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www.fastcompany.com
3 months ago
Startup companies

Uber just posted its first annual profit as a public company

Uber reported its first full year of profit as a public company.
Uber expects continued growth in the first quarter of 2024. [ more ]
www.cbc.ca
3 months ago
Canada news

Uber's new Toronto ad campaign aims aims to tackle 'misinformation,' but not all are convinced | CBC News

Uber Canada has launched an advertising campaign to clarify misconceptions about the ride-sharing service in Toronto.
The campaign aims to address concerns about a potential reinstatement of a ride-share cap by the city council. [ more ]
Chicago Tribune
3 months ago
Chicago

Letters: Uber and Lyft drivers need safety protections. The City Council can make that happen.

Driving for Uber and Lyft in Chicago can be dangerous, with recent incidents of harassment, attacks, and even shootings of drivers.
Ride-sharing drivers in Chicago earn an average of $13 per hour, which is less than the city's minimum wage. [ more ]
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Patently-O
1 year ago
Intellectual property law

Standing to Challenge Inventorship

by Dennis Crouch
Krzysztof Sywula's story has some thematic elements of the Netflix Glass Onion show.As he tells it, Sywula was at the Santorini Island Grill with Alexis DaCosta & Vincent Coletti talking about creating an improved app for ride sharing.During one of the meetings, Sywula apparently sketched-out a diagram on a napkin that he gave to DaCosta and that eventually served as a basis for the patent filings in this case.
AdExchanger
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Black Friday Will Be Quite Rosy: Holiday Spending Forecast From Consumer Spend Data | AdExchanger

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It's no secret the holiday season is a key sales period for retail, travel and many other industries.This season can make or break a business, large or small.
www.cbc.ca
1 year ago
Toronto

Riders are coming back but transit agencies warn they're not fully up to speed after COVID-19 | CBC News

Two of Ontario's biggest public transit agencies say they're seeing a welcome uptick in ridership after two years of dismal demand, but they warn there's still a long way to go before they can fully recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Medium
1 year ago
UX design

Holistic design: a sustainable way forward?

Although marvelous as is, the work of architects in the early 20th century was still limited to buildings.Holistic design applied to architecture is easy to imagine, and has been exemplified in other articles, such as this one from Interaction Design Foundation.But, what if we take a few steps back?
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