Lyft
The company announced the a16z co-founder joined the company’s six-person board on Monday just weeks after Lyft hit one million new passengers.
Expect to see semi-autonomous vehicles driving on fixed routes by 2017 in a subscription model.
It failed to find another buyer after GM expressed interest in acquiring the company.
Grab some coffee on your way to work, pick up a friend to take to dinner — all without upsetting your Lyft driver.
11.4 million of those rides were not subsidized.
This broadens the foundation for the company’s future on-demand network of self-driving cars.
Voters rejected a ballot measure that would have let Uber and Lyft set their own rules.
Lyft and Volvo are also involved.
Uber has agreed to help fund the driver association it will set up as part of the settlement.
Here’s the white paper that started it all.
Judge Vince Chhabria thinks the payout isn’t big enough.
Lyft has hired Snaptu founder and former Facebook staffer Ran Makavy to start a new team at the company as the vice president of growth.
The move comes just three months after Lyft rolled out its own proprietary cash-out service called Express Pay.
Disagreement over fingerprint background checks for drivers has led to an upcoming ballot measure.
Dubai-based ride-hail company Careem is in talks to join the world’s largest global ride-hail alliance, which was formalized in early December of 2015.
The rent-without-commitment program with Lyft is only the beginning.
Lyft and GM are rolling out a short-term rental program for Lyft drivers.
It is an acquisition that will aid in the development of autonomous vehicles.
The campaign planned to tap Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and Airbnb.
Lyft is seeing some traction in New York City -- a key market for the company and its competitors.
Although early in her career, she has become the go-to reporter on all things transportation.
Kyle Rudolph is one of a half dozen players who will surprise passengers of Uber’s carpool service throughout the weekend.
The Super Bowl is a chance for hometown apps to market the hell outta themselves.
2016’s first sharing economy showdown.
Lyft won’t have to reclassify its drivers as employees, but Uber still might.
“Car ownership as we know it will change.”
Maven will be mixing some new and old GM projects.
The move affects 33 markets.
Car tech and cancer tech raised major money this past week.
A former hotel exec runs Lyft’s operations during its first-ever CES.
The quiet car-hailing tension surrounding CES.
With this move, the Detroit automaker is admitting that the future is about services and not car sales.
This year’s annual geek confab is all about transportation.
And a former Google X project raised almost $30 million.
Will this new investment by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal give car-sharing service a lift? (Get it?)
Bonuses get dished out by rides rather than by hours.
But don’t expect any negotiated gains in compensation to last because of the nature of the market.
The global ride-hailing wars continue apace.
The anti-Uber force is now four strong.