Category: Uber

Due to a combination of cultural differences and regulations designed specifically to hinder foreign companies, it’s very difficult for Western companies to operate in China. That notorious difficulty wasn’t enough to stop Uber from trying to establish itself as China’s dominant ride-sharing service, however, but despite the company’s extensive efforts, it failed. Uber announced on Monday… Continue reading Not even Uber was able to succeed in the Chinese market

When you’re the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving, it becomes necessary to invest in things like public transportation in order to ensure that half the adult population isn’t forced to ask for rides in order to travel long distances. Obviously a more simple solution would be to just allow women… Continue reading Uber has received a $3.5 billion investment from Saudi Arabia

Due to popular demand, Uber launched a new feature called Family Profiles back in March, which are joint profiles that allow multiple users to bill their rides to the same payment card. With these profiles, family members and close friends can pay for each other’s rides when necessary, and Uber has since expanded on this feature with a sub-feature… Continue reading Uber now lets family member track each other’s rides

Hearing that Uber is encroaching on your territory is enough to make most companies a little nervous, and I don’t think GrubHub is an exception. The Chicago-based startup generated more than $1 billion in sales for restaurants across the country last year, but the launch of UberEATS might take a few chunks out of those sales. Well,… Continue reading Uber’s food delivery service is starting to expand

Uber is currently engaged in a war of attrition with China’s largest ride-sharing company, Didi Kuaidi, and it’s costing the company more than $1 billion a year, according to CEO Travis Kalanick. We’ve known that Uber is losing a lot of money in China, but we didn’t know how much until now. According to Kalanick, Didi Kuaidi is… Continue reading Uber is losing more than $1 billion every year in China

Be prepared to see a new icon the next time you update your Uber app, because the company announced on Tuesday that it’s rebranding itself. Not much is changing aside from the app icon and logo, but the changes being made to the icon are actually pretty interesting, because while the Uber logo in the icon… Continue reading Uber is rebranding itself with a dynamic app icon and a new logo

Uber’s experimental food-delivery service is finally ready for a full-scale launch in the United States, and that should make GrubHub extremely worried. Known as UberEATS, the new service will be expanding to ten major cities (Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington) by March, according to the Wall Street Journal, and just… Continue reading Uber is ready for a full-scale launch of its food-delivery service

Have you ever had trouble entertaining yourself while you’re getting a ride through Uber? If so, then you’re not alone, and Uber wants to make your rides a little more interesting. On Tuesday, the company announced Uber Trip Experiences, a new way for app developers to integrate their apps into Uber’s app. With it, third-party apps… Continue reading Uber wants you to do more than just sit around during rides

Uber proved long ago that it’s more than just a ride-sharing company. It’s now more of a crowd-sourced transportation platform that transports both goods and people in a variety of ways, but it still limits itself to local transportation. Even that limitation might be done away with, however, as the company was recently awarded a patent for a new… Continue reading Uber wants to help users plan their next long-distance trip