Uber’s Sexual Harassment: The Movie is on its way
In February this year, Uber was rocked with a sexual harassment scandal that resulted in the eventual resignation of founder Travis Kalanick as CEO — and soon we’ll see it play out in theatres. Susan J...
View ArticleCape Town’s new buses will be all-electric come 2025
Cape Town, along with 11 other major world cities, has vowed to shirk purchasing fossil fuel-powered buses in favour of electric models for its inner city transport networks by 2025. The cities, which...
View ArticleUber debuts its very own credit card
Tech companies very rarely remain in their niche. Over time, we’ve seen Google become a hardware company, Microsoft transform into a creator of Android apps, and now Uber is introducing a credit card....
View ArticleJohannesburg highways disrupted by metered taxi protest, Uber cars torched
Traffic along Gauteng’s R24 route was brought to a standstill this morning, after metered taxi drivers parked their cars on the road in protest. The R24 and R21 are two of Johannesburg and the East...
View ArticleUberEATS now available in Durban’s northern suburbs
UberEATS is now available in Durban, the company announced Friday. After launching in Johannesburg last year November, and stretching to Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Pretoria this year, the food...
View ArticleUber Driver app adds ‘no thanks’ button, rating protection & more
Uber has been in the news a fair bit recently, from protests involving metered taxis to UberEATS finally launched in Durban. But the company’s latest set of tweaks is aimed at improving operations for...
View ArticleTaxify launches in Port Elizabeth, its fourth South African city
Estonian on-demand transport company Taxify has this weekend began operations in its fourth South African city, Port Elizabeth. Its service has previously been available in Cape Town, Durban and...
View ArticleUber’s wildly odd ad will resonate with Capetonians stuck in traffic daily
Uber’s first advertisement highlighting the plight of commuters in southeast Asia may just trigger a nerve for those stuck in traffic in Cape Town and Johannesburg daily. Filmed in Bangkok with 200-odd...
View ArticleNASA, Uber are serious about bringing flying taxis to cities by 2023
In an unlikely partnership, NASA has sought the services of Uber to build air control software that will manage the flying taxis of the future. Yes, flying taxis. The partnership, announced today at...
View ArticleUberEATS adds five-star ratings, tweaks recommendations and faves
A star rating system, personalised recommendations and an improved layout for favourites is heading to the UberEATS app, the company announced Thursday. In similar vein to Uber’s five-star rating...
View ArticleUber-rival Lyft goes international, expands to Toronto
For the first time in its history, on-demand ride-hailing company Lyft will expand to a city beyond the United States. On Monday the firm announced plans to jump the northern border to Canada. It’s...
View ArticleLondon’s red buses to run on coffee waste
London’s iconic red buses will soon assimilate into the lives of Londoners by running, at least partially, on coffee. On Monday this week, a company called Bio-bean teamed up with oil giant Shell to...
View ArticleThis Indian airport handled close to 1000 flights in a single day
We’re not sure what you were up to Friday night, but an airport in India had no time for partying. In fact, Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport this weekend broke the record for the most number of flights...
View ArticleBrett Herron live-tweets ‘horrific’ Metrorail journey across Cape Town
How difficult is it to take a train from Khayelitsha to Cape Town on a Thursday morning? Very. At least that’s what MayCo member for transport Brett Herron discovered today. Live-tweeting his morning...
View ArticleUber settles medical record lawsuit with woman raped by driver
Uber has capped off its terrible 2017 by settling a lawsuit with a woman who accused top executives of illegally obtaining her medical records after she was raped by a driver in New Delhi, India in...
View ArticleStill using BBM? You can now request an Uber via platform
BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) has seen far better days in emerging markets, as WhatsApp usurps it as the favoured instant messaging platform. That hasn’t stopped a major announcement this week, as BBM...
View ArticleSci-fi gone real: flying cars, commercial space travel and teleportation
Sci-fi gone real is a series that focusses on the extravagant concepts dreamt up in the world of sci-fi, exploring just how close they are to becoming a reality. In this piece, we will be exploring the...
View ArticleNJ man orders a R19 000 Uber after a frat party brain fade
The longest Uber trip ever recorded in South Africa spanned between Cape Town and Durban via Bloemfontein. We’re not sure who this dedicated driver was, nor if the passenger knew that aircraft have...
View ArticleUber launches Incident Response Team ‘call-back’ in South Africa
Uber South Africa now has its own Incident Response Team, the company announced Tuesday. This incident system has been operational as trial since December 2017, however the system is this week live for...
View ArticleUber autonomous car kills pedestrian in Arizona
The autonomous car industry has been dealt a major blow this week. On Sunday, an Uber self driving vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. The 49-year-old pedestrian was reportedly...
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