The most popular coffee store Starbucks is expanding its partnership with Uber Eats to more than 2,000 stores in the United States next year, about a quarter of all of the company’s locations in the country. Starbucks first launched its program, Starbuck Delivers, as a pilot in September, serving people in Miami and Tokyo. Its […]
Cloud computing platform DigitalOcean has reportedly launched its Kubernetes-as-a-service offering to all developers across the world starting today. However, the service is still limited with general availability expected in early 2019 with additional new features. DigitalOcean had first announced its container offering through an early access program in May this year and DigitalOcean claimed that 30,000 developers and teams signed up […]
Soon after cab aggregator Lyft applied for nearly 2019 initial public offering, Uber is on the same path and the company issecretly planning to file for an IPO, marking the beginning of a race for thetwo ride-hailing giants to the stock markets. Most recently,Uber’s private market valuation was a whopping $72 billion value. Founded in2009, […]
The ride hailing major Uber has promoted Manik Gupta as the chief product officer of the company who has been the interim product lead at Uber since the departure of Daniel Graf in April this year. Prior to that, he ran Uber’s marketplace and maps product teams for three years where he was responsible for creating […]
Soon after ride-hailing service Lyft launched its loyalty program, Uber has also come up with Uber Rewards in nine cities before rolling out to the whole U.S. in the next few months, with points for scooters and bikes coming soon. Under this program, riders will earn points for all the money they spend on Uber […]
Food delivery major Uber Eats has entered into an association with cafe chain Café Coffee Day (CCD) to launch a network of virtual restaurants across multiple brands. These will be available for delivery exclusively on Uber Eats. In this partnership, Uber Eats will share data, analytics and insights with CCD to help the latter identify food that […]
With the increasing demand of Ola and Uber these days, an average ride cost on Ola and Uber is up by 15% over the last one year. This has been presented as per estimates by research & advisory firm RedSeer. The company said this comes on top of a 10% increase in 2017. However, the figures that have been stated […]
The cab aggregator Uber has planned for every car on its taxi app in London to be fully electric in 2025, It would also add a clean air fee to each trip from early next year. The rapidly-expanding firm is simultaneously trying to appease regulators in key markets such as London, with initiatives such as […]
The ride-hailing major Uber has come up with VoIP calling feature on its app which will allow users to call the driver (and vice-versa) over Wi-Fi. Thus, the next time you travel via Uber, you can book a ride without having a SIM card connection as well. This might really be helpful if the users wish […]
The global cab aggregator Uber has been growing at a great pace since its launch. The company is therefore, expected to be valued at valued at $120 billion when it finally goes public next year. According to the Wall Street Journal, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley delivered the valuation proposals to Uber last month. Currently, the proposed valuation of the […]
Google’s digital payments platform Google Pay has partnered with Uber to let users pay for their Uber rides easily and seamlessly in India. Initially, the company has an offer in which users can also avail up to Rs. 1,000 when they use Google Pay for 10 Uber rides. This may toughen the competition for other payment […]
The two largest ride hailing services in India that are Ola and Uber, are witnessing a sharp slowdown in the growth of rides over the past year. This is the result of their steer toward operational efficiencies, cut customer discounts and driver incentives, and expand into newer verticals such as food delivery. Though the absolute […]