, but far cheaper than the 40 to 100 percent premium that customers are charged for a traditional town car. Travis Kalanick, the company's chief executive, tells The New York Times that the hybrid cars are "the first big step Uber is taking to go to the masses." The company already offers a low-cost cab service in Chicago, but it does look as though Uber X will be a more widespread initiative.
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Uber Hires European Kees Koolen As COO, To Help It Scale Globally
Car service dispatch company Uber has hired a European Chief Operating Officer, making the announcement today at LeWeb London. Kees Koolen, who scaled booking.com to $9 billion in revenue during his tenure, will now be ?the number two? in the company, next to CEO Travis Kalanick. Koolen, who is from Amsterdam, will be based half of the time out of Uber HQ in San Francisco and half the time will be traversing the globe spearheading the startup's international expansion.
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Uber Learns To Drive On The Left, Soft Launches In London
Uber, the breakthrough car service app with big ambitions to do much more, is now making its way to international markets: today the car service company kicked off its London operation with a soft launch, just in time to start prepping for the summer tourist rush and the visitor onslaught also known as the Summer Olympics.
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Stop Hailing A Taxi And Come Ride With Uber CEO Travis Kalanick
A new pack of startups are giving everyday people a lifestyle upgrade. Want a personal assistant? Sign up for Fancy Hands and you can have an army of them starting at $25 per month. How about a personal chef? Call up Kitchit.
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Uber private driver service officially launches in Philadelphia, 11th city expansion
It's tough to conjecture how San Francisco-based black car taxi service Uber will fair in Philadelphia from a five-block ride to a lunchtime launch event, but CEO and cofounder Travis Kalanick is excited about the challenge.
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When you absolutely need a limousine in five minutes
A company whose smartphone app allows users to summon a limousine within five minutes is officially launching its service in Philadelphia today.
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After A Month Of Stealthy Testing, Uber Officially Launches In Philadelphia
It's been just over a month since on-demand car service Uber announced that they had soft launched in Philadelphia, and as usual that time has been spent in quiet contemplation while they worked out the specifics like pricing and local fleet operations.
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Uber Feels The Brotherly Love, Begins Testing Its On-Demand Car Service In Philadelphia
I use Uber all the time when I travel, and it's always sort of a bummer to come back home knowing it'll be weeks before I get to ride in another Uber towncar. Well, that's thankfully no longer the case-- according to a new post on the company's official blog, Uber has just soft-launched in Philadelphia and now has a small crew of their tell-tale black cars cruising around the city.
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Uber Experiments With Lower-Priced Taxis In Chicago Through Newly Launched Labs Group, "Garage"
Back when Uber launched in San Francisco, it was heralded as a service that would disrupt the taxi industry by providing black cars on-demand via mobile phones. Thus far, the service has gained a loyal following, and expanded to a number of cities including Seattle, New York, Paris, and Chicago. Today, we're seeing a possible evolution of Uber with a new experiment in Chicago.
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Where I live in Washington, D.C., about a mile and a half north of the Capitol, you can sometimes get a taxi in two minutes flat. And sometimes, after spending 20 minutes wistfully waving two fingers in the air while the traffic hurtles past, you have to give up and trudge to the train. Why can’t we fix this? As it turns out, a small but rapidly growing business is trying. One Friday night in December, my husband and I drove over to Adams Morgan for some karaoke with friends. “You drove?” a friend who lives near us asked incredulously. “I just used Uber.”
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Uber Simplifies Sign Up Process: Just Hold Up Your Credit Card and You're In!
On-demand black car service Uber is making it easier for new users to sign up for rides, thanks to its newly-announced Card.io integration. For those unfamiliar with the mobile payments startup Card.io (a competitor with Jumio), it's a mobile toolkit that allows app publishers to speed up the process of collecting users' credit card information. Instead of requesting users to fill out forms by typing in their credit card details on their phone's tiny keyboards, Card.io allows you to simply hold up your credit card in front of the phone's camera. The app then "sees" the card, reads the numbers and enters the information for you.
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Travis Kalanick Says Uber Will Drive Into London Before The Olympics
Uber has built a business out of being, in the words of its founder and head Travis Kalanick, everyone's private driver. But while the company is continuing to expand the number of cities where it operates, it is also building out a network to extend beyond vehicles and taxing people around, Kalanick said today.
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What's next for Uber? More cities, more choice and a delivery service?
Uber keeps rolling along, introducing its metro car services into new cities around the world. Following a big $32 million funding round late last year, the company has big plans not just for international expansion, but for new potential features. Sunday I sat down with Uber CEO Travis Kalanick to learn about what the company is up to.
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Uber Providing On Demand BBQ To SXSW Attendees
With all of the hubbub surrounding which mobile application will win SXSW this week, one company has been neglected, and it appears that they will be winning the whole shebang. The company? Uber. Yes, the car company. The winning strategy? On demand BBQ.
