Tag: Uber
US: New suit filed against Uber for misclassifying drivers
Uber Technologies is facing a lawsuit that claims the ride-hailing company is misclassifying drivers in California as independent contractors in order to save money.
According...
US: Toyota ties up with Uber
Toyota is gearing up to invest US$500 million in ride-hailing company Uber as part of a deal to work on self-driving vehicles with an...
Philippines: Grab-Uber merger approved
The Philippines' antitrust regulator on Friday, August 10, approved Grab's takeover of Uber's Southeast Asian business, but imposed antimonopoly measures against the ride-hailing service...
Singapore: Grab defends Uber deal
On Friday, July 27, Grab stated that it disagreed with the Singaporean anti-monopoly watchdog’s assessment that its takeover of Uber’s operations had harmed competition...
Singapore: Ryde calls Grab-Uber merger ‘detrimental’
Echoing the sentiment that the merger decreased competition was Ryde which told the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS) that it disagreed with...
Brazil: CADE dismisses Uber claims
Brazil’s competition authority has ruled that taxi drivers did not bring sham litigation and coordinate threats against Uber drivers in an attempt to drive...
Middle East: Uber is in talks with Careem to merge
Uber Technologies is in preliminary talks with rival Careem to combine their Middle Eastern ride-hailing services, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing three people familiar...
Market definition in a rapidly changing (digital) world: the case of...
June 2018
CPI Europe Column edited by Anna Tzanaki (Competition Policy International) & Juan Delgado (Global Economics Group) presents:
Market definition in a rapidly changing (digital) world: the case of...
India: CCI dismissed allegations of anti-competitive practices made against Ola and...
Fair trade regulator CCI has dismissed allegations of anti-competitive practices made against Ola and Uber with respect to common ownership in them, saying there...
US: Uber is sizing up bike-share acquisitions
Uber is reportedly looking into buying Motivate, the company that makes Ford GoBike’s in the San Francisco Bay Area and Citi Bike over on...