California lawmakers reach deal with Uber, Lyft that would allow drivers to unioniseCalifornia Gov Gavin Newsom and lawmakers struck a deal with Uber and Lyft allowing 800,000 drivers to unionise while remaining independent...
30 Aug, 2025, 04.24 PM IST
Uber, Lyft drivers strike across US, demanding fairer payWorkers say the rideshare and food delivery platforms are taking disproportionate sums from their fares as fees, hurting their earnings. Th...
15 Feb, 2024, 09.34 AM IST
Thousands of US Uber and Lyft drivers plan Valentine's Day strikesThousands of ride-hailing workers in the US are set to strike at major airports on Wednesday, in what organisers claim will be their larges...
14 Feb, 2024, 11.04 AM IST
Uber, Lyft, DoorDash drivers in the US to strike on Valentine's Day for fair payThe strike call is the first since Uber and Lyft went public in 2019. Drivers will picket outside airports and Uber offices, two of the gro...
13 Feb, 2024, 12.42 AM IST
Attacks on delivery drivers in the US add fears among gig workersRide-hailing and food delivery companies say such violent episodes are exceedingly rare among the millions of trips completed each week, an...
03 May, 2023, 09.54 PM IST
California court upholds Uber, Lyft drivers being contractorsThe ruling came as a victory for ride-share firms and food-delivery app platforms that backed a measure called Proposition 22 ahead of its ...
14 Mar, 2023, 03.52 PM IST
US Labor Department proposes rules to reclassify contractors as employeesEarlier in September this year, US President Joe Biden discussed a tentative railway labour agreement with Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh.
12 Oct, 2022, 12.31 AM IST
Uber, Lyft spend big, win in California vote about driversThe titans of the so-called gig economy bankrolled the most expensive ballot measure in state history, which was decided Tuesday with 58% o...
04 Nov, 2020, 06.14 PM IST
California sues Uber, Lyft over misclassifying drivers as contractorsUber in a statement said it will contest the action in court, while pushing for the implementation of its own proposal for additional drive...
06 May, 2020, 11.53 AM IST
Lyft founders trade their animal costumes for a stage at NasdaqIf Silicon Valley is the fusion of two separate ideological strands, Uber and Lyft positioned themselves on different ends of the spectrum.
05 Mar, 2019, 09.42 AM IST
Ola met London transport regulator last year as Uber's rivals muscle in to lure passengersEU’s top court in December ruled Uber must be regulated as a transportation service, a blow to the company’s attempts to avoid taxi rules.
09 Jan, 2018, 11.45 AM IST
Lyft raises $1 billion from big new ally in battle with UberThe funding marks a major shift in Alphabet's allegiances away from Uber, and suggests a tighter pairing of its Waymo autonomous vehicle te...
20 Oct, 2017, 10.42 AM IST
Lyft releases first diversity report, showing edge over UberLyft said 18 percent of its tech workers are women, compared with just more than 15 percent at Uber.
02 Jun, 2017, 11.32 AM IST
Juno, a ride-hailing startup, wants to kill Uber with kindnessJuno has had early success, although it is still a very small player compared to Uber and Lyft , Uber's biggest US competitor.
27 Oct, 2016, 10.14 AM IST
Uber and Lyft want to replace public busesOver the past several years, ride-hailing companies and local government officials have often had an uneasy, sometimes outright hostile rel...
16 Aug, 2016, 12.23 PM IST
Uber joins Alipay to allow Chinese tourists pay in yuanThe option has been expanded to more than 400 cities in 68 countries and regions in which Uber operates, state-run Xinhua news agency repor...
04 May, 2016, 04.46 PM IST
How Uber is running up the scandal metreThe company, valued at $18.2 billion, has been mired in one controversy after another and is turning into a punching bag.
20 Nov, 2014, 12.09 PM IST