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Why Uber's data fascinates a neuroscientist
Matching cars for hire with people who want to get places may not be rocket science. But a background in neuroscience couldn't hurt. Where 2012 speaker Bradley Voytek has taken his experience as a neuroscience researcher to buzzy car-service company Uber, where he sees similarities between the connections in an urban landscape and those in the brain. Voytek's role with Uber involves figuring out how to make sense of and how to apply the massive amounts of data that the car service and its customers generate. Wrangling that data can help Uber match up cars and passengers more quickly-- and has some other promising possibilities, too.
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But while the company most recently has been testing in L.A. and Toronto, Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick has said it soon expects to tackle a much bigger market: Asia.
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Uber Gives D.C. Residents Presidential Treatment
After running into some early opposition in the nation's capital, Uber, a technology company that allows users to order a car service from a smartphone app, applied the full-court press in Washington, D.C., on President's Day.
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Uber Testing Begins In LA & Toronto
Uber, the fast-growing on-demand car service that lets you request a ride at any time using SMS or the company's iPhone and Android apps, has seen its fair share of struggles in providing a disruptive alternative to cab services. Uber has continued rolling on in spite of it, raising $32 million in December from Menlo Ventures, Jeff Bezos, and Goldman Sachs among others. The startup has also continued pushing forward with its national (and international) service, recently launching or soft-launching in Chicago, Washington D.C., and Paris.
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How Uber Is Launching In Its Newest City, Washington, DC
And that's how I discovered that Uber is launching in Washington, DC. Today, it's announcing to the capital that it's ready for business, having spent the last month recruiting drivers, testing routes and everything else that goes into opening up in a new area. I recently talked to Rachel Holt, who's leading Uber DC, to get some more details about how the company has worked out this expansion.
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Uber Gets $32M From Menlo Ventures, Jeff Bezos And Goldman Sachs
Just 18 months into operations, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced on stage at Le Web that the car service company has closed $32 million in Series B funding lead by Shervin Pishevar's Menlo Ventures, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Goldman Sachs. Following on will be existing investors Benchmark Capital and a who's who of angel investors. With regards to this round's valuation amount, Kalanick told me, "We sold very valuable shares."
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Uber Says Goodbye To Its Fat Red Logo And Gets A New Fresh Look
Uber, the personal car service and app, got a brand spanking new look today. It traded the fat [ugly] red logo for something a little bit more sophisticated. Uber says it changed its look partially to prevent trademark infringement trouble as it launches globally. It's launching internationally this week.
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Received $37M Series B Funding
Participation Menlo Ventures, Jeff Bezos, Goldman Sachs, Benchmark Capital, Gary Vaynerchuk, CrunchFund
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick on How He Failed and Lived to Tell the Tale
The most entertaining presentation at the recent FailCon conference in San Francisco came from Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, who spelled out the many hurdles he faced at his last company, the peer-to-peer content delivery provider Red Swoosh.
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"Spotted! Secret Ubers On The Streets Of Seattle"
It’s testament to the enthusiasm of the Uber fan base that we’ve gotten multiple tips this afternoon about the service being live in Seattle. Via a quick phone call with Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, I’ve confirmed that Uber has indeed soft-launched in the Pacific Northwest’s largest city, with an initial three black cars in its test fleet.
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Ticket To Ride: Uber Testing Reduced Pricing In San Francisco
Let's face it. While Uber is generally awesome and is on track to disrupt the taxi business, the service is still too expensive for many consumers to use on a regular basis. The company dropped its prices in June after San Francisco-based taxis went on strike, but this was temporary. Today, Uber revealed that it is testing reduced rates in its San Francisco market.
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Uber Calls TechCrunch's Bluff, Opens Actual Lemonade Stand
Not enough startups have a good sense of humor. We all know Groupon is one of them, and Uber is following suit. Rather than flame me for my snarky early morning comparison of Uber's immediate business ambitions to a lemonade stand, the company has penned a fake (we hope) post about its new business line– lemonade stands that track your movements as you get closer to them.
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Car Service Startup Uber Scoops Up The Glee Cast
Uber, the personal driver startup in San Francisco and New York City, is rapidly gaining popularity. We're told one wealthy songwriter in New York City spends $1,500 per week on Uber!
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San Francisco Taxis Going On Strike Tomorrow, Uber Taking Advantage With 50% Rate Cut
If there's one thing you can legitimately knock Uber for, it's that the service is still too expensive for most people to use on a regular basis. Taxis, for all their problems, are still significantly cheaper. But not tomorrow.
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Uber Out-Maths Google on NYC ETAs
Most of the big social media and app companies are pretty light on hard-core technology. Happy to stand on the shoulders of the tech giants that came before, many focus instead on features, design and UI. This enrages the kind of hardcore math nerds that used to rule the Valley.
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Uber CEO: I Think I've Got 20,000 Years Of Jail Time In Front Of Me
Today at our TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky took the stage with our own Erick Schonfeld to talk about the disruption they're offering up in their markets. Notably, both have products that are so disruptive that they have legal challenges from not just other companies, but governments (on the city and state level).
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Uber Goes Breakers To Bay This Weekend With Unlimited Gatorade And Jack Daniels
As everyone in the Bay Area will know, this Sunday is the annual Bay to Breakers run/boozefest. The 12k run normally goes from the bay (in the city) to the breakers (at the ocean), hence the name. But Uber is going to do the opposite.
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Uber CEO On His "Official" NYC Launch: "Congestion Is A B-tch" (Video And Heatmaps)
About a month ago, I was one of the very first people to ride an Uber car in New York City a few hours after the company put a few test cars out on the streets. It was supposed to be a secret, but I found out about it, and texted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick while I was in the car. Last night was Uber's “official” launch in New York City with about 100 cars which can be summoned via an iPhone app. Kalanick spent some of his recently raised $11 million to host a fancy dinner at Del Posto.
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With a Start-Up Company, a Ride Is Just a Tap of an App Away
Uber, a start-up based in San Francisco, offers a cellphone application that is aimed at making using a car service quick and painless.
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Startups : Travis Kalanick of Uber - TWiST #180
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UberGenius: Uber Is Taking Control of SXSW Pedicabs
San Francisco is a ghost town right now. It seems as if the entire city has packed up and headed to Austin, Texas for SXSW. The conference was too big two years ago. Then it got bigger last year. And this year it's expected to be significantly bigger once again. I'm leaving tomorrow, and I'm scared.
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A Week With Uber And This Blogger Is Totally Hooked
I just finished a week long trip to San Francisco. This time I didn't rent a car, meaning I didn't have to deal with the rental cost, gas cost, parking and the delays in shuttling back and forth to the airport car rental area – usually at least $500 for the week and sometimes much more. I just used Uber instead, a service that launched last summer that lets you call up a black car service from your mobile phone.
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Uber Taps Into Google And Facebook Rivalry For Palo Alto Launch
Looks like Uber is putting the $11 million dollars it raised on Valentine's Day to good use, expanding its car service into Palo Alto officially, with one catch. The Uber marketing department has apparently taken its cue from Charlie Sheen and cooked up a wacky stunt contest between Google and Facebook employees. What's even stranger is that the company does not actually have any marketing staff, yet keeps coming up with this kind of stuff.
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Huge Vote Of Confidence: Uber Raises $11 million From Benchmark Capital
Uber, a young startup that let's people book a black car service on the fly via their mobile app, has closed an $11 million round valuing the company at $49 million pre-money valuation, $60 million post-money, we've confirmed from sources. Benchmark Capital led the round, with participation from previous investors. Benchmark partner Bill Gurley joins Uber's board of directors.
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Received $11M Venture Round Funding
Participation Benchmark Capital, Alfred Lin, Founder Collective, First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital, Scott Banister
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Uber CEO "Super Pumped" About Being Replaced By Founder
Know about Uber yet? It's one of those startups that I've been fascinated with since I first heard about it last summer. It lets you call for black car service via a mobile application, watch it come to you via GPS, and all charges are automatically billed to your credit card.
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Hitching A Ride With UberCab, 5 Minutes With The CEO (Video)
Less than four months old, UberCab's mobile app for on-demand car service has become something of a breakout hit in San Francisco this summer.
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UberCab Closes Uber Angel Round
UberCab, an app that lets users request a car service to pick them up wherever they are right now, has closed a $1.25 million angel financing round. First Round Capital led the deal, and partner Rob Hayes joins UberCab's board of directors. Lowercase Capital and Founder Collective also participated, as did more than a dozen other individual angel investors.
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UberCab Raises $1.25M to End Your Futile Search for Taxis
UberCab, an iPhone application that helps you call for a private driver, has raised $1.25 million from well-known backers — including “super angel” Chris Sacca, who previously tweeted about liking the service.
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Received $1.25M Angel Funding
Participation First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital, Founder Collective, David G. Cohen, Mitch Kapor, Alfred Lin, Scott Banister, Cyan Banister, Babak Nivi, Naval Ravikant, Shawn Fanning
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What If UberCab Pulls An Airbnb? Taxi Business Could (Finally) Get Some Disruption
If you live in San Francisco and you haven't tried UberCab yet, do it. The service, which we first covered in July, eliminates everything bad about a taxi experience. In my order, that's flagging one down, finding the cash to pay, and being in a sometimes disgusting car. For bonus points, I always enjoy negotiating whether or not I get air conditioning in the summer in NY.
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Received $200k Seed Funding
Participation Garrett Camp, Travis Kalanick
